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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Amazon is taking a new approach to its brands, extending beyond its AmazonBasics and other private-label lines: The retailer is rolling out brands that are exclusive to the site, but are not actually owned by the company. At the same time, Perrigo also owns a brand called GoodSense.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Walgreens Boots Alliance and Alibaba Group Holding have announced the launch of a Boots flagship store on Tmall Global , Alibaba’s B2C platform for international brands and retailers. The partnership will offer Boots beauty brands to more than half a billion consumers in China, including No7, Soap & Glory and Boots Cucumber.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are developing in-store experiences to encourage customer loyalty. markets, aiming to generate repeat visits as part of its experiential retail efforts. They also create repeat visits to the DSW brand, where an exciting footwear assortment awaits.”. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. per share.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The firm monitors the list of more than 120 private label Amazon brand products that now includes kitchen goods, clothing, batteries, and electronics. The mattress marks the first time Amazon sold a branded Amazon mattress, noted the report, citing TJI. For Amazon, Wall Street is bullish on its prospects.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

With the decade inching towards its conclusion and shoppers making their last-minute purchases, Mattel CEO CEO Ynon Kreiz says the last holiday toy shopping season of the 2010s has been about “big franchises” and “big brands.” New additions to the Barbie brand encompass the Barbie Dream Plane and Judge Barbie.

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JUNE 29, 2017

In other words, what will make retailers more money – selling in brick and mortar, selling online or a combination of the two. Though the amount of online retailers is astounding, many consumers still prefer to shop in-store. In this piece, we’ll review some of the larger and smaller brands that have taken this concept and run with it.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. The move is one of several that Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Luxury brands are selling more and more on Chinese eCommerce sites like JD.com and Alibaba, while still keeping their distance from Amazon, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The idea of being listed along with batteries and windshield wiper fluid is not one that attracts luxury brands, the Journal reported.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Amid a year in which over 11,000 retail closings have been announced, past Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren foresees that disruption to the retail vertical related to COVID-19 will continue into 2021 and possibly bring about additional closings of stores, CNBC reported. We’re not done yet. Lundgren added, “This movie is not finished.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

retail outfit that sells children’s clothing, is mulling whether to shutter more than half of its 900-store base, Reuters reported Tuesday (Nov. The firm emerged from bankruptcy in 2017, and per the newswire has engaged consulting firm Berkley Research Group to explore its options. Gymboree, the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It was a good holiday season for online retailers in 2017 — particularly Amazon. According to Gartner, online retail sales rose 14.7 percent year-over-year during the 2017 holiday season to $108 billion. Nearly 85 percent of holiday sales were in physical stores in 2017. Amazon was the big winner in that increase.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Simon Property Group has partnered with Retail-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform Guesst on a multi-brand experiential retail concept. And Guesst’s technology will be used for brand onboarding, sales transactions, payments, inventory tracking and data reporting. It’s rivaling what happened in 2017.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Amazon wants “consumer goods companies to create brands exclusively for Amazon after finding that developing them on its own is too costly and time-consuming, according to people familiar with the strategy,” stated a report in The Wall Street Journal.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. Ouai , a hair and body care brand founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, will roll out some of its merchandise in 1,200 Ulta Beauty locations in addition to the retailer’s website on Sunday (Jan.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Heading into the new year, most everyone, retailers included, is looking within to enhance our lives and businesses from knowledge already ascertained and move that understanding forward. In the retail space, experts say the chatbot may be one of the best things a merchant can add in 2017.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. did succeed in raising its 2017 earnings and same-store sales forecasts in November, but those numbers came mostly from Old Navy. percent in the holiday quarter. Brent Hyder, Gap Inc.’s

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Following a less-than-stellar fourth quarter, Newell Brands, which owns well-known brands, such as Calphalon, Sharpie and Yankee Candle, is deciding to shift its focus in 2017. Even though total sales for Newell Brands reached $4.14 billion in the last quarter of 2016, that number fell short of Bloomberg’s $4.27

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega. But the branding came across somewhat differently.

