Retail Focus

APRIL 13, 2021

Interstore | Schweitzer has created and implemented the new 2000 m² BRIDGE market Flexstore concept in Zurich for the largest Swiss retail company, Migros. BRIDGE market has been conceived as the connector between a diverse fresh food market, creative catering with products from local partners and a wide range of events.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The sale is the latest move by the retailer to scale down during a difficult year that included cutting 500 corporate positions in September 2022, including roles at main offices in Asia. Baozun recently established Baozun Brand Management (BBM), through which it will use its technology portfolio to cultivate brands.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2023

The collaboration also extends to Skechers t-shirts, leggings, shorts and racerback longline bras, and marks the brand’s first coordinated apparel and footwear collaboration. He added that Skechers is the third largest athletic footwear brand in the US, and has a global reach in over 180 countries with over 4500 stand-alone stores. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

“Heroes & Villains is and always has been a fan-focused brand. Celebrating the stories we all love is the first priority for us,” explained Doug Johnson, Creative Director and Brand Manager at Bioworld, parent company of Heroes & Villains in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. So, we pivoted,” Johnson noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Brand management firm Marquee Brands has acquired British fashion and lifestyle label Laura Ashley and will use the acquisition to establish its first European headquarters in London. Marquee bought the brand from Gordon Brothers , which acquired Laura Ashley out of bankruptcy in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

Brand management firm WHP Global has received a $375 million equity investment from funds managed by the private equity group of Ares Management Corporation to fuel its next wave of brand acquisitions. The transaction values WHP at $1.6 this summer. this summer.

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Wiser

MAY 21, 2024

Maintaining an effective distribution network is not only costly but paramount for ensuring products move seamlessly from the brand to the consumer. The allure of parallel imports for shoppers, with their often competitive prices and unique styles not typically available in the domestic market, poses a significant challenge.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 7, 2024

When Domino Pizza Enterprises identified the need for a high-performance, automated digital marketing system that could deliver highly sophisticated customer relationship management, it had the challenge of finding a smart, agile solution that could amplify results at the national and local levels with minimal effort.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Oh great, another screen I need to market on, said no brand manager ever. And yet 2023 may be remembered by C-suite marketing teams everywhere as the year when the not-very-exciting category of digital signage became supercharged thanks to two key elements: retail media networks and first-person data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

Influencer marketing platform Aspire has launched a new “reverse influencer marketplace” that puts creators in the driver’s seat, allowing them to reach out directly to brands and submit content for marketing campaigns. Brands need to look at us more as small businesses.

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Wiser

APRIL 18, 2024

In the dynamic world of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), brand management is a critical function that navigates complex landscapes to connect products with consumers. This is particularly challenging when considering the diverse channels and regions through which products must be marketed.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2022

Winners were celebrated at a cocktail reception during the 2022 Retail Innovation Conference & Expo , held May 10-12 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and they will be spotlighted in a special report scheduled to publish in July 2022. Stay tuned to get incredible lessons and insights from these game-changing executives!

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

They are moving the respondent experience from tiresome box-checking toward free-flowing natural conversations, at speed and at scale. Online surveys can, in theory, be just as effective at hearing the voice of the customer as focus groups or social listening tools. The Online Hearing Problem.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2024

After less than two years at his post, Laxman Narasimhan is stepping as CEO of Starbucks. The iconic and omnipresent Starbucks brand that Howard Schultz and his team built has lost its luster and brand equity over the past ten years,” noted Brandon Rael, Strategy & Operations Leader at Kyndryl on LinkedIn.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

As a result, VF had to write down the value of the brand and sell it at a loss. However, as painful as it is, the disposal is correct as VF needs to focus on its core brands without the distraction of Supreme.” Dixon acknowledged the challenge that VF Corp faced in growing a cult brand like Supreme. million from US$82.4

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Inside Retail

JULY 22, 2024

Earlier this month, Desigual partnered with Melbourne-based brand management firm O’Rourke Showroom to unveil its spring-summer collection, further expanding its retail distribution in Asia Pacific. Growing our existing wholesale partners is the main goal and the genesis of the push for further brand presence in the market.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

“Originally the event has always been based on trade with a consumer event later, and in the last few years we have seen them merging this and not investing in getting overseas buyers to come to Australia,” Phoebes Garland, co-founder of Garland & Garland, a fashion and lifestyle brand management agency, told Inside Retail.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 2, 2024

Social media has become an essential element in modern marketing, not merely something marketers could benefit from having on hand. of the global population, were regular social media users , underscoring its essential nature within your overall marketing plans. By April 2024, 5.07 billion people, or 62.6%

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2023

“We’re a sports company, but I also see us as a movement and wellness company – this means embracing and celebrating all forms of movement and all health journeys, and being your authentic self,” said Liz Weldon, VP of Global Nike Women’s brand management. “We trillion wellness market appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

