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Footwear brands navigate uncertainty after latest tariffs flip-flop
4+ hour, 35+ min ago (448+ words) Join us: Modern Retail Marketing Summit | Apr 2022, Huntington Beach "It's going to be an ongoing cycle that, unfortunately, we felt was a little bit behind us," Logan Bird, the CEO of Mephisto USA, told Modern Retail. Mephisto owns its own…...
Brands Briefing: Teva's athletes are testing products in extreme conditions, on all continents
18+ hour, 35+ min ago (171+ words) Join us: Modern Retail Marketing Summit | Apr 2022, Huntington Beach Michael Wardian, a marathoner and ultramarathoner, kicked off 2026 in a way most people didn't: by running seven marathons on'seven continents'in'seven days. Meanwhile, his fellow athlete Erin Ton, a trail and mountain…...
The Athlete’s Foot launches US e-commerce site in quest to build a more unified brand
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (421+ words) As the holiday season comes to a close, most retailers have been focused on driving as many sales as possible through their e-commerce sites. But The Athlete's Foot has a different focus than most: It has spent this December soft-launching…...
How Nisolo's new CEO plans to turn the footwear brand around
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (728+ words) Cyber Week: Save 50% on a 3-month Modern Retail+ membership. Ends Dec 5. Taryn Jones Laeben, president and founder of the early-stage advisory and investment firm IRL Ventures, has shepherded dozens of brands through periods of hypergrowth. She steered retail partnerships for…...
Why startup brands are increasingly flocking to this Midwestern department store
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (811+ words) Regional department store Von Maur is on a mission to bring more brands to shoppers in the heartland." The retailer, founded in 1872 in Davenport, Iowa, has been on a slow and steady growth trajectory at a time when other department…...
The new chief of Toms wants to 'reawaken' the Y2K-era footwear brand
4+ mon, 3+ day ago (532+ words) The new CEO of Toms told Modern Retail she wants to "reawaken and reignite" the canvas shoe brand as it gears up for its 20th anniversary next year. "The world is ready for Toms to come back," Jessica Alsing, who took…...
Modern Retail Podcast: The much-hyped NikeSkims collection and Michaels's bid to fill the Joann and Party City voids
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (158+ words) Enter the 2025 Modern Retail Awards to showcase your retail innovation Subscribe: Apple Podcasts " Spotify On this week's episode of the Modern Retail Podcast, co-hosts Gabriela Barkho and Melissa Daniels go deep on the much-hyped NikeSkims launch. They discuss the look…...
Anthropologie's Candan Erenguc on what's next for Maeve and other owned brands
5+ mon, 4+ hour ago (640+ words) Enter the 2025 Modern Retail Awards to showcase your retail innovation Anthropologie is entering autumn with a focus on its burgeoning private label business. While private label products aren't new at Anthropologie, they're proving popular with the company's core, trend-minded consumer....
'It's too risky': Tariffs are causing brands to back away from the US and expand abroad instead
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (801+ words) Enter the 2025 Modern Retail Awards to showcase your retail innovation Loftie needs components from abroad, and while it looked into operating a factory in Thailand, that turned out to be even more expensive than operating in China. "Until there's some…...
Modern Retail Podcast: Dick's $2.4B Foot Locker bet, the Girl Scout brand empire and behind the scenes of AG1's product research
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (313+ words) Melissa Daniels is a California-based journalist who has held staff roles at numerous publications including the Associated Press, Law360, The Desert Sun and The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In addition to more than a decade of professional journalism experience, she's worked as a…...