Retail Therapy: Party City - with Brandon Rael & DeAnn Campbell

03/24/23 • 33 min

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Welcome to Retail Therapy, a RETHINK Retail exclusive Podcast series where we examine a retailer facing a huge challenge or opportunity and provide actionable steps to revive, revitalize or rebrand them back from oblivion. In this episode, host Gabriella Bock is joined by RETHINK Retail Top Retail Influencer's Brandon Rael & DeAnn Campbell to examine Party City, a retailer that gained notoriety as a go-to destination for party favors and goods. In fact, Party City became the world’s largest designer, manufacturer, and distributor of party goods. But on January 17th 2023, the retailer filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and its stock was delisted. Come for the balloons stay for the retail insights on this week's episode of the Retail Therapy Podcast! This episode of Retail Therapy was brought to you by the Retail Cloud Alliance and Avanade. To see how Avanade can help transform your retail business, visit them at www.avanade.com/retail. Host: Gabriella Bock

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