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In the U.S.A., the time is not suitable for major acquisitions. The No. 1 shopping centre operator Simon Property cancelled an acquisition of Taubman Centers (26 centres in the U.S. and Asia) for...

15 June 2020

Department stores. Rinascente goes into e-commerce

As part of the Thai Central Group, the Italian Rinascente ‘store’ is a 10th unit, but actually a website exclusively devoted to e-commerce. At the launch scheduled for mid-June in...

15 June 2020

Ikea innovates in Japan

The Swedish kit furniture giant is opening its first city centre format dedicated to urban spaces in Tokyo, Japan, where it operates a total of 11 points of sale. Located near a Uniqlo store, Ikea...

15 June 2020

Primark in discussion with landlords

Closed since March 23rd, the fast fashion retailer Primark will reopen all 189 stores in the U.K. on June 15th. The giant retailer pays around €147 million in rent per year and has lost...

15 June 2020

Harrods temporarily expands into outlet

British department store Harrods (turnover of €987.6 million for the financial year ending February 2019, up by 1%), a subsidiary of Qatar Holding LLC, announces a new temporary outlet store...

15 June 2020

To maintain customer relationships, John Lewis boosts online appointments

Since mid-April 2020, the British retailer John Lewis (turnover of €13.8 billion in 2019, -1,5%) has been transposing store services to the web. Karen Reeves, Product Services Manager at John...

15 June 2020

Furniture. What post-crisis model?

From Europe to the U.S.A., exciting lessons are being learned for home-decoration retailers. According to Neela Montgomery, C.E.O. of Crate & Barrel, “We are starting to see the...

15 June 2020

E-commerce, China, 3D designs. Which business levers work for fashion?

Faced with the Covid-19 crisis, e-commerce has proved to be a real lifeline for some fashion retailers. However, digital services are not comprehensive across the sector. According to Bain &...

15 June 2020

Carrefour advances pawns into Taiwan

2020 is a year of international expansion for the giant Carrefour (turnover of €80.7 billion in 2019). After the acquisition of 30 Makro Atacadista cash & carry stores in Brazil in...

15 June 2020

Faysal AlMalki, Al Malki Group : “Since covid, customers who come into the stores are customers who buy”

Created in 1952, the Franco-Saudi family group Al Malki represents more than 50 luxury brands (Estée Lauder, Lancôme, Chopard, Boucheron, Cartier…) in the Gulf. Faysal AlMalki, C.O.O. of the...

15 June 2020

CGI. “Improve the shopping experience by spending less time in the store.”

As the crisis retreats, a gradual retail recovery is giving rise to different concerns, fresh expectations and new consumption patterns. Arnaud Cartigny, Vice-President of Retail Consulting at...

2 June 2020

Luckin Coffee. Dismissal at the top at the “Chinese Starbucks”

It’s a lesson in terms of rushed investment. Oversupply of cash in the U.S. seeking a home pushed investors to rush into Chinese mobile applications, convinced at all costs that a population...

20 May 2020

Why is Kretinsky investing in Macy’s?

According to Forbes, the activist investor Daniel Kretinsky (aged 44) is the fifth richest Czech citizen. He has taken a 5% stake in the American department store chain Macy’s (US$24 billion...

20 May 2020

Victoria Glanz, Fullet : “Big retailers will come out of this crisis in a better position”

Based in Shanghai, Victoria Glanz is Senior Partner at Full Jet, an agency that supports retailers on the Alibaba’s platforms Taobao and Tmall (824 million monthly active users in total in 2019)...

20 May 2020

Boom in local demand in Hong Kong

In Hong Kong, local products are booming. While 50 years ago 50% of the fruit and vegetables consumed in Hong Kong were produced locally, 98% are now imported, especially from China. In Singapore...

20 May 2020

South Korea and China move to revive reciprocal business travel

On May 1st, 2020, China launched a new bilateral “Green Lane” immigration program, aimed at facilitating business travel with South Korea. Koreans can now travel to 7 provinces and the...

20 May 2020

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Refurbished smartphones: why Largo relies on Speeral automation

The start-up founded by the duo behind Teester and Skeepers is accelerating automation of second-hand product flows. The strategy is to use AI to direct products to high-traffic marketplaces such...

9 December 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

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Already in POC, Dialog’s conversational agent shows up in the search bar

Buoyed by a €3.8 million seed round closed in mid‑November 2025, French start‑up Dialog, specialised in AI‑based conversational e‑commerce, is accelerating. Initially placed on product pages, this...

4 December 2025

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On December 9, Carrefour and Carmila signed a partnership with Unlimitail and JCDecaux to create a retail media network combining indoor DOOH and outdoor OOH across their sites in France and...

12 December 2025

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Through an agreement to acquire 70% of the operator of Grand Frais, the US investment fund Apollo aims to double stores and evolve a model that has so far been entirely focused on physical retail...

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Italian Golden Goose set for Chinese ownership

A year after the French children’s clothing brand Bonpoint was acquired by Chinese group Youngor, Italian luxury brand Golden Goose is next. British fund Permira (already owner of Hugo...

9 December 2025

Pierre Brousseau (FDJ United Ventures): “For 2026, we are positioning ourselves in a more rational and offensive again VC market”

What is the total amount of assets under management at FDJ United Ventures?FDJ United Ventures was launched in 2015. We invest in European start-ups supported by La Française des Jeux (FDJ...

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