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Forever 21 Finds New Home at JCPenney

Retail TouchPoints

A new range of Forever 21 fashions has debuted at 100 JCPenney stores across the U.S. The move marks the latest bid by the perennially challenged department store chain to turn around, by bolstering its appeal with teens and young adults. The brands also share owners. and online.

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Myer’s profit declines amid store closures, underperformance of some brands

Inside Retail

Myer saw a decline in net profit in the last fiscal year due to the underperformance of Sass&Bide, Marcs, and David Lawrence, inflationary pressures, and store closures. The department store chain’s net profit fell 26 per cent to $52.6 million as sales dipped 2.9 per cent to $3.27 million, which accounted for 21.6

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Barneys New York Finds a New Home at Forever 21

Retail TouchPoints

Just in time for New York Fashion Week, the iconic, now defunct luxury department store Barneys New York has made its return to fashion, albeit not in a way that many of the brand’s devotees would have imagined. Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 has released a limited-edition collection featuring the Barneys brand.

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EssilorLuxottica acquires Supreme from VF: attractive deal or risky move?

Inside Retail

per cent of the luxury eyewear market. That said, EssilorLuxottica has strong distribution capabilities and is good at brand management, so Supreme fits better with them than it did with VF,” he said. The advantage is that the streetwear label is backed by an investor who is performing and knows global markets.

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Guess?, WHP Global Team Up to Buy Rag & Bone

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has partnered with the global brand management firm WHP Global — which owns the Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us brands as well as a stake in Express — to acquire the New York-based fashion brand Rag & Bone. Rag & Bone currently operates 34 stores in the U.S. 2025 fiscal year, in March 2025.

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Time to De-Uberize: the Hidden Power of Live Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

Most of them, of course, achieved their initial success through the use of creative advertising and storytelling, often in mass-market print and television. However, that’s not the aspect of their brands that consumers are craving today. Brand managers can write a script, cast their agents and create a performance.

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As Ted Baker closes its remaining stores, what went wrong?

Retail Gazette

NODL licenses the brand in the UK and Europe from Authentic Brands Group (ABG), the brand management group which owns Reebok, Forever 21 and David Beckham which bought Ted Baker for £211m in October 2022. You need innovation and newness in brands like Ted Baker,” says Shuttleworth.