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“We believe that base rents in malls should be calculated as a percentage of sales”,

16 June 2017

Iran acts to sustain local manufacturing

Since March 2017, the Supreme Leader of Iran has implemented a new custom law in the textile industry.

16 June 2017

Coach consolidates via external growth

In the U.S., Coach signed a US$2.4 billion deal to purchase Kate Spade,

16 June 2017

Chilean retailer Falabella in fair growth in Q1 2017

The Latin American giant Falabella posted sales

16 June 2017

Los Angeles. Westfield will open Amazon Books

In May 2017, Amazon received the approval to open a 485-sq.m bookstore within Westfield Century City

16 June 2017

H&M makes inroads in Colombia

In May 2017, H&M opened its 1st store in Colombia as a fully-owned unit.

16 June 2017

Chilean retailer Falabella in fair growth in Q1 2017

The Latin American giant Falabella posted sales up by 3.8% to US$3.2 billion

16 June 2017

Brazil. Convenience & online become top priorities

In Brazil, building convenient-stores and digital market places is the priority of Lojas Americanas discount retailer and the online retailer B2W, which runs Americanas.com and Submarino.com.

16 June 2017

Carrefour changes C.E.O

Carrefour confirmed Alexandre Bombard, Former C.E.O. of Fnac-Darty Group, as successor to Georges Plassat.

16 June 2017

How to share online revenue with franchisees

The Sagam-owned childrens’ specialty retailer “Autour de Bébé”

16 June 2017

Marks & Spencer sales uncertain whilst turnaround strategy bites

In the fiscal year to April 2017, M&S posted sales up by 2.2%, mainly driven by the food division (+4.2%) whereas the clothing and home division decreased by 2.8% (final annual results).

16 June 2017

Galeries Lafayette launches more outlets

In late June 2017, the Roppenheim outlet centre near the German border and owned by Neinver,

16 June 2017

SUITSUPPLY RE-INVENTS THE “TAILOR-MADE”

SuitSupply, the Dutch men’s wear retailer operating stores in 24 countries (U.S.A., Canada, China, Singapore, the U.A.E. plus 15 European countries)

16 June 2017

Mall traffic. European countries still unequal

ShopperTrack (part of Tyco Group), has edited its Global Shopper Trend Report in Q1 2017.

16 June 2017

Birchbox capitalizes on payment data with Adyen

Every month, Birchox cosmetics retailer finds the best novelties and sends them in the form of sample boxes to one million subscribers in 6 countries (U.S.A., U.K., Ireland, Spain, Belgium...

16 June 2017

Beaumanoir focuses on conversational commerce

According to Briac Ledur, Data and CRM Director and CRM of Beaumanoir fashion group

16 June 2017

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