Kohl’s Promises 400 New Sephora Shop-in Shops

Kohl’s Promises 400 New Sephora Shopin-Shops

The 400 new shops add to the 200 locations already in place between the two retailers. Kohl’s aims to have 850 Sephora shop-in-shops by 2023.The new locations span 36 states, eight of which are brand new homes to Sephora at Kohl’s. The shop-in-shops mimic freestanding Sephora stores, featuring a 2,500-squarefoot, fully immersive beauty experience. Kohl’s aims to bring in customers through its doors who know the beauty retailer, with a curated assortment of makeup, skincare, hair and fragrance brands, as well as clean beauty and self-care. In addition, the shops feature Sephora-trained Beauty Advisors to provide beauty consultations and assistance with finding products. The partnership with Sephora has helped Kohl’s in “driving sales, bringing in new, younger and more diverse customers, and enabling cross-category purchases across all lines of business,” the company

said in a press release. Source: Retail Leader (https://bit. ly/3h0jgeQ)

Sales of Top India Retailers Surpass PreCovid Levels

Sales of top retailers such as Reliance Retail, Shoppers Stop, Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail (ABFRL), Avenue Supermarts, Bata and Titan surpassed pre-Covid levels in the October-December quarter, with Reliance Retail and ABFRL reporting their highest ever quarterly revenue and profit.

The growth last quarter was driven by the festive and wedding seasons, top executives of these chains said in recent earnings calls. Both ecommerce and store revenue increased as compared to earlier quarters, when online sales were primarily driving the business.

Reliance Industries joint chief financial officer V Srikanth told analysts that the retail business of the conglomerate achieved almost “100% normalisation as far as the operation in stores is concerned, and footfalls were pretty close at 95% of pre-Covid levels” last quarter. Reliance Retail witnessed demand across consumption baskets, he said. Source: Economic Times

BRAVO, One of Largest Retail Chains in Azerbaijan, Automating Sale Processes with Set Products

Azerbaijan’s BRAVO supermarket chain has updated its cash register solution. Currently, cashiers in all 88 shops of the chain work on touch-screen cash registers in the Set Retail system, the interface of which has been translated into Azerbaijani.

With the replacement of cash register software, the retailer solved several problems at once: it stabilized data exchange between internal IT systems, received new tools for marketing campaigns, and due to the open Set Retail API, it can connect new services for business development. The first successful pilot is facial recognition for payment using the Smile Pay

service. Source: Trend News Agency (https://bit.ly/3v2kH4s)

Naivas to open stores at Greenspan, Imara Malls

Supermarket chain Naivas will open two branches at Nairobi’s Greenspan Mall and Imara Shopping Mall in the next two weeks as it steps up its expansion in the country.

The establishment of the outlet at Greenspan Mall, which is owned by Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed property investor ILAM Fahari I-Reit, had been delayed by a court case filed by former tenant Tuskys which is in financial distress.

The retailer is targeting thousands of shoppers around the region with a high population density. “They will be situated at Greenspan Mall in Donholm and at Imara Shopping Mall in Embakasi,” Naivas Chief Commercial Officer Willy Kimani said in an interview with Business Daily.

The two branches come as Naivas races to defend its market leadership against its closest rivals in the retail space that have also been expanding in the past few

Zomato Leases Office Space

Food delivery company Zomato has leased 300,000 sq ft of office space at Emaar India’s Downtown Capital tower in Gurgaon in one of the biggest leasing deals in the National Capital Region in recent times. The building where Zomato has taken up space is located on Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road. “The building where Zomato has taken space is a JV (Joint Venture) between Emaar India and another developer. Zomato has relocated from existing space an international property consultant facilitated the deal,” a person aware of the deal said on condition

of anonymity. Source: Retail Economic Times (https://bit. ly/3LP5ZnB)

Dolce & Gabbana Relaunching Beauty with An Eye on Gen-Z

Doclce&Gabbana has become the first Italian fashion house to bring its beauty division in-house, a move that the CEO said Tuesday would strengthen the link between beauty and fashion and help build inroads with younger consumers. CEO Alfonso Dolce said developing products with a new team at the Milan headquarters will allow more creative tie-ins with runway collections, “creating a more global, transversal experience,” that he said would bring the brand “closer not only to our loyal customers but also new Gen-Z clients.” The Milan fashion powerhouse made the move after its licensing deal with Shiseido was terminated last year, the latest in a series of licensing agreements that Docle&Gabbana had entered since launching fragrances 30 years ago.