At the time, founder Dany Milham cited deteriorating economic and capital market conditions as the key reason behind the collapse. Said to have been losing at least $10 per delivery , Milkrun’s demise followed the collapse of other instant delivery startups, including Voly, Send and Colab, in recent months.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The company will still operate its ecommerce site, which directs shoppers to Amazon to make purchases, and license the Toys ‘R’ Us brand to stores in non-U.S. Consumer demand in the toy category and for Toys ‘R’ Us remains strong, and we will continue to invest in the channels where the customer wants to experience our brand.”.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Master franchisee Seagrass Hospitality is opening the long-awaited fast food brand at the Penrith Panthers Leagues Club on the busy Mulgoa Road. Robby Andronikos, brand manager of Five Guys Australia, said “It’s been an incredibly fun journey to bring the Five Guys opening to this point.

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

In celebration of five decades in music, one of the world’s most iconic bands, Queen, will feature in a dedicated experiential pop-up shop at 57 Carnaby Street that opens tomorrow, Tuesday 28th September. The store opens to the public tomorrow morning at 11am with an exclusive launch of a limited edition vinyl of Queen The Greatest Hits.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The company’s total debt at the end of the third quarter was $274.7 million , and Express said at the time that it had engaged advisors to conduct “a comprehensive review of its business model” in order find ways to meaningfully reduce costs. In Q3 2023, which ended Oct. 28, 2023, and was reported on Nov. million in Q3 2022.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 5, 2022

It will continue to evolve the concept that we rolled out last year at Karrinyup and Robina – really open [with] a lot of space to come in and enjoy the store environment and lovely marble finishes and brass finishes throughout the store. So we’ll be looking to expand heavily into SA, WA, and probably the Victorian markets.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

“Helping customers in their online shopping journey is a major advantage in today’s online retail market,” said Richard Adams, VP of Digital Experience at JCPenney in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 18, 2020

Daniel Grieder has stepped down from his post as CEO of Tommy Hilfiger Global & PVH Europe to take on the CEO role at Hugo Boss AG beginning June 1, 2021. Until Grieder begins his tenure, CFO Yves Müller will serve as the Hugo Boss Managing Board’s spokesman. At Tommy Hilfiger, Martijn Hagman has taken over as CEO.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

Brand management firm Authentic Brands Group (ABG) has added another major retailer to its portfolio with the acquisition of beleaguered British fashion chain Ted Baker. Under ABG’s ownership, we believe that Ted Baker is poised for continued growth and success.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2020

We saw an opportunity for the brand to relaunch into the U.S. market, providing our community with the affordable, value-driven products they’ve always searched for, now across multiple categories, at a time when value couldn’t be more critical,” said Jared Margolis, Payless CEO in a statement. “We’re

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement. in November 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Jacob Hawkins knows a lot about Gen Z, not just because he’s spent almost a year as the Chief Marketing, Digital and Omni Officer of Forever 21 , but also because he has a 17-year-old daughter. Here’s one thing he’s learned about that generation, both at work and at home — they want what they want when they want it. “My

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2021

The toy seller, which at its peak had more than 1,500 stores around the world, was part of the fabric of American childhood for more than half a century. brand management company WHP Global has bought a controlling interest in Tru Kids, which owns the Toys ‘R’ Us brand. Remember Toys ‘R’ Us? Most retailers in the U.S.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The latest modest fashion trends were on full display at New York Fashion Week, where six Indonesian designers were invited to present a total of 60 looks under the “Indonesia Now” banner. As an educator at the Parsons School of Fashion, Parry has strong views on diversity, inclusivity and equity in fashion. Here are the highlights.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2021

is selling its Heritage Brands portfolio — which includes the Izod , Van Heusen , Arrow and Geoffrey Beene brands — to fellow brand management firm Authentic Brands Group for approximately $220 million. This sale marks the latest in a broader shakeup among the larger brand management firms.

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Inside Retail

MAY 15, 2022

Sparkling silhouettes, feminine prints on masculine shapes, chic shapes with plenty of thigh – all made their way down the first ever plus size runway at Afterpay Australian Fashion Week last Thursday. Saint Somebody is a modern, luxury swim brand that caters to a market that wants to look and feel expensive, regardless of size.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

What many brands don’t realize is that they have the ability to drill down who their audience is in specific stores or locations by taking a detailed look at customer journey trends. Or is it not being tried on at all? They need to be sure it will sell, and that means understanding different markets.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Senior retail consultant at Univers Retail | Published author | Visiting lecturer. As consumption is becoming less focused on the product and more focused on the experience of accessing the product, new brand management practices are being shaped, whether at luxury or mass industry levels. Ghalia BOUSTANI, PhD.

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