Sophie Baqué

Bijou Kurien is a member of the strategy Board at L-CATTERTON, the investment fund supported by LVMH. He decrypts for Global Retail News the current challenges of the transformation of "retail...

In China, the race for ultra-fast delivery has defeated Carrefour. This pressure continues to disrupt across the entire landscape of large food retailers. Carrefour has been selling into China for...

The Swiss-based but Hong Kong-listed beauty retailer posted net sales up by 8.7% to € 1.43 billion last year (1,572 units worldwide, +17 new units year-on-year). The 22% jump in net profits...

In June 2019, the Deliver conference in Lisbon gathered an array of specialists concerned with e-commerce deliveries. Faced with customers demanding speed with low prices, how much longer can...

The outlet sector was dominated by outlet centres and private sale websites. In China, the young online retailer Aikucun is disrupting this industry via a highly effective strategy. Sophie Baqué...

For traditional retailers, combining sustainability and profitability is a headache. Sophie Baqué met Mathieu Sauleau, Operational Director at Vilebrequin to understand how the swimsuit...

Sophie Baqué discussed with Mr. Massimo Volpe, President of the Federation of International Retail Associations (FIRA*), during the C.I.R.I.S. conference held in Shanghai in April 2019.

Exciting and frightening, ‘New retail’ is everywhere in Shanghai. Alongside the C.I.R.I.S. conference, Global Retail News met the Vice Presidents of Alibaba at their Hangzhou HQ, together with an...

In a US$130-million deal, the Dubai developer Emaar Malls took full control of the online Namshi fashion retailer, which reported sales of €202 million in 2018, an increase of 16%. The firm...

Eddie Lampert, often compared to Warren Buffet with a stellar performance of his ESL fund, has controlled Sears’s fate for 6 years. The former Goldman Sachs prodigy is now the largest...

Involved in a strategical shift, the Swedish Ikea Group is widening its city-centre footprint with an array of urban stores to open this year, including in Manhattan and in Paris (in May 2019...

According to a recent report from Bain & Company, the global personal luxury goods market is poised to grow by 6% to 8% in 2018, and reach US$ 446 billion by 2025. Digital players are...