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Jeanel Alvarado

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Jeanel Alvarado is a marketer and retail strategist, leveraging 15+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise in retail, e-commerce, technology, consumer and shopping trends. She is the former Senior Managing…

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About Jeanel Alvarado

Jeanel Alvarado is a marketer and retail strategist, leveraging 15+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise in retail, e-commerce, technology, consumer and shopping trends. She is the former Senior Managing Director of the School of Retailing at the University of Alberta. Jeanel’s insights appear in Nasdaq, Entrepreneur, Fortune, TIME, and the US Chamber of Commerce, among others, with recurring commentary on top retailers and brands for financial markets, consumer insights, shopping trends, tech Innovation, and the luxury sector.

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Hermès Opens Two Floor Luxury Store Front In China Mall

Hermès Opens Two Floor Luxury Store Front In China Mall

Hermès, the Parisian house is delighted to unveil its newest destination, show- casing its 16 métiers spread across two floors within the mall in Xinjiekou. Having opened its first store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in 2010, Hermès is strategically relocating…

FashionLuxury

Babies R Us To Relaunch First Flagship Store In 2023

Babies”R”Us®, announced today an exciting new partnership with premiere shopping and entertainment destination American Dream in Bergen County, New Jersey, to bring the beloved Babies”R”Us brand back to customers in the United States with the debut of its first flagship…

Retail
Atticus Tysen Joins Nordstrom Board of Directors

Atticus Tysen Joins Nordstrom Board of Directors

As the new year began, Nordstrom, Inc. welcomed a fresh addition to its Board of Directors. On January 3, 2023, Atticus Tysen officially joined the board, bringing with him over three decades of valuable engineering and information security experience. This…

BusinessRetail

Biggest Beauty Deal Starco Brands Acquire Clean Beauty Brand Skylar

Starco Brands, an inventor of consumer products with behavior-changing technologies, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire California-inspired Skylar. “I’ve always been attracted to the beauty of fragrance.  When I found that my newborn daughter was allergic to traditional…

Retail

Glowbar Closes $10M Series A Funding Round

Glowbar, the skincare brand whose custom 30-min, $65, clinical-grade facial has made it a breakout success in New York, announces today it has received a $10 million growth investment led by Peterson Partners, a Salt Lake City-based firm whose investments have…

BeautyRetail

H&M Launches Immersive Fashion Gaming Experience

H&M has announced the launch of H&M Loooptopia Experience on Roblox. H&M Loooptopia is an immersive experience on Roblox that lets players experiment with materials and patterns in a playful way, creating the next virtual garment and wardrobe for their…

FashionRetail
Bloomingdale’s Debut Bloomie’s Store In Downtown Seattle

Bloomingdale’s Debut Bloomie’s Store In Downtown Seattle

Bloomie’s is anticipated to open in 2023 within University Village in the Ravenna neighborhood, located north of Downtown Seattle. This comes off the heels of another successful introduction of the 50,000-square-foot Bloomie’s store in the greater Chicagoland area in August 2022. Bloomie’s,…

FashionLuxury

2023 Beauty Trend: Snail Beauty Products And Spas Increase In Global Demand

Demand for snail beauty products is driven by increase in awareness about snail mucin’s beauty-enhancing properties to help address dry skin, stretch marks, acne, rosacea, age spots, and burns. In addition, Snail mucin is said to have beauty-enhancing antioxidants, including elastin, antimicrobials, proteins, hyaluronic acid and glycolic acid. The global snail beauty products…

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