Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Over the course of her expansive career in marketing, Kristen D’Arcy has worked for household names like American Eagle , PacSun , Ralph Lauren and Oscar de la Renta. But she believes that successful marketing revolves around one key thing: understanding your customer and creating the value they expect.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

As we’ve made a strategic shift to become a licensed wholesaler, it’s clear that our long-term growth momentum must be rooted in the success of our strong network of retail partners,” said Leon Bergmann, CEO of Save A Lot in a statement. This acquisition marks the final chapter in the retailer’s wholesale transformation, which began in 2020.

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Inside Retail

MAY 23, 2024

Ralph Lauren has reported a lower growth rate for its fourth-quarter revenue, but an analyst said the brand is still doing well amid a wider slowdown in the luxury market. Neil Saunders, MD of GlobalData, said the moderate growth was in line with expectations given the general trend in the luxury market. “In Sales in Asia were up 1.1

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

But after a lackluster IPO in 2020 , the company retreated from the public market just two years later when it was acquired by private equity firm Durational Capital Management in 2022. RTP: Casper has its roots in DTC, but you’ve since expanded with your own stores and through wholesale. How do you view those channels?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

Achieving this level of personalization and marketing effectiveness is difficult given the range of Fender’s channels and customer touch points. That is an important part of the journey because your wholesale partners aren’t going to give you that data,” he noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

BJ’s Wholesale Club has become the latest retailer to launch a media network, offering brands a comprehensive advertising solution to connect with its members. The new program, called BJ’s Media Edge , is being launched in partnership with Microsoft’s PromoteIQ solution. “We Access real-time analytics and data on their campaigns.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 30, 2024

The bad news was that company CFO Mat Friend admitted that Nike fell short of its plan, telling investors on its June 27 conference call: “We experienced meaningful shifts in consumer traffic in key markets – particularly in Greater China, where brick-and-mortar traffic declined as much as double-digits versus prior year.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To say everyone is worn out is probably an understatement, and by all accounts marketers in particular are feeling the pressure — a staggering 70% of marketing executives said the pandemic has left them “completely exhausted,” according to a new report from Accenture Interactive. Forget About Personalization, Focus on Relevancy.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 23, 2022

Primark is partnering with the Vintage Wholesale Company, an independent vintage clothing business, to open two new concessions in its flagship Birmingham and Manchester stores, under the brand WornWell by the Vintage Wholesale Company. . Riccardo Seaton, Director of WornWell by the Vintage Wholesale Company : . “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

A $68 T-shirt might seem like a tough sell, but eight years on, Molnar’s brand Goodlife C l othing has a host of top-tier wholesale partners, a booming DTC business and, most importantly, a cult following of customers that keep coming back. Product that Delivers on its Promise. Do their customers really keep coming back?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Associated Food Stores (AFS), a wholesaler and cooperative serving nearly 450 supermarkets in the Intermountain West region, has adopted customer engagement, personalization and analytics solutions from Birdzi. We’re honored to earn the confidence from our first wholesale customer.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

BJ’s Wholesale Club will raise its annual membership fees by $5 to $60 per year, and its Club+ fee will rise $10 to $120 per year, effective Jan. Our third quarter results demonstrate the combination of great value and strong execution,” said Bob Eddy, Chairman and CEO of BJ’s Wholesale Club in a statement. “We million members.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

. “Rip Curl and Oboz are recycling record sales last financial year and while revenues from the direct-to-consumer channel for these brands are showing single-digit declines, the wholesale channel has been more challenging as wholesale accounts reduce inventory holdings,” said KMD Brands CEO and MD Michael Daly.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2024

Convenience store chain Casey’s General Stores has agreed to acquire Fikes Wholesale , owner of CEFCO Convenience Stores. Fikes Wholesale and CEFCO began as a single filling station in Cameron, Texas in 1952 and have since grown to encompass 198 stores across multiple states as well as a dealer network.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The non-alcoholic beverage (NA) market is projected to reach $176.7 Big name alcoholic beverage players such as Anheuser-Busch and Diageo will be fighting to get a piece of this pie by bringing new products to market, especially with U.S. billion in 2024. billion in revenue by 2028. You can kind of think of us as the Sephora of NA.”

