Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2024

For me, the great thing about working in finance is getting to make decisions that touch all aspects of the organization. Finance really places you at the center of everything, where decisions you make play a pivotal role in sustaining long-term business success. That is, at least, the theory.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In 2024 alone, several high-profile companies, including Dell, AT&T, Ticketmaster and Disney have suffered the consequences of a major breach. In the retail and consumer sectors, the average cost of a security breach was below this average, sitting at $3.91 million and $3.48 million, respectively.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 7, 2025

The value of merchandise being fraudulently returned to retailers hit an all-time-high in 2024 at over $100 billion , up four-fold compared to just four years ago, according to industry sources. Effectively managing returns fraud is crucial for controlling an organization’s costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

One day after announcing the departure of CEO Mark Tritton , Bed Bath & Beyond has named Laura Crossen as its new SVP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, and Susie Kim as SVP of Treasury and Investor Relations. Both appointments are effective immediately.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2025

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping the core of how retail businesses forecast, manage risk, and drive profitability. Customer expectations are growing as supply chains become more complex and margins tighten, forcing finance leaders across Australias retail sector to recognise that data is their most valuable currency.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For example, let’s look at NBC’s Sunday Night Football, the top-ranked show in primetime for 13 years straight. More importantly, retailers need to bring their finance teams in early to keep updating the numbers and reworking them throughout the season as needed. However, it’s not only about time management.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As economic pressures and living costs surge, more people than ever are considering using point-of-service (POS) finance — such as buy now, pay later and installment loans — to manage their cashflow. It’s clear that there is a consumer-driven need for more flexible finance and smarter buying power. .

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study of more than 4,700 consumers from Bread Financial indicates payment choices — including retail store credit cards, bank branded credit cards and buy now, pay later (BNPL) — at checkout have become a major factor in pleasing shoppers and closing a sale. Is it Great Service or Great Financing Options?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 23, 2025

The founding Ito family of Seven & I Holdings failed to secure financing for a US$58 billion management buyout in February, sending its shares plunging 11.7 Dacus, who previously held executive roles at Walmart and Fast Retailing, will succeed Ryuichi Isaka on May 27. Other investors have privately echoed similar sentiments.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Same goes for the services Alibaba is building to stay competitive: financing solutions, fulfillment services, AI tools to make the process of using the platform easier, localized warehousing to speed up delivery. at least), Alibaba isn’t competing with the other big names, it’s feeding them. Sounds familiar, right?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2023

After purchasing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of successful beauty brands and platforms, the business – valued at $860 million five years ago – is now worth about $36 million. The post BWX shares suspended from trading as lifeline financing sought appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2021

Bed Bath & Beyond has named John Barresi as SVP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, as the retailer continues to bolster its leadership team as part of its three-year transformation strategy. Barresi will join Bed Bath & Beyond on June 7, 2021, reporting directly to EVP and CFO Gustavo Arnal.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2025

McDonalds Australia CEO and managing director Antoni Martinez is leaving the Golden Arches after nearly 20 years with the fast food giant and almost than three years in the leadership role. Chiczewski joined McDonalds in 2012, and has held several roles in strategy, finance, and operations.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 8, 2021

Fine jewellery retailer Fairfax & Roberts has a long history of connecting with consumers at some of life’s biggest milestones. Here, managing director Irene Deutsch shares an insight into her own career journey, lessons learned from the past year and the ways the brand is staying relevant with the modern consumer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2024

There’s an inventory sweet spot you’re always looking to achieve — not overstocking, not understocking, and still managing to keep up with changing buyer demands. Learning to master your inventory management processes can net significant bottom-line results in your ecommerce business. 4: Identifying inventory: Mislabeling items.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Financial services company Hilco Global and asset management firm TPG Angelo Gordon have formed a new joint venture (JV), with the goal of acquiring and financing consumer brands and IP in partnership with brand management firm Bluestar Alliance. and managed by Bluestar since 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Since its founding in 2014, Boll & Branch has evolved from an online direct-to-consumer (DTC) business to a complete omnichannel organization that has a presence on Amazon , at major retailers like Bloomingdale’s and Nordstrom , as well as branded brick-and-mortar stores nationwide.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Partner at accounting firm Pitcher Partners Mark Harrison believes rising interest rates can also make it harder for retailers to obtain finance, as businesses are assessed as having a lower capacity to borrow funds. When we look at sales numbers, we saw quite a lot of money in the economy through the Covid-19 window.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Our customers look to Davids for all things wedding and planning, and Pearl Media Network will now allow advertisers to authentically capture our audiences, tapping into consumers during the household formation a true first for the industry, said Elina Vilk, Chief Business Officer at Davids Bridal in a statement.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Managing money is a skill that transcends the boundaries of work and personal – what works well in one area applies equally well to the other. Hence why employers are increasingly looking to teach their staff – particularly younger ones – how to better manage money. Also look at their current role and future career.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

