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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

Casino – Teract: Intermarché is joining the fray

Interrupting a proposed merger between Casino and Teract, Intermarché is joining the fray. The firm wants to take over about 100 Casino French supermarkets to gain 0.7% market share. This is...

25 April 2023

[Confidential] In 2022, King Jouet recorded only €150,000 in retail media revenue

Having initiating retail media in 2020 with Criteo, King Jouet (330 stores in France, Switzerland and Benelux, steady turnover of €412 million in 2022) the firm shared results...

21 April 2023

USA: Ikea invests €2 billion over 3 years with omnichannel

Boosted by the tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act from August 2022, Ikea is investing €2 billion over 3 years to turn the U.S.A. into the largest market by sales. However, on an annual...

21 April 2023

Neil Pein, BNP Paribas : “We will launch SoftPOS as a pilot in Q2 2023”

Axepta, which brings together cash solutions for retailers within BNP Paribas, integrated Floa's fractional payment offerings into customer service offerings in 2022. Neil Pein, Head of Payments...

21 April 2023

Food retail: 6 charts to understand the financial health of the world’s Top 10 in 2022

Rising costs, inflation, purchasing power. After 2 years of crazy growth boosted by Covid-19, 2022 was a good one in terms of sales, but not profitability. For the 2023 edition of this exclusive...

20 April 2023

Convenience: Japan’s 7-Eleven powerhouse eyes Europe sales

Since the beginning of 2023, competition has intensified in Europe with the arrival of new grocery operators. The Japanese giant Seven & I Holdings is about to make inroads in various...

18 April 2023

Guillaume Darrousez, CEO Petit Bateau: After 6 months, a second-hand spending customer starts buying our new products”

Guillaume Darrousez, C.E.O. of the Petit Bateau children's wear brand, was a guest of the latest FrenchFounders meeting in Paris, attended by mind Retail. He shared future plans to combine carbon...

14 April 2023

France, Spain and Portugal: split payment is more popular than deferred payment

According to Floa and Kantar, if payment facilities are growing with a rise of e-commerce, European countries show notable differences. In Germany, the use of deferred payment has tripled in 2022...

14 April 2023

Furniture : Conforama and But launch a joint advertising agency

On Monday April 3rd, the household equipment retailers But and Conforama (Mobilux) announced a joint retail media agency called Retailium Media. They will offer advertisers a...

14 April 2023

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Why Shein emits twice as much CO2 as Inditex for equivalent revenue

On the occasion of an IPO, Shein revealed a carbon footprint of 25.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, up by 20% compared to a reference year. For an equivalent sales level, the fast...

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Lidl’s owner continues cloud services offensive

With €2.2 billion in cloud revenue and growth 3 times faster than the rest of the business, Schwarz Group continues a technological shift. Between investments in its own data centres, buyouts in...

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