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Batteries Plus Hires New Marketing and Merchandising Chief as it Plans 115 New Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Batteries Plus has hired Derek Detenber as its new Chief Marketing and Merchandising Officer. In the role of CMMO, Detenber will lead teams across omnichannel marketing, design, category and merchandising to tell the Batteries Plus story. .

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Marquee Adds Laura Ashley to Brand Portfolio

Retail TouchPoints

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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Fashion insiders weigh in on the uncertain future of Australian Fashion Week

Inside Retail

“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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Taylor Swift offers a masterclass in marketing. Here’s what retailers can learn

Inside Retail

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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Payless Relaunches E-Commerce Business, Plans To Open 300-500 Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Payless, which has dropped the “ShoeSource” from its name, plans to open 300 to 500 freestanding stores across North America over the next five years, beginning with the opening of a prototype store this fall in Miami. We saw an opportunity for the brand to relaunch into the U.S.

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Authentic Brands, Owner of Forever 21 and JCPenney, Files for IPO

Retail TouchPoints

Authentic Brands Group (ABG) — which has made a name for itself by scooping up bankrupt retail brands such as Forever 21 , JCPenney , Aéropostale and Brooks Brothers and bringing them back to life through licensing — is planning to go public. In June 2020, ABG also bought fellow brand management company PVH Corp. ’s

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Hilco, TPG Form Joint Venture to Acquire Struggling Brands, Beginning with Bebe and Brookstone

Retail TouchPoints

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. Both brands have been owned by Bebe Stores, Inc.

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