Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

Searches for Coachella start spiking at the beginning of the year on Pinterest and nearly half of those searches are driven by Gen Z, said Sara Pollack, VP of Global Consumer Marketing at Pinterest in a statement. This gives us an early peek into what trends are likely to pop this festival season.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2025

International fashion brand Mango is implementing a new AI software platform to transform its planning and decision-making. Operating nearly 2,850 stores in 120 markets, Mango must dynamically navigate demand fluctuations, evolving consumer preferences and supply chain complexities.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 8, 2025

The season also marked the continuation of trends first seen during Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, with Black Friday setting the tone for a practical and planned-out festive period. Early promotions captured a significant share of the festive budget, allowing consumers to plan purchases while taking advantage of discounts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The Sussan Group, the retail collective behind women’s fashion brands Sportsgirl, Sussan and Suzanne Grae, is incorporating “responsible fibres” into its supply chain and investing in futuristic pilot projects, such as making a compostable T-shirt, as it looks to increase consumer awareness of its sustainability initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Active and lifestyle fashion brand Fabletics is expanding into Mexico through a partnership with Liverpool , an omnichannel retail group that has more than 177 years of operating experience in the country. Canada, the UK and Europe, with plans to expand into Central America, South America, Australia and the Middle East.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 10, 2025

When brands like Target and Amazon announced they would deprioritize company DEI efforts, social media erupted with boycott threats and planned blackouts. Conversely, companies like Costco doubled down on DEI efforts , and social media feeds became filled with consumers signing up for memberships. While 73% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2025

Target has partnered with Kate Spade New York to create an extensive limited-time collection of more than 300 fashion, home and entertaining products. Our teams worked together for two years to create this collection, and I cant wait for consumers to see everything we have to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These new second-screen shopping experiences will be powered by Shopsense AI, which offers an AI-driven retail media platform that allows consumers to shop while consuming content. Etalk, Canadas longest running entertainment news program, will unveil a shoppable experience that features accessible fashion inspired by celebrities.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2024

Ebay is launching a “Pre-Loved Fashion Week” in tandem with the upcoming New York and London fashion events that will feature a live, shoppable runway show of pre-owned designer looks. Ebay has been a driving force in promoting more sustainable fashion,” said Kirsty Keoghan, General Manager of Fashion at Ebay.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

store last month , with another five in development and plans to eventually operate 50 locations in the region. The Steve Madden board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction, which the company plans to fund with a combination of committed debt financing and cash on hand.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Most recently, when fashion and accessories retailer Primark unveiled its 450 th store worldwide at the Florida Mall in Orlando, it announced it would have an entire floor dedicated to its growing partnership with Disney — a new kind of experience for the blossoming retailer, although certainly not the last.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 17, 2025

In 2023, Foot Locker CEO and president Mary Dillon announced the launch of Foot Lockers multi-tiered revival plan, Lace Up. Our ‘Lace Up’ plan will create pathways for growth in both our areas of historic strength and our opportunity areas for the future, said Dillon. Even though Q4 sales were down by 5.8 per cent. .

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. Price-sensitive products suffered a drop in demand as consumers struggled to shoulder the rising cost of tariff-stricken goods.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

As an occasional buyer and seller of second-hand fashion, I’ve been watching the trend with interest. The shift towards thrifting (a more circular economy) seems like a win-win – good for consumers, brands, and the planet. But at the end of the day, whether you’re buying second-hand or brand-new, you’re still buying and consuming.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Since its founding in 1999, Iroo has set itself apart in the fashion sector by offering new collections weekly rather than following the industrys standard seasonal drop. Inside Retail : How has the Taiwanese fashion market changed since Iroo’s inception? IR: Are there plans for further international expansion?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Amazon’s summer Prime Day sales event now serves to kickstart many retailers’ summertime sales and back-to-school marketing efforts, and is generally pivoting marketers’ planning calendars. How will this ultimately impact marketers’ planning calendars, now that we’re past Halloween?

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the last week there has been a raft of updates from fashion retailers, from Primark to M&S. The results have highlighted the different strategies fashion retailers are deploying to stay ahead in a fragmented and challenging market. For the year ending 1 September, it posted a full-year loss of £379m, up from a £296.7m

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

For decades, there have been continued debates surrounding sustainability and the fashion industry’s position in implementing and maintaining a sustainable value chain, where renewable resources from the environment can be continually used and human rights are protected. Start With the Supply Chain. An Eco-Conscious Journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

She led a brand refresh for the fast fashion retailer, focusing on younger consumers with a social-media-first approach to customer engagement. Co-founder Thomas Vellios will continue as Chairman of the Five Below board and work with the executive team to drive the retailers strategic priorities. For its Q3 2024, which ended Nov.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

2025 marks a year of accelerated growth, with a strong focus on premiumisation, direct-to-consumer expansion, and a broader lifestyle offering beyond denim. While we are well-known for being a mens denim bottoms business, as we focus on winning with women consumers, we can extend that authority into categories such as womens apparel and tops.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

But the merchant was suffering from a bit of an image problem that made it seem fusty and old-fashioned, a situation that led to a companywide turnaround plan initiated in 2020. In the words of Paula Mitchell, Digital General Manager, We wanted consumers to think of Freedom not as your mums brand but as your best friends brand.

