Sophie Baqué
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Criteo appoints Gregory Mialhe as Retail Media Director for France
Criteo announced on December 16 the appointment of Grégory Mialhe as Retail Media Director for France. The former Director of Marketing and Direct Sales at Retailink by Fnac Darty...
- Retail
- Retail tech
22 December 2025
Walmart and Instacart bet on AI agents to simplify basket creation
In the U.S.A., Walmart has partnered with Pinterest and Instacart with ChatGPT to simplify and speed up the creation of online grocery baskets. Details below.
- Retail
- Retail tech
- News
12 December 2025
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
Latest articles by Sophie Baqué
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
“Chinese may (carefully) return to stores. Or perhaps not.”
As a retail expert based in Shanghai, Eric Song Yun is the Founder of Songyun Information Technology Co. For Global Retail News, he explained how business is resuming in China’s economic capital...
- Retail
- News
20 April 2020
Ingka Group. “Instead of building malls, we are looking to buy existing urban assets”
While Ikea has clearly prioritised city centre formats, Sophie Baqué met Jan Kristensson, in charge of the brand's real estate strategy.
- Retail
- News
18 March 2020
With Greenweez, Carrefour aims to become Europe’s n°1 organic e-retailer
The organic market is gaining customer traction, both online and in physical stores. Greenweez.com, a Carrefour subsidiary which specialises in online grocery, is moving pawns into Europe. Sophie...
- Retail
- News
12 December 2019
« THERE ARE MANY OPPORTUNITIES IN ONLINE SALES AND DRIVE »
3 questions to Gary Swindells, C.E.O. of Costco-France
- Retail
- News
3 October 2019
Adrien Fabry, Phoceis: “Without a long-term project and a budget exceeding €100,000, do not plan to sell via social e-commerce in China”
A further route to sell into China with online retail is social commerce, led by WeChat (Tencent Group). This all-purpose app includes a messaging system, a social network, an online sales...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
21 May 2019
“Who’s the boss” new grocery brand is expected in Spain and Brazil
After the wave of retail private labels, a new brand created by consumers has launched in Europe. Sophie Baqué met Nicolas Chabanne, co-founder of “Who’s the boss” and partner Gilles Tisserand...
- Retail
- News
16 February 2018
D.I.Y. ‘‘At Mano Mano, we have a wide-open opportunity ahead of us”
Becoming Europe’s biggest online retailer of D.I.Y. and gardening products is the grand ambition of Mano Mano, a specialised and fast-growing marketplace, which fills a gap unexploited by the...
- Retail
- News
18 January 2018
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...
- Retail
- 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