Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

But with such an expansive reach — one that extends across its branded channels as well as a robust network of national, regional and local retailers — Fender has sought better ways to understand the behaviors of these consumers and engage with them in more intentional and relevant ways. I mean that at the individual level,” he said.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You don’t have to be a marketing expert to know that Taylor Swift is a bulletproof brand that consistently improves, regardless of the challenges she faces or the challenges she sets for herself. Swift’s brand promise has always centred on quality products. The post Taylor Swift offers a masterclass in marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Forever 21s Twisting Tale of Bankruptcies and Sales Forever 21s intellectual property has been owned by brand management firm Authentic Brands Group since its first bankruptcy in 2019 , and a second bankruptcy would not disrupt that arrangement. If a buyer is not found, a chainwide liquidation is in the cards. In the U.S.,

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

is considering a buyout proposal from brand management firm WHP Global which owns the Toys R Us and Babies R Us brands as well as a stake in Express and Bonobos that would take the lifestyle brand private. shares were trading at market close on March 14. The two companies arent strangers: In 2024, Guess?

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At the time, she was a brand manager at Mecca, so she understood the power of a highly curated and branded shopping environment, and a first-rate customer experience, but she felt like it didn’t exist in the baby goods category.

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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

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.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Baozun recently established Baozun Brand Management (BBM), through which it will use its technology portfolio to cultivate brands. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 8, 2021

Through its SPARC Group joint venture with mall owner Simon Property Group , ABG has acquired companies including Lucky Brand , Nautica , Brooks Brothers , Forever 21 and most recently Eddie Bauer. In June 2020, ABG also bought fellow brand management company PVH Corp. ’s We are brand owners, curators and guardians.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

An affiliate of brand management company Bluestar Alliance has purchased the U.S.-based based wholesale and retail business assets of the Scotch & Soda brand, which will allow its products to be sold in retail stores across the country.

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Tokinomo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s complicated to stay top of mind in a competitive market. Hundreds of brands fighting to attract the attention of shoppers both in-store and online. Depending on their strategies, some brands manage to remain the first choice of thousands of people.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

“He is an accomplished retail leader and brand manager, with significant experience across e-commerce, retail operations, private label development, product management, loyalty, as well as marketing and communications strategy,” Go added.

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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 tour also will feature a number of integrated co-marketing partnerships with brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Food Club , a store brand managed by Topco Associates LLC , is partnering with Hallmark+ on a new campaign that puts its recipes for holiday treats and culinary concoctions front and center.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

In many cases, winners helped bring new solutions, market categories and concepts to market, elevating the standards for success in the retail industry. Nominees were assessed for their business impact as well as their overall contributions to the retail industry. And stay tuned for the deep-dive awards report scheduled to run in July.

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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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Shopperations

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Omnichannel shopper marketing is a dynamic, constantly evolving discipline. It sits in between and overlaps with brand management, sales, e-commerce and media teams. This makes shopper marketing very diverse and full of nuances and gray areas.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2022

Vadim Rogovskiy, Co-Founder and CEO, 3DLOOK Christine Cui, VP of Brand Management, Acquco Taryn Racin, Manager, Store Communications, American Eagle Outfitters Julia Calabrese, Global Design Manager, Workplace and Retail, Ford Motor Co. Stay tuned to get incredible lessons and insights from these game-changing executives!

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The brands also share owners. Simon Property Group bought Forever 21 out of bankruptcy in partnership with fellow mall operator Brookfield Asset Management and brand management firm Authentic Brands Group in February 2020. JCPenney isn’t Forever 21’s first foray into department stores.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Our objective is to identify opportunities to deliver a step-change in Myer’s market position and generate strategic and financial benefits.” The post Myer’s profit declines amid store closures, underperformance of some brands appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2023

Canada Goose is set to make a foray into Australia under a brand management agreement reached with Brand Collective. The brand will roll out retail stores this year in Melbourne and Sydney, and open an e-commerce platform, to be augmented by selected wholesale distribution. The brand’s revenue increased 65.4

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Trends are strong indicators of long-term market influence, customer adoption and retention rates and overall sentiment. Enter advanced analytics, the future of how companies will consume and manage data to drive strategic decisions. Trend/trend/noun. A general direction in which something is developing or changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

WHP Global plans to expand the Express brand to multiple countries in Asia and Latin America through a series of licensing agreements. This marks the first major announcement since the brand management firm announced its strategic partnership with Express, Inc. late last year.

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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. Tru Kids has closed the two Toys ‘R’ Us outlets it opened in 2019, according to Bloomberg.

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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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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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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.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2021

This new generation of online surveys is starting to have a significant impact not only on ad testing but on the entire spectrum of product development and marketing research, from consumer behavior analysis to pricing and brand tracking. Rasto Ivanic is a Co-founder and CEO of GroupSolver ®, a market research tech company.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In these two roles that spanned almost a decade, I honed my skill sets in leading brand strategy and marketing/e-commerce efforts for some of the biggest fashion retailers in the world. How have these roles prepared you to launch and run this company?

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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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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2024

Before becoming CEO he held roles including Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer, and President. He began his career in brand management at Procter and Gamble. Before joining Chipotle, he served as Chief Executive of Taco Bell. He also served in leadership roles at Pizza Hut, another division of Yum!

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