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In March 2019, Galeries Lafayette inaugurated a new flagship on the Champs Élysées, highly focused on luxury and designers’ brands. A year later, the Group’s management...

20 April 2020

Levi’s and VF Corp. Time for acquisitions

As stores have been closed for a month, retailers have activated a large array of possible actions to stem losses and find the necessary working capital. These include offering employees partial...

20 April 2020

Petit Bateau. “E-commerce keeps us afloat”

At the end of 2019, children's clothing retailer Petit Bateau (Rocher Group, turnover of €2.5 billion in 2019) operated 441 stores in 60 countries. 50% of turnover in 2019 was generated outside...

20 April 2020

Why is e-commerce unable to deliver on time?

“I didn’t think I would ever say this. Paradoxically, we are trying to slow down our online business,” said the Director of a specialised retailer. From Europe to the U.S...

20 April 2020

SPECIALISED RETAIL. STRATEGIC business interventions in force

Delaying collections, shifting online, operating smarter promotions. Fashion and accessory retailers share their strategic choices.

20 April 2020

Grocery stores. What strategies for the end of the crisis?

Many food retailers could emerge from the crisis with more punch than they have entered. But with which organisational schemes? G.R.N. decrypts their short and long-term action plans from Europe...

20 April 2020

“Chinese may (carefully) return to stores. Or perhaps not.”

As a retail expert based in Shanghai, Eric Song Yun is the Founder of Songyun Information Technology Co. For Global Retail News, he explained how business is resuming in China’s economic capital...

20 April 2020

China and Austria. Which learnings as stores reopen?

From China to Austria, retail is gradually emerging from hibernation. What are the most effective strategies and timetables?

20 April 2020

“Retail businesses will continue to shift online, depending on their capacities to do so”

What’s happening in the U.S. and South Korea? Neil Stern, Senior Partner at McMillan Doolittle in Chicago and Board Member of E-Mart (South Korea) offers an analysis.

19 March 2020

Sharon White. A politician to straighten John Lewis

When she took her new role in February 2020, Ms. Sharon White (52), the new President of John Lewis Partnership cooperative group, created controversy. Woman of influence and renowned economist;...

18 March 2020

Printemps gets a makeover

Who will succeed to the iconic Paolo de Cesare? The Roman manager who has worked at Procter & Gamble was discharged at the end of February from his functions as General Manager of Printemps...

18 March 2020

Lego expands Chinese ambitions

The Danish toy-retailer Lego (sales of €5.15 billion in 2019 up by 6%) aims to increase stores in China by almost 60% during 2020, moving up from 140 to almost 220 stores. In 2019, China was...

18 March 2020

Malaysia’s biggest D.I.Y. retailer postpones I.P.O.

Mr DIY (1,000 stores in Asia, including 570 in Malaysia and Brunei) is expected to postpone a stock market listing due to current market uncertainties. This was initially planned for the end of...

18 March 2020

H&M targets smaller Indian cities

Selling in India since 2015 with 47 stores in late 2019, the Swedish fashion retailer H&M (net sales of €22.3 billion in 2019, up by 11%) is reviewing expansion priorities. With a dozen...

18 March 2020

“Top 10” retailers driving Asian growth

18 March 2020

Home appliances. India’s potential attracts international giants

Apple relied on third-party sellers and marketplaces stores in India for 10 years. However, the U.S. giant (sales of US$260.2 billion in 2019, – 2%) has now decided to invest in direct...

18 March 2020

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