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Although European countries have historically been among the largest private label markets in the world, 2022 and Q1 2023 have seen a major shift towards private labels in most markets. Private...

16 May 2023

Peter Pernot-Day, Shein: “With our production model, we have an unsold rate of 10%”

The Singaporean ultra-fast fashion retailer, which is due to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is estimated as the world’s third largest fashion retailer. While Shein is accused of forced...

16 May 2023

European sales of FMCG products in sharp drop since January

According to Circana/IRI data supplied to mind Retail, unit sales of FMCG products accelerated a fall in January and February 2023, after a black year in Western...

15 May 2023

Chinese retail recovered growth in Q1 2023

In the first quarter, the Chinese economy grew by 4.5%. While the growth rate was 3.9% in Q3 and 2.9% in Q4 2022, this is the largest increase in a year. This rebound in G.D.P. shows that the...

11 May 2023

How e-retail media technology companies are positioning themselves

Criteo, Publicis with Citrus Ad, Mirakl Ads, Microsoft with PromoteIQ, Casino with RelevanC and Tryger are the main players offering technologies dedicated to retail media in France. When did they...

11 May 2023

Leroy Merlin arrives in Senegal with Jumia

On March 22, Leroy Merlin signed an agreement with the pure player Jumia to launch into Senegal with 700 products. Since 2019, 1,500 products of the D.I.Y. chain are already distributed by Jumia...

9 May 2023

D.S.A.: Zalando added to platforms subject to stronger regulations

On Monday 25th April, the European Commission published a list of 19 online services, including 17 “very large online platforms (V.L.O.P.s)”, subject to legal obligations under the...

5 May 2023

China : Alibaba and JD.com spin-offs delight investors

On 30th March 2023, JD.com announced a spin-off of property and industrial units from the core business in order to list these on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the listing documents filed on...

4 May 2023

Armani unveils new property project in Dubai

Armani (2021 turnover of €2 billion, up by 26% vs 2020) with an interior design division, Armani / Casa, has partnered with property developer Arada to create a luxury residential complex in...

4 May 2023

Coty, Estée Lauder, L’Oréal: China at the heart of the strategy

Cosmetics giants have accelerated their investments and development for the Chinese market in 2022, including new outlets and building innovation centres. We consider the main strategies.

4 May 2023

[Amazon results] Focus on A.I. to revive AWS, a declining source of profitability in Q1

Whilst Amazon's e-commerce business is losing momentum (down by 0.1% year-on-year), the AWS cloud service is recording the slowest growth since 2015. To improve profitability, the tech giant is...

4 May 2023

Galeries Lafayette: New impetus in China, concern for the 25 French stores in provinces

While Galeries Lafayette has signed with a new Chinese partner, in France, the financial safeguard procedure for 26 department stores raises stakes of territory appeal at a national level.

28 April 2023

Decathlon relies on Heyteam on-boarding to optimise integration of dual work-study

From 2021, the sporting goods retailer Decathlon partnered with a Heyteam staff induction platform to seamlessly integrate new work-study students. These have more than doubled in three years. The...

28 April 2023

How Etam wants to generate additional revenue from in-store returns

The underwear retailer Etam (804 stores in 45 countries in late 2022, including 593 fully-owned), whose 90% of sales are generated by stores and 10% online, added a “return management”...

28 April 2023

For 30% of retailers, staff spend too much time managing returns

According to a survey of 500 fashion retailers in the U.S.A. and the U.K. by the R.F.I.D. specialist SML Group, a third of retailers say they spend too much time processing returns manually. This...

27 April 2023

Sephora partners with Pact Collective to collect more empty packaging

In the U.S.A. and Canada, Sephora (LVMH, 17% organic growth in Q1 2023, as in 2022) signed a partnership with Pact Collective. This project, called Beauty (Re)Purposed, aims at collecting empty...

27 April 2023

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With turnover down by 5.3% over 9 months, URW announces departure of Jean-Marie Tritant

In parallel with the release of 2025 3rd quarter results showing decreasing sales, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is initiating a major governance change. Chairman Jean-Marie Tritant, will step down at...

27 October 2025