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According to a survey by Fung Global Retail & Technology, Millennials (i.e. people born between 1980 and 2000) accounted for 27% of the total population in the combined U.S. and major European...

20 December 2016

FMCG. The average consumer spend is higher online

According to a study conducted by Kantar Worldpanel of 500,000 consumers across three continents, online sales accounted for 4.4% of all Fast-Moving Consumer Goods sales (F.M.C.G.). In the 12...

20 December 2016

A race to the best retail space

As a growing share of retail sales now happen outside stores, how are retail property owners seeing the future? Between brand exposure and rationalisation, how should retailers operate their store...

20 December 2016

Supermarket digital walls travel to the Netherlands

After South Korea, virtual stores have appeared in Continental Europe.

19 November 2016

“Retailers should accelerate their innovation pace”

Sophie Baqué met Nick Lansley, an expert in retail innovation. After 27 years at Tesco, he explains why retailers must boost their pace of innovation to meet the expectations of today’s customers...

19 November 2016

“Fossil needs one outlet store for every 10 full price stores”

16 October 2016

Outlets & pure players. The race for bargains

With the rise of online private sales, traditional outlet centres offering discounts to clear inventory are facing new rivals for command of their domain. Are retailers favouring online or offline...

1 October 2016

South African Steinhoff invests in the U.S. and in Europe

The South African value retailer Steinhoff International is making inroads into the United States after investing US$2.4 billion for Mattress Firm, including net debts. Mattress Firm is the...

19 September 2016

Leroy Merlin has eyes on South Africa

As an unusual trans-continental focus, the D.I.Y. retailer Leroy Merlin (part of Adeo Group) is preparing to open sales operations for South Africa in 2018, according to Planet Retail. After 10...

19 September 2016

“Returning products, when and how I want”

Jim Okamura, Partner at Okamura Consulting in Chicago, and Bertrand Pineau, Logistics Director at Fevad online federation in Paris, explain how customer friendly policies for returning goods are a...

16 September 2016

Lessons of a master

Walter Loeb (aged 91) has lived more lives than many of us. Born in Germany in 1925, he escaped the Holocaust and emigrated to first Italy and then to the U.S.A, including fighting in France on...

10 September 2016

From Target to Uber

Transportation firms are now poaching the best retail executives. Jeffrey Jones, (aged 48) will join Uber to be President of ride-sharing at Uber, acting as Deputy to the C.E.O. Travis Kalanick...

10 September 2016

A new Director for I.C.S.C.

American executive Bill Kistler has been appointed as the Vice President and Managing Director of the ICSC for the Europe, Africa and Middle East region, reporting directly to President Tom McGee.

10 September 2016

Amazon leads the race ahead

Fung Global Retail & Technology has released an interesting study, which analyses Amazon’s stunning performance between 2010 and 2015. It compares Amazon and the largest retailers in the U.S.A.

10 September 2016

A new strategy for Carrefour-China

In H1 2016, Carrefour-China sales dropped by 13% to €2.71 billion. The group plans to open up to 50 convenience stores in Shanghai this year and is launching online operations in Chengdu, in...

10 September 2016

Myanmar is slowly opening to foreign retailers

In August, Japanese firm Aeon set up a joint venture with local firm “Creation” to launch supermarkets in Myanmar before December 2016 (capitalisation of US$8.1 million). The 1st...

10 September 2016

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