PROFESSIONAL EDITION
PATAGONIA STORES RE-OPEN ACROSS AUSTRALIA
ASB MAGAZINE: Six weeks ago, Patagonia closed their retail stores for the health and safety of employees and customers. Patagonia were amongst the first companies in our industry to take…
COVID19 IMPACT: APRIL 2020 ALL CATEGORIES DOWN -45.4% (YTD -17.7%)
ACTIONWATCH OZ: All stores (except one) reported data from on our panel for April albeit with reduced trading hours as the full effect of Covid-19 restrictions kicked in. Meanwhile, the large……
JODIE COOPER IS THE 42nd MEMBER OF THE AUSTRALIAN SURFING HALL OF FAME
ASB MAGAZINE: Hosted by surf media icons, Ronnie and Vaughan Blakey, the thirty-sixth Australian Surfing Awards Incorporating The Hall of Fame went to air on Sunday, May 24th on Channel 9…
HOW THE BIGHT WAS WON
The campaign to stop Equinor from drilling for oil in the Great Australian Bight is a unique – and uniquely successful – piece of activism. As well as the…
RANGE REALIGNMENT IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19
ASB MAGAZINE: As COVID19 restrictions continue, brands are taking various approaches to forward indents and the excess stock of inventory held by retailers who are unable to trade through this period.…
PREMIERING ON ITUNES GLOBALLY – LAURA ENEVER ‘UNDONE’
ASB MAGAZINE: Madman Entertainment, Laura Enever and Billabong are proud to announce the Global Online Launch of Undone on Friday 22nd May. Following on from the feature documentary’s initial…
US RETAILER COVID19 SENTIMENT REPORT
ActionWatch’s survey of core US retailers shows an uptick in optimism that many industry shops will be able to survive the coronavirus crisis. The biggest headline that emerged is that…
STORE CLOSURES DRIVE US PANEL DOWN -76% APRIL
April door closures stifled brick & mortar sales In the US almost all of our retail partners had to close their doors the entire month of April due to the…
TUNE INTO CHANNEL 9 THIS SUNDAY MAY 24TH
ASB MAGAZINE: Hosted by surf media’s double trouble, Ronnie and Vaughan Blakey, the thirty-sixth Australian Surfing Awards Incorporating The Hall of Fame will go to air on Sunday, May 24th on…
POST COVID LET’S NOT WRITE OFF PHYSICAL SHOPPING JUST YET
The collective unconscious consists of the sum of the instincts and their correlates, the archetypes. Just as everybody possesses instincts, so he also possesses a stock of archetypal images. –…
RHYTHM – PRODUCT DEVELOPER
Rhythm is a wholesale surf & lifestyle apparel company specializing in premium products. This is a great opportunity for a career in an exciting lifestyle industry; we are a looking for…
VANS HYPER CUSTOMER CENTRIC APPROACH IS WINNING
ASB MAGAZINE: Shares of VF Corp. dropped Friday as the owner of VANS took a hit from the coronavirus economic shutdown. VF, whose North American stores have been closed since…