Sophie Baqué
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Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer
While the leader in electronic labels, Vusion exceeded €1.47 billion in revenue in 2025, rival Hanshow is stepping up a global offensive, winning a strategic account in the U.K. and a new POC for...
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- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
27 February 2026
BNPL: Between healthcare and retail, Scalapay accelerates a P.O.S. offensive with two major signings
Building on a strong foothold in fashion, Scalapay is strengthening in-store penetration targeting players in the healthcare sector. According to our information, the Italian BNPL unicorn has...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
25 February 2026
Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership
As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
13 March 2026
Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
- Retail
- Property and investors
- Analysis
24 February 2026
Latest articles by Sophie Baqué
Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership
As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
13 March 2026
Bertrand Bourgeois, Schiever : “We reduced our energy bill by 35% with a total elimination of gas”
Schiever is simultaneously managing operational efficiency goals and an historic transition to Cooperative U. The group, now the biggest U cooperator, relies on an unprecedented shareholding...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- Analysis
13 March 2026
After-sales service: Prolong aims to become the OS of repair and adds 3 luxury brands
Signing of three high-end clients, launch of a maintenance passport, imminent Seed funding round and cloud migration project in China… At a 1-to-1 conference in Monaco, the Founder of Prolong...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
12 March 2026
Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer
While the leader in electronic labels, Vusion exceeded €1.47 billion in revenue in 2025, rival Hanshow is stepping up a global offensive, winning a strategic account in the U.K. and a new POC for...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
27 February 2026
BNPL: Between healthcare and retail, Scalapay accelerates a P.O.S. offensive with two major signings
Building on a strong foothold in fashion, Scalapay is strengthening in-store penetration targeting players in the healthcare sector. According to our information, the Italian BNPL unicorn has...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
25 February 2026
Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
- Retail
- Property and investors
- Analysis
24 February 2026
Regional consolidation versus global expansion: Prestashop and Shopify reinvent ecosystems
Prestashop is consolidating its position in the heart of Europe: acquired by Poland's Cyber Folks in a €53-million deal, it is joining forces with Sylius and BitBag to create an open-source giant...
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- Retail tech
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20 February 2026
Cyberattack: leak of 37 million customer records at ManoMano
On February 10, 2026, D.I.Y. pure player ManoMano (GMV 2024: 1 billion euros) officially notified customers of a data leak that occurred in January 2026, affecting 37 million customer records...
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- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
20 February 2026
AI, advertising, subscriptions, marketplace: how Walmart made e-commerce profitable in 2025
Walmart confirms a strategic shift, with 713 billion dollars in revenue in 2025 and a valuation up 600 billion dollars in 2 years. The group has maintained growth and is accelerating high-margin...
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- Economy and regulators
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20 February 2026
Find out who is replacing Arnaud Gallet as Head of NRF Europe
According to our information, the succession at the head of NRF Europe and SIEC is now finalized. An executive from a major international event company took up her position at Comexposium in...
19 February 2026
TikTok, Meta, Snapchat: how regulatory constraints are reshuffling cards for customer engagement
In Europe, the European Commission is holding TikTok accountable by demanding the redesign of an interface deemed addictive, under pressure from a strengthened regulatory framework spearheaded by...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- Analysis
19 February 2026
In 2025, French e-commerce confirmed resilience and reached 25% of non-food retail
Against a backdrop of sluggish consumption, e-commerce remained the main driver of French retail widening the gap with physical stores. According to Marc Lolivier, Fevad's General Delegate, online...
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- Economy and regulators
- News
18 February 2026
What you absolutely must read this week
The essential content of the week selected by the editorial team.
Agentic commerce : After Stripe, Mirakl partners with JPMorgan Payments
On March 10, 2026, Mirakl and JPMorgan Payments (JPMP) unveiled a partnership to deploy agentic commerce by combining the Mirakl Nexus agentic orchestration platform with the U.S. bank’s...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
16 March 2026
Aroma-Zone and Najar reveal the behind-the-scenes of a strategic partnership
As the adoption of AI results in increasing cost volatility for companies, mind Retail spoke in Monaco with Christelle Glaszer, Manager of Indirect Purchases at Aroma-Zone natural beauty retailer...
- Retail
- mind Exclusive
- Retail tech
13 March 2026
Online authentification : Prelude expands a “message free” solution globally
A competitor to Twilio, Vonage and Plivo, the French startup Prelude, which has 75 retail clients, is actively deploying Prelude Zero, an authentication method that requires no message delivery...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- Analysis
13 March 2026
Social media & age verification: Tech breaks the glass ceiling of precision
As an array of international governments restrict social networks access for teenagers under 15 or 16, new facial recognition technologies from Yoti, Persona and k-ID are making progress in...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
13 March 2026
Most viewed articles of the month on mind Retail
What readers clicked on the most last month.
What readers clicked on the most last month.
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Profound raises US$96 million in Series C funding, becoming a first GEO unicorn
Founded in 2024 in New York by James Cadwallader, GEO startup Profound raised US$96 million on February 24, 2026, in a Series C round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, including Sequoia Capital...
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- Property and investors
- News
25 February 2026
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Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income
Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...
- Retail
- Property and investors
- Analysis
24 February 2026