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Closures in the fashion sector, lower performance for supermarkets and household equipment farnchised stores, which underperformed the market... In France, the number of franchises fell by 1.4% in...

4 March 2025

APAC: occupancy rates rise, retail investment up 27% in 2024

In Japan, the Tokyu Plaza Ginza mall in Tokyo has been acquired in early February for US$1 billion by Gaw Capital and Patience Capital. Meanwhile, JLL reports that commercial property investment...

25 February 2025

Driven by property development, Emaar boosted revenue by a third in 2024

On February 14, 2025, Dubai-based property developer Emaar Properties (owner of office assets such as the Burj Khalifa, shopping malls, luxury hotels, etc.) announced a 33% increase in turnover in...

21 February 2025

USA: Quiksilver, Roxy and Volcom operator shuts down 122 Stores

On February 7, Liberated Brands (2022 revenue : US$422 million, up by 21%, with no new figures since) began closing 122 stores across the U.S.A. following a bankruptcy filing on February, 2. The...

17 February 2025

Klepierre expands through acquisitions, while Unibail safeguards margins with retail media

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...

17 February 2025

La Foir’fouille chooses Duval for franchise African expansion

On January 31, discount chain La Foir’fouille (steady 2023 sales at €815 million, target of €830 million for 2024) announced an African expansion via a master franchise agreement...

5 February 2025

Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, Abu Dhabi RDP: ‘The big risk is the postponement of key investments due to a lack of political visibility’

Impact of customs tariffs, continued cooling demand for luxury goods, wait-and-see attitude in terms of investments. At the NRF, Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, former C.E.O. of Emaar Malls and...

30 January 2025

Oman: Majid Al Futtaim wipes out Carrefour brand in favour of HyperMax

On January 7, 2025, Majid Al Futtaim (2023 sales : US$9.4 billion, up 1.1%, after 12% in 2022) began replacing the Carrefour brand with the HyperMax brand in Oman. The new HyperMax store brand...

23 January 2025

Ingka aims to inject €700 million into recycling over the next 5 years

On January 15, Ingka Group (2024 sales: €41.8 billion, down 5.6% year-on-year) announced an investment of €1 billion in recycling infrastructures. The budget allocated to the Circular...

17 January 2025

Gifi is entitled to a second chance, but Founder is not

On January 14 2025, the Founder of Gifi (sales of €1.3 billion in the fiscal year of 15 months to December 2023, 700 stores, 17 countries) obtained an agreement from creditors. According to...

16 January 2025

After Smallable and Wethenew, L’Exception goes under the Hong-Kong flag

Faced with the fragility of the fashion industry, Hong-Kong based fund AA Investments is continuing to acquire assets in difficulty. A latest acquisition is the online concept store L'Exception.

9 January 2025

Unibail Rodamco Westfield is increasing disposals, but wants to turn malls into media assets

While speeding up debt reduction, the property company sees retail media as a strategic asset. Two years after the creation of a dedicated advertising network called Westfield Rise, due to...

8 January 2025

Stores closures jumped by 28% in the U.K. in 2024

In 2024, the U.K. reported 13,479 store closures, an increase of 28% in a year, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR). These included Boots, Shoe Zone, Homebase and others. While 56%...

7 January 2025

Philippines’ SM Prime announces the opening of 5 new malls

SM Prime Holdings, the Philippine commercial property giant, is continuing to expand. With 5 openings planned for 2025 – 3 in the Philippines in Laoag, La Union and Zamboanga, and 2 in China...

11 December 2024

Commercial rents fell by 3.5% in Tokyo in the 1st half of the year

According to Savills’ October 2024 report, retail rents for ground floor stores in Tokyo fell by 3.5% in the 6 months to the end of June 2024. This fall in rental values is explained by the...

16 October 2024

Saudi Cenomi and GIB Capital launch a €245 million retail property fund

On October 8, 2024, in Saudi Arabia, mall developer Cenomi Centres (66 million visitors in H1 2024, 92.5% occupancy rate) joined forces with investment fund GIB Capital (a branch of Gulf...

15 October 2024

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Hugues Chanoine (Hygie31 Digital): “The next step is to eliminate filters to move to 100% conversational search”

The Hygie31 retail group, known for the Lafayette Pharmacies, is continuing to transform its websites, driven by Cocooncenter. Thanks to an AI strategy and a fully redesigned IT architecture, it...

10 September 2026

ChatGPT: Bureau Vallée’s recipe to capture back-to-school spending

By launching a conversational chatbot with Algolia and a new module converting school lists into e-commerce carts this summer, Bureau Vallée aims to ease the chore of back-to-school supply list...

10 September 2026

Fnac Darty to launch Wero on its e-commerce sites

According to our information, Fnac Darty is about to deploy European payment solution Wero, based on account-to-account instant transfers, on its e-commerce sites. Already active in Germany at...

4 September 2026

Why Shein emits twice as much CO2 as Inditex for equivalent revenue

On the occasion of an IPO, Shein revealed a carbon footprint of 25.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, up by 20% compared to a reference year. For an equivalent sales level, the fast...

3 September 2026

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Before an IPO, Shein forced to reveal margin erosion in 2025 and impact of US tariff shock

Made public ahead of a Hong Kong listing planned for September, Shein’s financial documents, seen by mind Retail, confirm the shift experienced by the fast-fashion retailer. Despite a 8% sales...

21 August 2026