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Macy’s vs. HBC: Two Different Takes on the Ecommerce Spinoff

Shareholder activists are nothing new — some sources credit Warren Buffet’s mentor Jeff Gramm as the first activist investor, nearly 95 years…

AMIRI Adds Personalization and Operations Tools to In-Store Experience

As luxury fashion brand AMIRI prepares to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint from its four U.S. stores, the retailer is incorporating a suite…

Saks Fifth Avenue Tops List of 2021 Winning Windows Recipients

Winning Windows began as a way for design:retail to celebrate the retailers and creative teams that use their window real estate to…

Report: New Stakeholder Jana Partners Pushes Macy’s to Split Off Ecommerce Business

Activist investor Jana Partners has taken an undisclosed stake in Macy’s and is prodding the department store chain to separate its ecommerce…

Saks.com Completes $465 Million in New Financing

Saks.com has secured a new round of financing to back its growth strategy as it aims to take advantage of the continuing…

HBC Splits Saks Fifth Avenue Into Separate Ecommerce and Brick-and-Mortar Businesses

HBC will spin off Saks Fifth Avenue’s ecommerce business as a standalone entity that will be called Saks. Growth capital investor Insight…

Barneys is Back, via Saks Fifth Avenue, in New York and Connecticut

Iconic luxury retailer Barneys New York has been brought back to life inside Saks Fifth Avenue’s New York City flagship via a…

Hudson’s Bay Shareholders Approve Privatization Plan

More than 98% of Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) shareholders voted to take the department store retailer private for a price of $11…

HBC To Shutter Home Outfitters Chain, Up To 20 Saks OFF 5TH Stores

Hudson Bay’s Company (HBC) will close its Home Outfitters business in Canada in 2019, and may shutter up to 20 Saks OFF…

Saks Fifth Avenue Targets Facebook Shoppers With Holiday Gift Guide Chatbot

For the second year in a row, Saks Fifth Avenue launched a Holiday Gift Guide chatbot on Facebook Messenger. The Saks team…

Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor Confirm Data Breach Affecting Up To 5 Million Shoppers

On April 1, HBC confirmed a report that hackers had breached payment systems in its Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and…

Hudson’s Bay Picks CVS Exec As New CEO

HBC, parent company of iconic retail brands including Hudson’s Bay, Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue, has appointed CVS executive Helena…

Leveraging Customer Insights to Drive Personalization – A Retail Perspective

Supply Chain Impacts, Understaffed Stores Create Customer Loyalty Challenges

Streamline Product Data Management to Maximize Multichannel Growth

From Merchant-Centric to Customer-Centric: How to Transform Online Product Discovery

The 2022 Holiday Planning Guide for Retailers

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