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Inside Retail

MAY 24, 2024

While established fashion brands are attempting to find solid ground in the current economic downturn, a new guard of Australian designers are trying to get their foot in the door. Fashion is an industry that worships breakthrough talent but gaining access to the necessary resources to innovate and disrupt is half the battle.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2024

This will be the global online fashion retailer’s seventh Australian pop-up and is set to showcase its extensive range of on-trend, affordable and size-inclusive collections. The autumn and winter ranges available to Perth consumers will include, but not be limited to Shein’s Curve, Icon, Clasi, Vcay and Prive collections.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Between the tariff tug-of-war, flailing markets, insanely high egg prices and general twitchiness (as one strategist put it), consumers have gotten a bit hard to nail down lately. Here’s what some of the leading minds in retail say consumers need now. One thing is clear its not AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The new store concept was unveiled at Carters first flagship in Atlanta this past October, with plans to expand the concept nationwide by 2026. A revamped product assortment that leans into trend-forward products and styles mimicking parents’ personal styles, including mini me versions of fashionable items.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Myer’s acquisition of Premier Investments’ Apparel Brands appears to be the next step in Olivia Wirth’s plan for the department store’s loyalty program, Myer One. Yet, their adaptability, continued consumer focus, and strategic acquisitions have positioned them as a resilient force in Australian fashion retail today.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

JCPenney has partnered with disabled writer and athlete Jamey Perry on a line of fashionable, functional apparel for women who use wheelchairs. 9 at the Runway of Dreams Fashion Revolution show at New York Fashion Week. 9 at the Runway of Dreams Fashion Revolution show at New York Fashion Week.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. Laura Ashley now joins Marquees slate of consumer brands, which includes Martha Stewart , Sur La Table , BCBG , Destination Maternity and Dakine.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 12, 2025

Puma on Wednesday announced job cuts and warned of uncertain US consumer demand as the German sportswear group’s shares slumped 23 per cent in the wake of disappointing quarterly and annual forecasts issued a day earlier. The post Puma plans job cuts as US demand weakens, outlook dims appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 21, 2024

Fashion has embraced technology at every turn from social media to virtual change rooms, yet consumers’ wardrobes have remained analogue. I wanted to build something to reshape our relationship with our wardrobes and rewire how we experience fashion,” she added.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Window shopping is about to get a whole lot more exciting, with Australian designer fashion brand Oroton launching augmented reality try-on mirrors across the window displays of its stores in Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building and Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall. We want to grow, learn, and evolve alongside our customers’ shopping behaviours.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss started Rent the Runway , they wanted to disrupt the fashion industry. Now, as the company’s 15th birthday nears, Hyman has unveiled her plans to “reinvigorate” the business heading into 2025 and beyond. Because we’re not actually thinking about what the consumer wants.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Silk Laundry’s builds upon strong American consumer base According to Anderson, the brand’s US bricks-and-mortar expansion was all but inevitable. The CEO also revealed that the brand plans to host a pop-up in a major US city every six to 12 weeks over the next 12 to 18 months. This is the brand’s second pop-up in the Big Apple.

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A1 Retail

JANUARY 21, 2025

The new collection, which has been developed with award-winning adaptive fashion designer and disability campaigner,Victoria Jenkins, founder of Unhidden, will be available from Tuesday 28th January in 31 stores nationwide and through the 113 UK stores offering Click & Collect.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Industries such as fashion, for example, face significant customer stakeholder pressure as well as complex, decentralized supply chains with the heavy burden of Scope 3 emissions (approximately 96% of the sector’s total). The retail sector faces significant challenges in achieving sustainability. Our research highlights that U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

“Leveraging the authenticity and cultural influence of creators is vital to engaging the consumers we serve at Foot Locker,” said Holly Tedesco, VP of Marketing for North America at Foot Locker in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The retailer also has signed leases for planned new stores in four locations: Potomac Mills in Woodbridge, Va.; The new retail stores will total more than 128,000 square feet of retail selling space, offering the latest fashion trends and essentials as well as homewares and beauty items. Mall at Prince George’s in Hyattsville, Md.;

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