Financing and expansion

In parallel with a diversification into make-up, Paco Rabanne announces the opening of a flagship store in New York. Meanwhile, Kering is due to acquire the Creed perfume brand. For the luxury...

On 30th March 2023, JD.com announced a spin-off of property and industrial units from the core business in order to list these on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the listing documents filed on...

Whilst Amazon's e-commerce business is losing momentum (down by 0.1% year-on-year), the AWS cloud service is recording the slowest growth since 2015. To improve profitability, the tech giant is...

While Galeries Lafayette has signed with a new Chinese partner, in France, the financial safeguard procedure for 26 department stores raises stakes of territory appeal at a national level.

Interrupting a proposed merger between Casino and Teract, Intermarché is joining the fray. The firm wants to take over about 100 Casino French supermarkets to gain 0.7% market share. This is...

Despite a departure of five senior executives since January 2023, Nykaa expects sales to grow by around 30% in the financial year ended in March 2023. On 5th April, the pure-player (which also...

While Walmart has managed to increase the weight of online sales in 2022, with total revenue growth keeping pace with inflation, the company is making supply-chain automation a priority. Within 3...

Taking advantage of TotalEnergies' withdrawal from petrol stations, the Canadian company Couche-Tard is filling the space and expanding operations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and...

In 2022, the world's largest fashion Inditex retailer posted a profit of €4 billion, up by 27% on 2021. A net result that places the group above fast-fashion competitors.

The supermarket chain has announced that it is investing US$100 million in its e-commerce logistics to build six new order preparation centres by 2026. With this investment, Target is capitalising...

In mid-February 2023, Meta (turnover of US$117 billion in 2022 down by 1%) indicated the end of the possibility to tag products (and thus make them “shoppable”) in live...

On February 21, The Home Depot released annual results. Despite the weak property market in the USA, the company managed to retain margin. However, the current fiscal year looks risky and the...

In 2022, Lego‘s turnover slowed down. From 27% growth a year ago, it grew by 17% in 2022 to €8.7 billion (constant rates) via 904 stores. Western Europe and America were particularly...

Following a meteoric growth in 2021 (turnover of €10.35 billion up by 29.7%), Zalando‘s sales reached €10.34 billion in 2022, slightly down by -0.1%. While the number of...

With a low price positioning, Walmart has managed to accelerate growth in 2022. This policy has nevertheless cost profitability. Note: the group has generated US$2.7 billion in advertising...