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The luxury brand MCM (selling leather handbags from € 500, suitcases and fashion) aims to become a global powerhouse of German luxury. The German-Korean retailer targets sales of US$1 billion...

18 March 2019

U.K. subscription firms gain traction

According to Royal Mail’s latest report, the British subscription box sector should reach a total value of €1.15 billion by 2022. Between 2017 and 2022, it should grow by 72% in value...

18 March 2019

Europe’s 3 largest retail developers in 2018

In 2018, the evolution of retail sq.m illustrated the changes for retail sector dynamics. In Klépierre malls, tenants recording the highest sales growth sectors were coffee &...

18 March 2019

DIY / Gardening. Is Mano Mano Europe’s next unicorn?

In 2018, the Mano Mano digital marketplace reached a Gross Merchandise Value (G.M.V.) of €424 million, up by 70% year-on-year. Previous G.M.V. values were only €32 million in 2015...

15 March 2019

Kroger. All ways towards omni-channel

The U.S. grocer Kroger, whose annual revenue reached US$121 billion in 2018, is recording the first results of its strategic plan named “Restock Kroger”. Launched in late 2017, it...

15 March 2019

The core business of a retailer is not creating computer code

15 March 2019

Jean-André Rougeot, new C.E.O. of Sephora AMERICAS

Jean-André Rougeot is C.E.O. of Sephora Americas from February 4. He succeeds Calvin McDonald, who left in July to take the tiller at Lululemon Athletica. Rougeot was Head of Benefit...

15 February 2019

Farhan Siddiqi, From McDonald’s to Ahold Delhaize

Marks and Spencer (see G.R.N. October 2018) led the way when Jeremy Pee moved from Loblaw to M&S as Chief Digital Officer (C.D.O.). Reflecting similar innovation, Ahold Delhaize has appointed...

15 February 2019

Amazon is the world’s 4th largest retailer by sales

The 22nd edition of the “Global Powers of Retailing” survey from Deloitte showcases how the 250 biggest retailers performed in 2017. If U.S. traditional players remain the...

15 February 2019

DIY. A million Dollar I.P.O. for the “Leroy Merlin” of Malaysia

With more than 700 stores in Southeast Asia in December 2018 (average size of 930 sq.m GLA, sales of US$209 million in the fiscal year 2017, the last one available), the Malaysian home improvement...

15 February 2019

Billionaire James Dyson moves head office to Singapore

As uncertainly and distrust on the future prosperity or otherwise of the post-Brexit continues to cause considerable concern, Sir James Dyson, an active Brexit supporter, broadcast a flagship...

15 February 2019

Chinese giants Tencent and Anta invest in Amer Sports

Ahead of Beijing’s Olympic Games in 2022, China’s biggest sports retailer Anta signed a €4.6 billion deal to buy the Finnish group Amer Sports. The firm specialises in winter...

15 February 2019

China to be the global n°1 retail market

In 2019 China is expected to become the world’s biggest retail market with sales of US$5.6 trillion (+7.5%), outpacing the U.S., at US$5.53 trillion (+3.3%), said eMarketer. E-commerce in...

15 February 2019

How feeble is the Chinese economy?

Investors consider that China’s GDP is far more anaemic than the official growth rate of +6.6% in 2018. The economic slowdown has deepened in Q4, with a +6.4% change year-on-year. If growth...

15 February 2019

Decathlon to make inroads in Japan

Europe’s biggest sporting goods retailer (sales of €11 billion up by 11% in 2017, the latest fiscal year available) will open a 1st store in 2019 near Osaka on 2,000 sq.m. It will be...

15 February 2019

276 million consumers born between 1990 and 1999?

This is the profile of shoppers on Alibaba’s digital marketplaces, which draw a total of 552 million active consumers in China in the fiscal year 2018 (from April 2017 to March 2018). Half...

15 February 2019

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While his start-up shakes up an array of players focused on product data management solutions, Edouard Margain, Co-Founder of Upsellr, shared with us at NRF Europe the results of the data...

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Hanshow makes a breakthrough in the US but stumbles on the economics of smart trolley

While at NRF Europe, Hanshow revealed a major contract with one of the U.S. retail giants to mind Retail, its smart trolley has yet to prove a market match. A hardware-focused strategy that raises...

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Hugues Chanoine (Hygie31 Digital): “The next step is to eliminate filters to move to 100% conversational search”

The Hygie31 retail group, known for the Lafayette Pharmacies, is continuing to transform its websites, driven by Cocooncenter. Thanks to an AI strategy and a fully redesigned IT architecture, it...

10 September 2026

ChatGPT: Bureau Vallée’s recipe to capture back-to-school spending

By launching a conversational chatbot with Algolia and a new module converting school lists into e-commerce carts this summer, Bureau Vallée aims to ease the chore of back-to-school supply list...

10 September 2026

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