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PetSmart Names Retail Veteran as New CEO

Retail TouchPoints

His previous retail experience includes leadership positions at JCPenney, Payless ShoeSource, Home Shopping Network, May Department Stores and McKinsey & Co. Most recently, Hicks served as CEO of Academy Sports + Outdoors as well as CEO of Foot Locker. He is a U.S. Military Academy graduate who served in the U.S.

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QVC Serves Up Content-Commerce Combo with New USA Pickleball Partnership

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A new kind of content will soon be arriving on home-shopping networks QVC and HSN — live pickleball tournaments.

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QVC and HSN still lead the way in live home shopping biz

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billion last year, as the home shopping giant saw its business buoyed by the pandemic and growth in its live streaming operations. Livestream shopping is expected to grow more than four times its current level to $25 billion over the next two years, according to Coresight Research.

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How HSN and QVC Parent Qurate is Working to ‘Crack the Code’ of Livestreaming

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Long before there was livestreaming, social media or even the internet, there were home shopping networks — and the undisputed leaders of that realm were QVC and HSN , now both operated under the umbrella of Qurate Retail Group. But the heyday of “home shopping” in that context is now firmly behind us. consumer. ”

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Ideal Shopping Direct blasts through bullish forecasts

Retail Technology Review

Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), the UK multi-channel home shopping retailer and owner of the Create and Craft and Ideal World TV channel, reports that it has achieved a significant turnaround in the past 12 months; £6.5m profit, 30% ahead of the £5m it predicted earlier in the year.

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Amazon Brings Live Shopping to Streaming TV

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The move represents an interesting return to a more traditional format for home shopping, one that had been eschewed by many companies in recent years in favor of newer video platforms — in particular social media.

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Qurate faces Nasdaq delisting

RetailDive

The struggling company, which runs home shopping networks QVC and HSN and a small brand portfolio, has until Dec. 9 to regain share price compliance.