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Over 10 years, Leroy Merlin Romania moved from a low-price retail concept to an omnichannel company in which e-commerce plays a major role, both in terms of activity and profitability. What are...

23 December 2021

GRDI: Top 10 most attractive countries for retailers

According to Kearney‘s Global Retail Development Index (GRDI), Africa will become the fastest growing market for retail. The study, which examines emerging markets, raises critical...

22 December 2021

Walgreens plans to sell Boots

In order to focus on its new healthcare provider business and the North American market, Walgreens Boots Alliance (sales of US$132.5 billion in the year to August 2021, +7.5%) is considering...

21 December 2021

Majid Al Futtaim Retail believes in “tech-enhanced” convenience

Majid Al Futtaim (assets estimated at US$16,8 billion according to Forbes, with 27 malls and 13 hotels) is the exclusive franchisor of Carrefour in the Gulf, Africa and part of the Asian...

21 December 2021

Israel. Shufersal’s online sales fall

In Q3 2021, Israeli supermarket chain Shufersal reported that online revenue fell to 18.7% of business, compared to 20.8% in Q3 2020.

17 December 2021

TikTok invests in Dubai delivery start-up

An unexpected investor emerged in the latest round of funding for Dubai-based delivery start-up iMile.

17 December 2021

A mapping of the French retail techs

In an annual study, Klein Blue and Finance Innovation offer a panorama of French retail technology. Find them the 383 startups in this article.

17 December 2021

Black Friday. BNPL payment volumes explode across Europe

According to data released by payment service provider Mollie, the use of Buy Now Pay Later payment methods (BNPL) increased by 51% in Europe during the Black Friday period, compared to the same...

17 December 2021

After Douglas, Criteo strengthens a beauty footprint with Flaconi pure-player

Criteo, which has raised the financial forecast for 2021, is rolling out a retail media offering in the non-food sector. Elise Ophèle, Head of Sales Retail Media Non-Food, and Nicolas Benoît...

17 December 2021

[exclu] Retail media. What are the rates in France?

In the U.S.A., the retail media market (including advertising investments on e-commerce sites) will pass US$30 billion in 2022. Amazon alone accounts for 75% of this market.

17 December 2021

Zara: the heiress takes charge of a group that has undergone a digital transformation

Marta Ortega Pérez, aged 38, will become President of Inditex in April 2022, the holding company of the fast-fashion group built by her father (€7.56 billion in sales via 6,829 stores...

17 December 2021

4 years after its liquidation, Toys R Us is rising from the ashes

Under the leadership of new owner WHP Global, Toys R Us is returning to brick & mortars.

13 December 2021

Property. New projects mushroom in the Gulf region

Whilst the Central Bank forecasts a GDP of 2.1% in 2021 and 4.2% in 2022 for the United Arab Emirates, the property market is catching up. In the first half of 2021, Dubai’s hotels returned...

13 December 2021

Canada. Ikea is keeping pace online

In a summary on December 1st, Ikea- Canada said that e-commerce reached US$969 million, up by 161% in the fiscal year to August. It accounted for 37% of total sales of US$2.59 billion (+11.8%)...

13 December 2021

“In franchising, you sometimes have two sheets shearing each others’ wool”

Across Europe, co-operatives such as Intersport, John Lewis, Co-op Danmark or E.Leclerc as not-profit systems, do not aim to make a profit. The objective is to improve costs by high volume...

13 December 2021

Unified Retail : what value sharing for independent retailers ?

While omnichannel is mandatory for retail businesses, adoption remains complex for independent retailers. How to write new rules of value sharing, store implementation and managing profitability?...

13 December 2021

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In the US, Gap, Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon and eBay are taking very different approaches to agentic commerce. While TV shopping giants QVC and HSN see these new intermediaries as an opportunity to...

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