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The Chalhoub Group, specialised in luxury brands expanding in the Middle East region, is making inroads in Latin America. It will roll out its beauty banner called “Wojooh” in Costa...

26 February 2018

Dune London sparkles this year

British footwear retailer, Dune London, recorded an increase in like-for-like retail sales of 5.2% for its full-year period to January 2018, despite a challenging retail environment in the U.K...

26 February 2018

Ikea is testing renting out and buying back furniture

In Japan, Ikea has undertaken a more sustainable business venture: renting out and buying back their own furniture. The new concept is an effort to become more environmentally-friendly. The...

26 February 2018

Zara opens its first click-and collect-store

Zara is opening a first store solely dedicated to click-and-collect orders at Westfield Stratford City in east London. The 200 sq.m GLA store is designed to support ordering and collection of...

26 February 2018

Kering bets on luxury

Eager to focus on its luxury labels of Gucci, which generated 70% of Kering’s total profit in 2017, the luxury giant aims to split off Puma through a share offer. This is valued at €5.8...

26 February 2018

Creative Space, the Concept of the Month

Located in posh Frederiksberg, a fashionable part of Copenhagen, Denmark, with excellent shopping opportunities and green spaces, Creative Space is an original retail concept covering 186 sq.m in...

26 February 2018

Swiss shoe maker Bally under Chinese flag

So far, Chinese used to be among the world’s biggest consumers of luxury products. They are now direct investors into luxury firms. The fashion group Shandong Ruyi (owner of Sandro, Maje...

26 February 2018

Textile. Turkish investors advance their players into Africa

In early February 2018, the Turkish investor Ayka Textile signed a major investment project to develop the textile industry in Burkina Faso, West Africa’s largest cotton producer. The...

26 February 2018

From the Expert

Three questions answered by Mrs Bonnet-Desplan, Associate Lawyer at Ernst & Young

26 February 2018

How attractive is a city for successful retail sales ?

Redevco (€7.5 billion retail portfolio with assets in 11 countries) ranked 825 European cities in 25 countries for a “City Attractiveness” study. This quantified the...

26 February 2018

China. A major deal between malls and online giants

The largest omnichannel deal so far has just taken place in China in January 2018. From a European scale perspective, it is as if Amazon and Facebook both invested in Unibail-Rodamco / Westfield...

26 February 2018

“Who’s the boss” new grocery brand is expected in Spain and Brazil

After the wave of retail private labels, a new brand created by consumers has launched in Europe. Sophie Baqué met Nicolas Chabanne, co-founder of “Who’s the boss” and partner Gilles Tisserand...

16 February 2018

“We are the boss”

Whilst consumer mistrust has spread across traditional business and the associated inaccurate content of goods, this has sparked new and exciting initiatives in the form of “niche” brands. These...

16 February 2018

Non-compete clauses shape retail

In Europe, “non-compete” clauses are increasingly prevalent in the highly competitive fashion and beauty sectors. “Prada and LVMH are among the strictest firms in this field with...

18 January 2018

A new C.E.O. at Neiman Marcus

C.E.O. Karen Katz (aged 60) will retire in February 2017 but remain on the Board. Katz worked at the high-end department stores since 1985 and was C.E.O. since 2010. Geoffroy van Raemdonck (aged...

18 January 2018

Galeries Lafayette shuffles Directors

Eager to fuel global growth, France’s largest department store chain Galeries Lafayette (GL) promoted Philippe Pedone from C.F.O. (since 2012) to the head of the International Development. A...

18 January 2018

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