If you have been listening to some analysts, Australian specialty retail is dead in the water; Customers are apparently all shopping online with large overseas mega-retailers. However, some specialty retailers are apparently bucking the supposed trend. Enter Adairs (ASX: ADH), who with yesterday’s earnings report, reminded Australian investors that there are still gems to be
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Australians and Kiwis are likely to be very comfortable at home through pandemic isolation if the record sales of homemaker retailer Adairs (ASX: ADH) are an indicator, with the Company’s online sales up 110.5% for FY20. Although the pandemic caused closures of their retail stores across Australia and New Zealand for a few months, Adairs
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Shoppers engaging in retail therapy despite the spectre of even more serious job losses and mounting evidence the virus is far from vanquished. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, retail sales rose 2.4 per cent for the month of June, to $29.7 billion. This was an 8 per cent rise on the previous June
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The Advisors at Emerald Financial recently released a Speculative Buy report on Crowd Media (ASX: CM8). The Company has benefited from the growth in online-specific retail, something that has thrived through the COVID-19 pandemic due to isolation restrictions. Just look at a few of the more well-known ASX-listed retail companies that sell solely online have
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We might not be allowed out due to COVID-19 restrictions but that won’t stop Australians from getting their beloved puffer jackets for Winter with Kathmandu Holdings (ASX: KMD) reporting online sales to be up 78% over the past six weeks. The business update comes as Katmandhu continues its gradual store re-openings where the global retailer
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Originally published at https://www.profgalloway.com/casperhaps In 2015 one of my students asked me to invest in his business. He was sourcing cotton in Egypt, milling it in Israel, and then landing a set of sheet sets, duvets, and pillows in Brooklyn for $79 that he would sell for $129. The value proposition was clear: bedding that
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