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 2, 2024

per cent to $479 million and wholesale revenue growing 6.9 By market, Crocs brand’s sales climbed 3 per cent to $489 million in North America and soared 18.7 per cent to $84 million and wholesale revenue plunging 23.5 per cent to $84 million and wholesale revenue plunging 23.5 per cent to $435 million.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

. “Rip Curl and Oboz are recycling record sales last financial year and while revenues from the direct-to-consumer channel for these brands are showing single-digit declines, the wholesale channel has been more challenging as wholesale accounts reduce inventory holdings,” said KMD Brands CEO and MD Michael Daly.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The law, designed to prevent foodborne illnesses by strengthening the ability to track and trace food through all stages of the supply chain, will become mandatory in 2026, but Save A Lot, a discount wholesaler serving approximately 750 independently owned groceries, has committed to being ahead of the curve.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Following the acquisition, all Topshop stores closed and the brands have since operated online only with some wholesale distribution, including at Nordstrom. Analysts have noted that the deal has the potential to open the Topshop and Topman brands to additional wholesale arrangements.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Levi’s also said it would continue to invest in its digital transformation, aiming to automate and digitize key processes to increase customer loyalty, facilitate faster speed to market and create a “simplified, productive work environment.”. This shift to a DTC-first mentality doesn’t mean the end of Levi’s wholesale relationships, however.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

The brand’s overall digital sales also increased 19% globally, while wholesale revenues were down by 1%. A big piece of Nike’s direct offensive has been a shift away from wholesale and toward DTC. Wholesale Will Still Play a ‘Very Important Role’. Revenues were up 5% YoY in the company’s fiscal Q3, which ended Feb.

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Inside Retail

MAY 13, 2024

Barbeques Galore has launched a B2B e-commerce site as it looks to grow its wholesale business both in Australia and overseas. The global B2B e-commerce market was valued at US$7.4 Currently, Barbeques Galore’s wholesale business includes 200 independent distributors in Australia and a growing number worldwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

A leadership revamp is also in the works, with new C-suite appointments in the company’s design, innovation, marketing and tech divisions announced in November 2023. However, currency-neutral wholesale revenues were down 3% to $7.1 Direct sales revenues were up 4% on a currency-neutral basis to $5.7

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Tally robots from Simbe will roam the aisles of five Price Chopper/Market 32 and five Tops Friendly Markets stores through January 2025, when Northeast Grocery will evaluate the pilot results to determine next steps that could include expanding the robots’ deployment to other supermarkets.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Both brands are sold in ANZ through direct-to-consumer, online and owned stores, and via wholesale channels. In addition, Accent distributes Dickies under the Glue brand and to the majority of Dickies consumers through its 2000 wholesale clients. Dickies items are also available at Glue Store, Universal, Iconic, and City Beach.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

The merger involves the largest pharmacy chain by revenue and a key wholesaler to thousands of independent pharmacies, ACCC commissioner Stephen Ridgeway said. “We The ACCC will receive submissions related to the matter from interested parties until June 27.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A number of local and independent grocers — including Bowman’s Market , Maurer’s Market IGA , Neiman’s Family Market , Queen’s Price Chopper and Soelbergs Market — are adopting Instacart ‘s AI-powered smart Caper Carts. At the end of their trip, customers check out directly from the cart.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

While companies are certainly collecting more and more data, data alone can’t drive this level of hyper-personalization — especially not in a traditional wholesale retail model. So let’s take a look at how marketplace and drop ship can be unified into a single flexible, data-driven model for going to market.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

Other assets include Drummond’s interests in 17 company-owned stores and its 66 per cent shareholding in wholesale golf company Golf Works. The company boasts 30 per cent market share with more than 150,000 golfers visiting its stores monthly, while its online store has more than 250,000 visits each month.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vaccarella is no stranger to retail — Bogg has wholesale partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops , among others — and she has mastered a model in which the brand develops exclusive designs tailored to each partner’s shopper base. We started doing trade shows and focused on wholesale. This is just the beginning!

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

Steep Marketing Spend, without Results News of Merris’s departure came as Solo Brands lowered its financial guidance for the 2023 fiscal year: revenue is now expected to be between $490 million and $500 million , which is a modest drop from the company’s previous guidance of between $520 million and $540 million.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Abercrombie & Fitch will expand into India via a multi-year franchise partnership with Myntra Jabong India Private , a B2B wholesale entity owned by fashion and lifestyle retailer Myntra.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

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. Bluestar plans to invest in marketing initiatives to introduce new consumers to the brand and support strong consumer engagement worldwide.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Ted Baker’s wholesale business in the UK and Europe is set to be managed by Pace Partnership London (PPL), under the helm of former Barbour MD Ryan Llewellyn-Pace. Together, we have a very talented and strong team to bring Ted Baker back and towards our vision of making it the leading British lifestyle brand in the market.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Wholesaler Metcash disclosed it has signed three acquisition agreements cumulatively valued at around $558.5 “Metcash is the logical owner of Superior Food, and the acquisition cements our position as the largest wholesaler and distributor of food to independent businesses in Australia.” Metcash agreed to pay up to $412.3

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

Reporting directly to Linnartz, Dausch led global brand, marketing, digital engagement and customer experience across all commerce channels. For the entire fiscal year, Under Armour also reported a revenue drop of 3% , with North America revenue and wholesale revenue suffering the most, with a loss of 8% and 7% respectively.

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