Sophie Baqué
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Reelevant raises €6 million in Series A
The start-up specialising in marketing message personalisation won 20 clients last year, with contracts worth over €300,000. This funding of less than €4 million in equity will be invested in...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
29 April 2025
Karine Abbou: “Since the arrival of Chat GPT, there’s been an earthquake at Google”
Generative AI was born in the U.S.A. in November 2022. Where do American retailers stand? On the whole, the Americans, like the French, are in the early stages of this process. On the surface...
- Retail
- Analysis
- News brief
31 August 2023
Sandro : Second-hand, a profitable business from the first year
After 12 months of operations, Sandro shared with mind Retail the results of their second-hand business, which launched 100% online. For the fashion brand, this service is now at a "roll-out...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
13 April 2023
BNPL: Klarna to charge late payment penalties to British users
As it already does in the Netherlands and in Belgium, the BNPL specialist Klarna will introduce penalty fees in the U.K., starting March 16, 2023. According to mind Fintech, £5 will be...
- Retail
- News brief
7 March 2023
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Digital marketing: Wethenew partners with Adsteroid
Eager to accelerate growth, the pure-player of limited edition sneakers Wethenew, signed up with Adsteroid, a specialist in performance advertising. The DNVB, which is about to make inroads in...
- Retail
- News
5 May 2022
Galeries Lafayette and Printemps eye retail media potential
…Galeries Lafayette and Printemps are considering the potential of retail media. With margin rates of around 40%, retail media does not leave retailers indifferent. According to our...
- Retail
- News brief
4 May 2022
Case study: The numerical assessment of We Play Circular by Decathlon
Decathlon has set up We Play Circular, a monthly subscription allowing customers to use the whole range of a store. Luc Teerlinck, founder of the system, gives an update on the results obtained...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
25 April 2022
Loyalty: Camaieu’s ‘walletised’ customers spend more
Camaieu unveils results of the merger of a loyalty card into the customers digital wallet. Results show that customers who have "walletised" a loyalty card buy more items than other customers...
Mangopay is now American
Advent International acquired Mangopay, a payment solution for marketplaces,without revealing the investment. As a previous owner, Credit Mutuel Arkea is reinvesting in Mangopay as a minority...
- Retail
- News brief
15 April 2022
Metro, Auchan, Spar… pressure is tightening on the Russian footprint
Retailers that continue operating in Russia emphasise responsibility as employers, but are nevertheless facing growing criticism. This is a dilemma for retail multinationals, which are also...
- Retail
- News
29 March 2022
Casino opts for a split of its financial division
After a very difficult year for Casino, the pressure of the financial markets is increasing and it is time for the financial services to make big moves.
- Retail
- News
15 March 2022
USA. Professionals clients feed growth of D.I.Y. retailers
Criticism for the wave of D.I.Y. enthusiasts. In a survey published in January by Lowe’s, the majority of homeowners regret personally starting on projects that were too complex. To complete...
- Retail
- News brief
3 March 2022
Klarna rolls out “Buy Now Pay Later” offers
Klarna, Swedish specialist of “Buy Now, Pay Later” completed a US$639 million capital increase on June 10. This new capital values Klarna at US$45.6 billion. In March 2021, the...
- Retail
- News
- News brief
21 June 2021
CGI. “Improve the shopping experience by spending less time in the store.”
As the crisis retreats, a gradual retail recovery is giving rise to different concerns, fresh expectations and new consumption patterns. Arnaud Cartigny, Vice-President of Retail Consulting at...
- Retail
- News
2 June 2020
Victoria Glanz, Fullet : “Big retailers will come out of this crisis in a better position”
Based in Shanghai, Victoria Glanz is Senior Partner at Full Jet, an agency that supports retailers on the Alibaba’s platforms Taobao and Tmall (824 million monthly active users in total in 2019)...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
20 May 2020
Mark Thomson, Zebra : “Self-scanning and contactless payment is now booming in Europe”
Zebra delivers software and solutions that helps retailers to elevate customers’ shopping experience, to track and manage inventory and to improve supply chain efficiency. Sophie Baqué discussed...
- Retail
- News
5 May 2020
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Shoprite adopts Yoobic solution for 3,600 stores and 160,000 employees
As announced in April in mind Retail, the African grocery retailer Shoprite has confirmed the rollout of the Yoobic application to optimise staff task management and anomaly detection in stores...
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
29 October 2025
Faced with debt and declining sales, Fossil files for bankruptcy
Competition from Apple and Samsung in the smartwatch segment, collapsing sales, customs tariffs… Cornered with a debt of US$179 million, Fossil has filed several bankruptcy petitions in the U.S.A...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
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...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News brief
27 October 2025
Verizon, Starbucks, DoorDash and Grubhub impacted by AWS outage
On October 20, 2025, the Amazon Web Services cloud (Amazon Q2 2025 revenue: 168 billion dollars, up by 13.3%) was down for several hours before returning to normal. Numerous websites and...
27 October 2025
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Lululemon, Ralph Lauren, Gap and Levi’s enter peak season with high stock levels
Faced with rising customs tariffs affecting US imports, several retailers have built up significant inventories. Over a year, the stocks of Gap, Levi’s, Lululemon, Ralph Lauren and Academy Sports...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
27 October 2025
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Faced with debt and declining sales, Fossil files for bankruptcy
Competition from Apple and Samsung in the smartwatch segment, collapsing sales, customs tariffs… Cornered with a debt of US$179 million, Fossil has filed several bankruptcy petitions in the U.S.A...
- Retail
- Economy and regulators
- News
29 October 2025
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AI search engines: how advertising is entering the conversation
While many retailers spend 80% of their acquisition budget on Google Shopping, monetisation tests are accelerating on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. How much of the budget will they absorb...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
23 October 2025
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[mind Exclusive] After signing Fusalp and Ysé, Webyn relies on Gemini to boost the performance of e-commerce A/B testing
Awarded on October 13, 2025, in the category of the Customer Relationship Awards, the start-up specialising in e-commerce A/B testing continues to grow. For mind Retail, C.E.O. and Co-Founder...
- Retail
- info-mind
- Retail tech
23 October 2025
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Antoine Jouteau, Leboncoin : “We are launching our first warranty offer for multimedia products”
As Leboncoin prepares to celebrate a 20th anniversary in 2026, mind Retail interviewed Antoine Jouteau, the outgoing Chief Executive Officer. As Jacob Aqraou, Executive Chairman of the Board of...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
13 October 2025
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Cyberattack: Muji, Loft and Sogo & Seibu e-commerce sites down in Japan
Since October 19, Japanese logistics company Askul (2024 revenue: 3.3 billion dollars, up by 2% year-on-year) has been the victim of a cyberattack, preventing it from managing e-commerce orders...
27 October 2025