Sophie Baqué

At the inauguration of a first Ikea store in Paris within its own shopping centre, C.E.O. Jesper Brodin confirmed his retail and CSR priorities for 2025. With more than 10,000 appointments per...

After receiving agreement from French competition authority to take over the La Grande Récré stores, the JouéClub retailer presented a roadmap for the Christmas period on September 11. E-commerce...

Following the approval given by the Italian financial markets authority on August 23, Italian home-electrical retailer Unieuro (2023 sales of €2.63 billion) has until October 25 to accept...

Customer data, at the heart of retailing assets, is also of use to cybercriminals. After Zadig & Voltaire and LDLC, Truffaut, Boulanger and Cultura have now fallen victim. Pepe Jeans and...

While Carrefour is gradually withdrawing from Africa, the group (2023 sales of €92 billion, up 10.4% on a like-for-like basis via 14,000 stores in 40 countries) announced on September 9 a...

The Jérôme Gayet Foundation is unusual in that it is made up of volunteer mentors, mainly from the retail, e-commerce and tech sectors. It will be celebrating a fifth anniversary in 2025. As new...

On September 3, according to Office Chai, Indian omnichannel fashion and beauty retailer Nykka (US$770 million turnover in 2023, up 24%, 200 stores in 72 Indian cities) launched a 3-hour delivery...

TikTok has until the end of January 2025 to meet an ultimatum set by the USA. Meanwhile, Frenchman Xavier Niel joined the Board of Directors of ByteDance, TikTok's parent company.

In the Eurozone, the HICP (Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices) rose by 2.5% in June 2024 (annual change), a level that has been broadly stable since January. In the food sector in particular...

Three years ago, North American convenience stores specialist Couche Tard failed to takeover Carrefour. On August 19, the owner of Circle K stores (sales of US$69.3 billion in the year to April...

While Walmart is introducing new categories of second-hand products to its marketplace, Ikea is testing a version of C2C digital marketplace. While this approach has not been successful for...

In both the UK and the USA, TikTok Shop is gaining market share in the fashion and beauty categories. In the first half of 2024, the TikTok e-commerce service became the 10th-largest e-tailer in...