Date confirmed for Williams-Sonoma | IR News

Date confirmed for Williams-Sonoma

Posted Date: 01/03/2013

By Inside Retail

This week in Inside Retail's Digital Weekly we speak with the president of West Elm, one of four Williams-Sonoma brands coming to Australia.

He reveals the group's Australian launch date, as well as details of the local operation, and plans for further stores. Supermarkets are back in the spotlight, with a successor announced for Metcash head, Andrew Reitzer, but with three months to go Reitzer isn't slowing down, weighing in on the so-called supermarket 'wars' being played out across our television screens and shopping centres.

What will become of Billabong? Inside Retail takes a look at the bidders, and the politics behind the company, as well as throwing up some possible outcomes.

A Western Australian grown retailer is taking on the rest of the country, rolling out a new format that will see it cover new territory by entering shopping centres and a new state. Who doesn't love cookies?

An Australian cookie icon is taking its goodies to the rest of the world, with plans for retail stores, as well as bedding down its retail presence locally. Which shopping centre has scored an Aussie first, securing both Zara and Topshop in a scoop to make even the Lowy's jealous?

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