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MARCH 25, 2019

To help meet customer expectations in the digital age, retailers have to know who their shoppers are and what they want. While eTailers already have this information about consumers, brick-and-mortar retailers don’t have this in-depth knowledge. They can also help capture the ages, genders and emotions (in some cases) of shoppers.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Though the exact data of the Amazon annual shopping holiday remains up in the air, analysts are becoming increasingly confident that whenever it actually happens, Amazon’s Private Label brands will likely get a starring role in the show.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

As such, it’s no wonder retailers are starting to focus their efforts on eCommerce at a larger rate. The latest large retailer to make the leap over to the eCommerce side is Newell Brands. billion | Sales reached by Newell Brands in Q4. billion | Bloomberg’s projected sales goal for Newell Brands’ Q4. billion–$14.72

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JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most recent experiments for direct-to-consumer eCommerce is taking place on Instagram , and, if successful, could forge a path for brands that want to sell directly to online consumers. This format created urgency and exclusivity for would-be shoppers — a key tactic for brands and retailers alike to increase conversion.”.

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AUGUST 19, 2019

Target has announced that it’s launching a new private-label food brand called Good & Gather in a move to boost its grocery business, according to a report by CNBC. . The new brand will arrive at Target stores on Sept 15, and Target said by the end of 2020 there will be upwards of 2,000 items being sold by the brand.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As New York City ’s vacancy rate has skyrocketed by nearly 50 percent, a report released by City Comptroller Scott Stringer showed that the amount of empty retail space in the city has doubled in the last 10 years or so. percent in 2017, up from 4 percent in 2007, according to Retail Dive. The vacancy rate reached a high of 5.8

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MAY 7, 2019

As retailers shutter locations from the heartland to big cities, the latest update on the state of retail from New York’s storied Fifth Avenue says that rents are falling and vacancies are rising – showing that even a flagship address can’t escape the realities of modern-day commerce. Davidson Senior Brand Apparel Analyst John D.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Look to China, and look some more — that’s one of the main messages in mid-2019 for luxury retailers, at least for ones not based in the U.S. According to a report from Bloomberg , the luxury brand’s CEO, Michael Burke, “gave a rosy view of its China business, easing concerns about the effects of a trade war with the U.S. Online Push.

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MAY 18, 2018

There is no shortage of direct-to-consumer mattress brands as mattress sales move from brick-and-mortar retail to eCommerce. One brand, though, saw a market opportunity as brands like Casper and Leesa took off. But the brands currently on the market were a useful learning experience for Nectar. The Road Ahead.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017. Connected Commerce.

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JULY 31, 2018

In an effort to extend its brand beyond fabrics, Jo-Ann Stores has shortened the name of its brick-and-mortar stores. The locations, which were previously branded as Jo-Ann Fabrics, are now known as JOANN, AdWeek reported. “We In 2017, Jo-Ann acquired subscription-based online video provider Creativebug for an undisclosed sum.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

2017: The year Target began incorporating Pinterest’s visual search tool. 70 percent : Minimum share of Gen Z consumers who use shoppable feed experiences to learn more about brands. Data: 2019: The year Tommy Hilfiger introduced its visual commerce app via desktop and mobile at tommy.com.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Within China, sales of brands from Gucci to Chanel, which have been sluggish for years, rose at the fastest pace in five years in 2016 and are positioned to consolidate those gains in 2018. 2017 saw a global recovery of the luxury retail market due to their affinity for high-end brands.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Amazon ’s furniture sales are on the move: A One Click Retail study found that the eCommerce retailer has more than tripled sales in that category since 2015. And, in 2017, furniture brought in approximately $4 billion, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. with only groceries ahead of it.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

To top off the decade, the eCommerce retailer had some pretty big ambitions. The eCommerce retailer beat its previous Singles Day record with hours to spare before the holiday concluded on Sunday (Nov. 25), surpassing the 2017 record of $25.3 25), surpassing the 2017 record of $25.3 billion or 213.5

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The retailer said it voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware and is exploring a sale, Fortune reported. Before the announcement, Bon-Ton announced it would shutter 40 out of its 260 brick-and-mortar stores across its various brands.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

To bring higher-end products to its website, Walmart had courted brands like water-filtration company Katadyn for months. As part of its efforts, the retailer gave some brands the opportunity to determine how outside sellers on the its website price and display their products. These brands are objecting because of pricing.

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MAY 8, 2020

Brookfield has been moving in on mall-centric retail for some time, acquiring all of the stake for U.S. In 2020, Brookfield has teamed with Simon and Authentic Brands Group to acquire Forever 21, which was in bankruptcy court. Last year, over 9,000 retail stores closed in the U.S.,

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