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In 2017, the Fashion House outlet centre in Bucharest posted sales up by 10% year-on-year, growth of more than three times that of 2016. Conversion rate, i.e. visitors who spent money in the mall...

13 April 2018

Sales of Made.com up by 40% in 2017

Following a 50% growth in 2016, Made posted sales of US$178 million in 2017. It has been profitable in the U.K., France, the Netherlands and Belgium/Luxembourg, but not in Germany, causing an...

13 April 2018

O’Bag, The Concept of The Month

The Italian accessory retailer O’Bag, created in 2009, has the same high profile for the accessory sector as does Pandora for jewellery. It sells middle range accessories characterised by...

13 April 2018

Aldi and Dia adopt opposite strategies in China

In April 2018, the discount Spanish retailer Dia announced a withdrawal from China. It signed a deal with the home electrical retailer Suning (whose majority shareholder is Alibaba), which aims to...

13 April 2018

Reopening of competition for the running of the retail business at the Eiffel Tower

The Société d’Exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE) will soon be lauching a competitive tender to manage and operate shops at the Eiffel Tower (available on the B.O.A.M.P...

13 April 2018

Is technology expected to be like invisible air conditioning ?

According to Mrs. Susanna Chin, Chief Representative of the Hong Kong giant Li&Fung for the East-China region, digital technology should be invisible in-store. “Technology is like...

13 April 2018

Abu Dhabi investors arrive in Silicon Valley

Keen to continue reducing the historical reliance on oil revenue and diverting assets into non-hydrocarbon sectors, an investor from the United Arab Emirates invested a large minority share in the...

13 April 2018

Fashion. When retailers say “farewell” to seasons

As the fashion sector is increasingly driven by consumer demands, an array of international retailers has abandoned the historical “seasonal” calendar, removing the previously...

13 April 2018

The “cost-killer” Action

Which retailer can boast 25 years of consecutive growth with 1,095 profitable stores? This is Action, whose sales jumped by 28% to €3.4 billion in 2017 according to preliminary results. This...

13 April 2018

Flying Tiger. Quirky style and low prices

Nicknamed the “daughter of Ikea and dollar stores”, the Danish retailer Flying Tiger Copenhagen is establishing a market position based on very low prices. Its name comes from the word...

13 April 2018

Hema struggles to convince investors

Unlike Action, the Dutch retailer Hema (722 stores in October 2017) operates with a more challenging cash-rich model, focused on its private label and urban locations. Despite an expansion move...

13 April 2018

Forever 21 struggles in India

The Aditya Birla Fashion & Retail Group (ABFR), holding the exclusive franchising rights of U.S.A. retailer “Forever 21” for two years, is reducing the scale of operations...

20 March 2018

India’s main cities sees strong retail demand

According to JLL, retailers’ demand for locations within Indian malls should increase by 81% in 2018, driven by strong economic fundamentals and the higher purchasing power of young people...

20 March 2018

Asia drives Hermès global sales

According to preliminary results, the luxury retailer Hermès posted revenue of €5.5 billion in 2017 (+9%) at constant exchange rates, pushed by a strong business boost from Asia. Asia...

20 March 2018

Asian giants will not purchase the British Arcadia Group

This was a formal denial prompted by an article published in the Sunday Times. In February 2018, the Chinese fashion conglomerate Shandong Ruyi (owner of high-end fashion brands such as Bally...

20 March 2018

Iron hand at Nordstrom

The Board of Nordstrom department stores rejected the US$8 billion buyout offer from the founding family partnered with Leonard Green & Partners. The takeover offer was estimated as too low...

20 March 2018

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Founded in 2024 in New York by James Cadwallader, GEO startup Profound raised US$96 million on February 24, 2026, in a Series C round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, including Sequoia Capital...

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Agentic commerce : After Stripe, Mirakl partners with JPMorgan Payments

On March 10, 2026, Mirakl and JPMorgan Payments (JPMP) unveiled a partnership to deploy agentic commerce by combining the Mirakl Nexus agentic orchestration platform with the U.S. bank’s...

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