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Shein hires Lazada’s Vice President
With the appointment of Jessica Liu, formerly of Alibaba and Lazada, as Vice President, the fast fashion giant is making a new move.
16 December 2022
TJX Companies: new C.F.O. for outlet giant
US outlet retailer TJX Co. appointed John Klinger as new C.F.O. His mission is to boost the high margin business, that already takes advantage of overstock issues. 
1 December 2022
“77% of retailers want to increase the drive-to-store portion of their advertising investment”
By Sandrine Prefaut, Managing Director of S4M in France. Operating in 10 countries (USA, Canada, France, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Benelux, Asia-Pacific region…), S4M is an international “drive to...
13 January 2022
The young designer of Parade wants to dethrone Victoria Secret
The news is rich for the highly emblematic Cami Téllez, Founder of Parade, a direct-to-consumer lingerie brand currently valued at US$140 million. In November 2021, she opened her first...
3 December 2021
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1999-2019. Twenty years of retail…and the future?
In 2019, retailers and their customers have become more connected and global than ever. For this special 20-year edition of Global Retail News, we interviewed some of the world’s most influent...
10 September 2019
Furniture & deco. What the ‘connected’ generation wants
To win digitally-connected customers, retailers continue to adapt. If traditional companies have significantly changed their strategies, some new players like Casper, Wayfair and Made.com operate...
13 February 2019
Retail is « Datail »
Algorithms. Data science. Robotics. Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps retailers to handle a vast amount of challenges, including optimisation of supply-chain management in real time, delivery...
16 January 2019
The North Face prefers mobile P.O.S. in prototype store
After a 12-month search for a site, outerwear specialist The North Face opened a 372 sq. prototype store in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg. “We consider this as a retail laboratory. This...
12 December 2018
Future Malls: How URW invents the place to go
How should we define a future Mall and commercial partnerships in this new data era? Following the merger with Westfield in June 2017, Global Retail News asked Christophe Cuvillier, Group CEO of...
10 December 2018
“Travel Retail is the most interesting segment of retail today with e-commerce”
Airport retailing is booming as the number of travelers and low-cost airlines explode. The travel retail market has tripled in size since 2002. However, shifting demographics (like Millenials)...
12 November 2018
Generation Z brings new challenges for Retail
How can retailers and brands engage with “Gen Zens”? This generation (teenagers aged less than 18) will represent 32% of the global population by 2019, but without the same spending profile as...
8 October 2018
Expansion : “Brazil is not a market for amateurs”
Brazilians hold General elections in October, including for the office of President. Struck by a severe recession, is Brazil still an attractive market for retailers ? Global Retail News gives...
11 September 2018
When the “clicks” inspire the “bricks”
Whilst many brands are developing physical stores, two retail models stand out, at odds from each other. Traditional “retailers” are typically characterised by a large sales area and an array of...
31 July 2018
Are retailers heading towards a zero plastic strategy ?
Plastic is derived from fossil fuels and often made for a single use. It ends up in landfills and in all oceans, infiltrating all living creatures (including us) in the form of tiny “micro...
2 June 2018
The Future of Retail by Jerry Storch
Editor Marie Driscoll met the veteran retail executive Jerry Storch. As founder of Storch Advisors his career of over 30 years included prime role such as Vice Chairman of Target hypermarkets...
23 May 2018
New Look reduces its British footprint
The fashion retailer New Look, owned by the South African investing company Brait since 2015, has commenced a cost-reduction restructuring. This aims to cut 10% of the store network, i.e. 60 out...
13 April 2018
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29 October 2025
Faced with debt and declining sales, Fossil files for bankruptcy
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29 October 2025
EU: Omnibus bill stalled in Parliament
On October 22, MEPs rejected by a narrow majority the negotiating mandate that would have allowed trilogue negotiations to begin on the omnibus directive watering down the CSRD and duty of care...
Verizon, Starbucks, DoorDash and Grubhub impacted by AWS outage
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