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Online Marketplaces Attract Gen Z
Variety may be the spice of life, but is it the future of online shopping? Signs point to yes: Online retail marketplace sales in the ...
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Online DTC Sales Way Behind Established Brands
Established brands will comprise 79.4 percent of DTC ecommerce sales this year. And that’s not their only advantage: well-known, legacy brands will also grow nine ...
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Guyana: An Emerging Global Retail Hub
Note: This is part one of an ongoing series on emerging retail economies. Just off the North Coast of South America, tucked in between Venezuela, ...
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e.l.f. on a Meteoric Trajectory
Multiple birds, one stone. In snapping up Naturium Skincare for $355 million in cash and stock, e.l.f. Beauty furthered its agenda in a number of ...
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Going Local Requires More than a Strategy
As retail chains have gotten ever larger – stretching into the hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of units – management at the country’s ...
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Earth to Best Buy: Resurrect Your One-Upmanship Over Apple
Best Buy has gone through several strategic iterations not only to survive but also to flourish. CEO Corie Barry (since 2019) succeeded Hubert Joly following ...
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Coach and Michael Kors: An Eddie Lampert Echo?
Oh noooo! Are we going there again? No, I’m not going back to my years of ranting about Eddie Lampert, the brilliant financier who acquired ...
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Lego: Building an Empire Brick by Brick
It wasn’t all that long ago – since about the arrival of the first Gen Zer – that Lego was virtually bankrupt and on the ...
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