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In India, an array of retailers predicts a sales drop of two-digits over the next few months. For Vivek Bali, Business Director of Sephora in India, sales of the chain of beauty stores could drop...

12 January 2017

MOROCCO MALL, THE MALL OF THE MONTH

In Casablanca, the owner of Morocco Mall has a vertical business strategy. We investigate how this mall keeps attracting tenants, despite mixed results.

12 January 2017

DECATHLON MAKES INROADS IN IVORY COAST

The Decathlon sporting goods retailer (turnover of €9.1 billion in 2015) has made its foray in Ivory Coast on December 10, 2016, in the city of Abidjan. The store has a sales area of 1,200...

12 January 2017

SHOPRITE AND STEINHOFF MAY CREATE AN AFRICAN RETAIL GIANT

The South African giant Steinhoff International Holdings is hungry for acquisitions. After taking over the British discount retailer Poundland and U.S. specialty retailer Mattress Firm (the...

12 January 2017

SELLING EDUCATION BOOTS REVENUE FOR U.S. MALLS

In the U.S.A., landlords are looking for new tenants to engage shoppers with new creative offerings, including teaching new skills in a casual atmosphere. Such new services generates more...

12 January 2017

NATURA CHANGES THE BRAZILIAN BUSINESS MODEL

To recover revenue growth and innovation, the direct-selling retailer Natura Cosmeticos aims to open a large number of stores in the next 5 years. “We are fully committed to direct sales...

12 January 2017

U.S. and China. Which future for retail?

Chinese firms are already reassessing their investment projects in the United States of America following the election of Donald Trump on November 8, 2016 and his controversial Tweeter statements...

12 January 2017

AMAZON, THE CONCEPT OF THE MONTH

In Germany, the Centro shopping centre in Oberhausen has housed a 35 sq.m Amazon corner since October 2016. This store sells exclusively electronic products and related accessories (tablets...

12 January 2017

A weaker retail sector in Turkey

In Turkey, business is complicated for those who disagree with the President Erdogan. The owning family of the Modern East Mall, opened in the Asian part of Istanbul in May 2016 (60,000 sq.m GLA...

12 January 2017

Brussels combats retail tax avoidance

In Europe, the Green deputies have reported that Inditex, the world’s largest fashion retailer by sales (revenues of €16.4 billion in the 9 months to October 2016, up by 11%) set up...

12 January 2017

Decathlon rolls out its urban format

In the last years, the French sporting goods retailer Decathlon used Spain to pilot smaller shops, but the chain has now expanded into a European landscape in order to rationalize retail sq.m. For...

12 January 2017

Rocher Group consolidates internationally

Eager to accelerate international growth, the Rocher Group (Yves Rocher beauty stores and Petit Bateau fashion stores, sales of €2 billion in 2015) announced a first entry into Japan, the...

12 January 2017

Luke Lim, AS Louken, Singapore: “Alibaba is likely to keep investing in brick & mortar retailers”

Three questions to Luke Lim, C.E.O. of AS Louken consulting firm based in Singapore.

12 January 2017

CHINESE FAILURES : WHAT WENT WRONG FOR RETAILERS?

In 2016, several foreign retailers closed operations in China, where the retail market is increasingly mature and competitive. What did not work? Between e-commerce business, building flagships or...

12 January 2017

More than one billion mobile subscribers in Africa

According to Ovum, the African continent will have more than one billion active phone chips in the end of 2016 and 1.3 billion in 2021. If the number of subscribers has slowed,

24 December 2016

“Dior Beauty” lands in the World Trade Centre…

After Las Vegas, Dallas and San José, a 58-sq.m “Dior Beauty” store opened in New York, within the brand-new Westfield mall. To attract young women, often courted by independent...

24 December 2016

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