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Bed Bath & Beyond Continues to Rebuild C-Suite with Marketing Chief Appointment

Retail TouchPoints

Bed Bath & Beyond has appointed Bart Sichel as EVP, Chief Marketing and Customer Officer as the troubled retailer rebuilds its executive leadership following a number of departures in 2022, including former SVP of Marketing James Reath.

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Every Marketing Reel Needs a Hook — Automated Testing Sharpens It

Retail TouchPoints

Whether the result of forgetfulness or indecisiveness, many of these cart abandonments are actually salvageable, depending on a retailer’s willingness to embrace innovative and creative marketing tactics. So what’s missing from marketers’ toolkits that would enable them to build a bridge over that monetary chasm?

Marketing 239
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CEOs Own Software Competency — And The Structure Of Innovation Delivery

Forrester eCommerce

Marc Andreessen famously said this in a 2011 essay in The Wall Street Journal. Whether your firm is disrupting markets or playing catch-up, every major business activity and strategy requires […]. World-class innovation delivery requires weaving together three foundational realities: “Software is eating the world.”

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Bath & Body Works Taps Unilever Veteran as New CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Boswell brings more than 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, brand building, business development and strategy to the role. She first joined Unilever in 2011 as EVP, Personal Care North America where she oversaw a portfolio of more than 20 personal care brands and helped Unilever’s haircare business achieve U.S.

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Trove Promotes President to CEO as Founder Takes Executive Chairman Title

Retail TouchPoints

Former CEO Andy Ruben, who occupied the position since founding the company in 2011, will continue to work with Trove as its Executive Chairman. Her career, spanning more than 20 years, includes general management, marketing and commercial responsibilities including global consumer goods, payments, ecommerce and digital marketing.

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Macy’s Partners With Target Evolution to Sell Teen Entrepreneurs’ Products at Texas Off-Mall Store

Retail TouchPoints

The companies will initially open a Trail Blaze Shop in the Market by Macy’s in Flower Mound, Texas as well as launching related two-day popup experiences that will offer teens a chance to sell their products inside Macy’s stores. Target Evolution was founded in 2011 to provide solutions to the common problem of youth unemployment.

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Inditex Appoints Founders’ Daughter as Chair, Names New CEO

Retail TouchPoints

Marta Ortega Pérez has been named Chairwoman of Inditex Group — parent company of Zara , Pull&Bear and Massimo Dutti — and Óscar García Maceiras will replace Carlos Crespo as CEO, completing a “generational handover process” at the fashion conglomerate that began in 2011. She will assume her new role as Chairwoman on April 1, 2022.

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