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Barneys Returns to Brick-and-Mortar with Limited-Time NYC Pop-Up

Retail TouchPoints

It’s not a mirage; Barneys is returning to NYC, but only temporarily. The iconic retailer will go back to its SoHo roots with a five -week pop-up facilitated by beauty brand Hourglass. It’s a symmetrical turnaround: the Hourglass brand debuted at the famed department store two decades ago.

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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

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. Meanwhile, Dixon believes Supreme can still prosper if EssilorLuxottica allows them to operate independently and doesn’t manage it with an FMCG mindset.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Department stores get their name from the fact that they contained specialized stores-within-stores where experts in particular products — jewelry, clothing and cosmetics — would interact with customers to ensure that they got the correct products.

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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. But the brand’s problems predate Debenhams’ demise in 2020.

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As Ted Baker store closures begin, what went wrong?

Retail Gazette

Ted Baker is set to close 15 UK stores and cut some head office roles, as administrators take action to try to save the fashion brand. ABG said that NODL had ended up with “a significant level of arrears” run up under AARC, the Dutch firm it had hired to run Ted Baker’s stores and ecommerce operations in the UK and Europe.