Franchise Group has offered to acquire the retailer for $60 per share , which would value the company at approximately $8 billion. The exclusive period was set to allow Franchise Group and its financing partners to finalize their due diligence and financing arrangements before the parties enter into a binding agreement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2021

A Crisis at Traditional Retail. Online sales continue to explode, and many retailers are slow to the party upgrading old buildings into attractive, energy-efficient buildings that enhance the overall customer experience at retail. How is this managed? As we say at Budderfly, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

However, this expansion brings to light a critical issue for CFOs and finance teams: the intricate and often underestimated task of recognizing and booking revenue in the ecommerce domain. We have witnessed these challenges firsthand at Crew Finance. Simply put, it must capture and report on an accrual basis versus cash basis.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With over 220 stores across the UK, Matalan is reinforcing its leadership team to drive its property and finance strategy as it continues delivering value to customers in an evolving retail landscape. James Dorling joins Matalan as Director of Property, tasked with managing and optimising the retailer’s expansive store network.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Amazon is offering its merchants a new financing option that gives marketplace sellers access to funds in the form of a cash advance on future sales. based businesses that have been selling on Amazon for at least three months, and will expand to hundreds of thousands of eligible sellers by early 2023.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

In doing so it crossed a milestone of 1bn of Start Up Loans financing for start up and early stage businesses. Liang Zhang, co-founder of Robin Valley, said: When we applied for the Start Up Loan, we didnt own any property in the UK, which made accessing traditional forms of finance difficult.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

“As a result of Anne’s guidance through the pandemic, Nordstrom has the financial strength and flexibility to successfully manage through a changing environment,” said Erik Nordstrom, CEO of Nordstrom in a statement. Maher has more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience and joined Nordstrom in 2009 as controller.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Currently head of digital analytics and optimisation at GPC Apac, the parent company of automotive retailers Repco and Napa Auto Parts Van Bruggen studied design at university and is entirely self-taught when it comes to data. Her natural affinity for detail has aided her career progression from e-commerce manager to data expert.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Gordon Brothers is most commonly known for its work helping companies through bankruptcy, handling things like restructuring, financing and asset liquidation. But recently, a lesser-known division of Gordon Brothers found itself in the spotlight when the company sold the iconic British brand Laura Ashley to brand management firm Marquee.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 11, 2024

New Ebay Cash Advance Offers Sellers Fast Access to up to $1 Million Ebay has launched a new Business Cash Advance offering, a revenue-based financing product that will give eligible U.S. The new financing option, part of Ebay Seller Capital , is being offered in partnership with embedding finance platform Liberis. “As

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365 Retail

JANUARY 11, 2025

With car finance options at carmoney.co.uk , prospective buyers can discover tailored plans designed for eco-friendly automobiles. The spreading the cost across a number of manageable payments makes electric or hybrid cars more affordable. The vehicle is completely owned by the buyer at the end of the term.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Yet we still saw an appetite amongst retailers for investing in technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiencies across operations, finance and compliance obligations. We sat down with leading retail finance experts from The Reject Shop, Forever New, Taking Shape and Vinomofo to find out.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Walmart will offer buy now, pay later (BNPL) options at self-checkout kiosks in more than 4,500 U.S. Indeed, until recently most BNPL offerings were relegated to the digital realm, but stores are widely seen as the next big area of expansion for this increasingly popular financing option. year over year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2025

Retail TouchPoints: What topics were really driving conversations at CES? And what I thought was an interesting perspective from Samantha Bukowski [Global Head of Commerce] at GroupM was this concept of head and tail retail media networks. The other thing that I’m seeing at the same time is middle management is getting laid off.

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Retail Gazette

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Sofology boss Emma Dinnis will step down at the end of the month as owner DFS merges its management teams to create a “more simplified structure”. DFS said these roles will join the already established group leaders of HR, IT, finance and distribution teams “to bolster a vastly experienced group operations leadership team”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Macy’s board of directors has unanimously agreed to terminate buyout discussions with Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management following months of negotiations that included several bid increases and a board proxy battle. in a statement. “At

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Japan’s Seven & I Holdings said on Thursday the retailer’s founding Ito family could not secure the financing required for a US$58 billion management buyout, and it would consider a rival offer from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard. Couche-Tard had offered $38.5

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