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The U.S. Commerce Department reported that in September 2016, department store sales fell by 6.4% year-on-year, compared to an increase of 6.1% for restaurants and bars and 11% for online sales. A...

24 December 2016

No more C.E.O. at Richemont

The world’s 2nd largest luxury retailer by sales doesn’t need a C.E.O. Richard Lepeu will step down in March 2017 and will not be replaced. To ease decisions, the head of each large...

20 December 2016

People inside, really?

In a study of 800 C.E.O.s from global firms, Korn Ferry measured what they believe can generate profit and how people may fit that vision. C.E.O.s say that technology will create greater value in...

20 December 2016

A new C.E.O. at Natura

Roberto de Lima has resigned as President of Natura Cosmeticos after just 2 years, effective immediately.

20 December 2016

BHV department store to open in Dubai

The 1st BHV unit in the Emirates will open on

20 December 2016

Gap reinvents itself in Dubai…

In November, the world’s 1st GapFit store (clothes for women, men and children) opened in Jumeirah Beach. This 90 sq.m store is run by Al Tayer Group, which also runs Gap stores in the Gulf.

20 December 2016

Kiabi is now active in Congo…

On December 8, the fashion retailer Kiabi has opened a 1st store in Brazzaville (1,250 sq.m) in Grand Fleuve mall, in partnership with Mercure International of Monaco.

20 December 2016

Which are the world’s most expensive High Streets?

After years of tremendous growth, the world’s highest rental values have reached a plateau in 2016. How can they recover growth again?

20 December 2016

U.A.E. Emaar’s owner wants to create an Arabic Amazon

Eager to tap the small but growing online sales market in the Arabian Gulf (sales of US$5.3 billion in 2015), Emirati businessman Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties, has launched Noon...

20 December 2016

China faces a million-baby boom…

As the one-child policy was relaxed in October 2015, allowing couples to have 2 children, the government announces that the birth rate will grow by 5.7% in 2016.

20 December 2016

Malaysia will house Asia’s biggest outlet centre…

The 2nd construction phase of the Mitsui Outlet Park KLIA has started in Sepang, near Kuala Lumpur airport. Developers are Mitsui Fudosan from Japan and the public firm Malaysia Airports Holdings...

20 December 2016

Esprit will sell online in India…

The fashion retailer Esprit has signed an exclusive partnership with online fashion retailer Myntra (owned by Flipkart, India’s largest online retailer by sales). Esprit will sell its women...

20 December 2016

Can Aldi succeed in China?

According to an Aldi’s spokeswoman in Australia, the German discount retailer will make inroads in China in the 1st half 2017, starting with a website selling ambient products and beverages...

20 December 2016

China is the 1st market for connected appliances…

According to Euromonitor, China will account for half of the world’s market of connected appliances this year, with 15 million units sold out of 30 million in total.

20 December 2016

Fashion retailers refine their strategy

For Etam Group (women’s fashion and lingerie, more than €1.3 billion in sales in 2015), the Chinese business model

20 December 2016

Yum wants to invest in delivery

The fast-food operator Yum-China (7,300 KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants in China, more than US$8 billion in sales last year) has changed owner last month and is now controlled by new Asian...

20 December 2016

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