Iconic furniture and homewares retailer Freedom is undergoing a brand revamp with an emphasis on championing local design. With over a year’s worth of planning, the Australasian brand began the transformation process in 2019 with Kate Hopwood as head of product design. Hopwood had previously headed the design team at Kmart for eight years and […]

With Christmas now just over two months away, retailers across Australasia are facing unique challenges including a sharp decrease in sales in traditional brick and mortar stores.  Foot traffic is down by 93.6 percent compared to the same time last year, retail sales are down 2.6 percent, and with supply chains being disrupted, the effects of the […]

Commercial Bay has welcomed New Zealand label Wynn Hamlyn to its community this month, being designer Wynn Crawshaw’s first ever retail store on the ground floor of the iconic waterfront precinct. This is brilliant news for local fashion retail, with a new band of young designers setting a new standard for how retail businesses should […]

Each year, a staggering 92 million tons of solid waste is produced due to the fashion industry using 98 million tons of natural resources. With many retailers looking to reduce their carbon footprint, reusing clothes has become highly popular. One retailer changing the game is Swapology, New Zealand’s first sutainable online clothes swapping platform. Launched […]

The spate of brazen cyber attacks against strategically important organisations like the NZX and Metservice must prompt Kiwi businesses to rethink their cyber security. The attacks are a wake-up call for New Zealand businesses to step up their threat protection and contingency planning systems. Professional services firm Accenture says businesses must invest in scalable security […]