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Metro AG sells Chinese assets
The German retailer Metro AG, which owns 95 wholesale stores in China plus properties in Beijing and Shanghai has started to dispose of local operations in a deal estimated at €1.8 billion...
16 April 2019
Luckin Coffee, The Concept of the Month
Shanghai. In China, the “food & beverages” sector has been booming on the last two years with new concepts focused at 100% on delivery. In the coffee sector, the Luckin Coffee...
16 April 2019
Farfetch platform wants to list Chinese luxury fashion brands
The Farfetch market place (which sells 3,200 luxury brands in 190 countries) is already established in facilitating international expansion for high-end fashion brands. It is about to make a major...
16 April 2019
Ocado enters Australia with Coles supermarkets.
After Bon Preu, Kroger, Monoprix and Sobey’s, the Australian grocer Coles signed an agreement with the British grocery pure-player Ocado. It aims to double its delivery capacity of online...
16 April 2019
Galeries Lafayette banking on Chinese customers
The Galeries Lafayette Group (sales of €4.5 billion in 2017) twice made headlines with strategic news in March 2019. The Group opened 2 stores. The first is over 6,500 sq.m GLA in Paris on...
16 April 2019
Lulu Group plans to open 32 new hypermarkets this year
Involved in a sustained expansion strategy, the Emirati Lulu Group (revenue of US$8.1 billion in the last fiscal year via 152 stores plus a property business) plans to open 32 hypermarkets in 2019...
16 April 2019
Jumia plans a listing for the New York Stock Exchange
On March 12, 2019, the African market place Jumia filed paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The timing and size of...
16 April 2019
Slower growth & data activation, new retail challenges in the Middle East
In a region where retail leaders have strong financial reserves, talking about restructuration or cost optimisation has long been taboo in the Middle East. “It is now time for a...
16 April 2019
Algeria. What retail future after Bouteflika?
In Algeria, the reactions of retailers and investors appeared to be positive following the announcement, on April 2, 2019, of the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika after 20 years in...
16 April 2019
The very colourful Brazilian brand “Farm Rio” launches in New York
At the end of April 2019, in the Soho district of New York, the women’s fashion brand Farm Rio will open its first point of sale in the U.S.A. on a sales area of 210 sq.m (address 113 Prince...
16 April 2019
Shoes with manicures in store
In the U.S., the DSW shoe brand (capitalisation of US$2.4 billion, up 48% in one year) will install manicure services in 5 additional stores. Since 2017, it has been testing nail bars in 2 stores...
16 April 2019
Cencosud has big ambitions for its stock market listing
In Chile, the retail giant Cencosud plans to sell up to 30% of the property business for US$1 billion. The Cencosud group, which manages 54 malls and 1,100 stores (Jumbo hypermarkets, Paris and...
16 April 2019
Brazil. Birth of a giant in shopping centres
By next month, shopping centre operators Aliansce Shopping Centres and Sonae Sierra Brasil are expected to enter into a merger agreement, which means that the combined firm will be worth more than...
16 April 2019
Ikea wants to make inroads into Mexico
In Mexico, the forthcoming entry of the Ikea Group highlights the new strategy of the world’s largest furniture retailer (sales of €38.8 billion in the fiscal year to late August 2018)...
16 April 2019
Sephora is expanding and announces collaboration with treatment facility
In the wake of Ulta Beauty, the French beauty retailer Sephora (460 stores in the U.S.A. with 660 “corners” at J.C.Penney) is expanding in-store treatment services. The L.V.M.H...
16 April 2019
The cost killer Action slowed in its growth
For its 25th anniversary of creation in the Netherlands, the financial results of Action BV, (known as the “cost-killer” for domestic products and small decorations) were somewhat...
16 April 2019
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