Sophie Baqué

Since 2020, the start-up Join Stories has been enabling e-retailers to integrate 15-second video or photo stories -made popular by Instagram- into their websites and apps. With a client portfolio...

Just a day apart, URW and Klepierre, Europe’s two leading shopping centre operators, released robust annual results. For URW, the advertising business accounted for more than 50% of net margin in...

With the General Product Safety Regulation coming into force on 13 December 2024, but with no enforcement guidelines having been published since, mind Retail spoke with Gero Furchheim, the new...

On February 5, the European Commission presented a set of measures to limit entry into the EU of e-commerce parcels deemed not to comply with local standards. These are mostly sold by Asian...

From search results to the catalogue, product recommendations, logistics and advertising, AI infuses all ManoMano teams. Armelle Patault, VP Data of the DIY marketplace, shared results.

Driven by e-commerce, the marketplace, the cloud and advertising - four entities that have each generated more than US$10 billion in incremental revenue - Amazon ended 2024 with solid fundamentals...

Patricia Grundmann, VP Media & Retail Media at German D.I.Y. retailer Obi Group Holding, told mind Retail all about her plans for the transformation of the company in 2025. This includes a...

In a French furniture market down by 5.1% to €13.8 billion in 2024 (IPEA), Maisons du Monde (338 stores at the end of 2024) reported annual sales of €1.002 billion on February 4, down...

With its number of screens in France up by 14% in 2024, in-Store Media is launching new strategic projects. According to our sources, the group is working on installing computer vision tools on...

In 2024, inflation reached a moderate level of +2.4% in both the Eurozone and the U.S.A. In the long term, the gap in terms of consumption is real: over 3 years, food inflation reached +25% in...

Dutch retailer Action (shareholder 3i) ended 2024 with sales of €13.8 billion, up 21.7% overall and 10.3% on a like-for-like basis. It has 2,918 stores in 12 European countries, including 29%...

Despite the inflation slowdown, French consumers did not move upmarket in 2024, according to the annual report from Circana institute, which was formed by the merger of IRI and NPD. Over a...