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Luxembourg-based investment fund CVC Capital Partners Plc plans to float Zabka, Poland’s leading convenience store retailer, on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in September 2024. With 10,000...

4 July 2024

U.S. Legends manages the Champs-Élysées Paris 2024 megastore

On June 27, the Champs Elysée Olympic Games megastore, managed by the U.S. company Legends, was opened on Place Clémenceau. At the bottom of the avenue, this covers 1,000 sq.m of...

3 July 2024

Naf Naf taken over by Turkey’s Migiboy for €1.5 million

On June 18, the Parisian Commercial Court of Bobigny granted Naf Naf (2022 sales of €141 million, debts of €40 million in 2023) to Migiboy Tekstil (2023 sales of €55.9 million down...

27 June 2024

Luxury brand Polène makes inroads in South Korea with a flagship

Founded in 2016, French luxury leather goods brand Polène (5 stores, with 3 in Paris, 1 in Tokyo and 1 in New York) is continuing to expand. On June 15, 2024, the retailer opened a flagship...

26 June 2024

In the U.S.A., Japanese discounter Daiso plans to increase store count 10-fold by 2030

In the United States, while Family Dollar has closed 600 stores since the start of the year, Japanese discounter Daiso (a subsidiary of Korean investor AsungHMP, which has an 84.2% stake since...

26 June 2024

Chalhoub launches 2-hour delivery in Riyadh with Level Shoes

In June 2024, a year after launching a two-hour home delivery service in Dubai, Chalhoub’s Level Shoes (selling 250 shoe brands and two flagships in Dubai Mall and Riyadh Park Mall) decided...

25 June 2024

Watsons invests US$250 million to upgrade in-store beauty experience

On June 6, 2024, Hong Kong-based Watsons (A.S Watson Group, turnover of US$23 billion in 2023) unveiled a US$250 million investment programme for its stores. This includes 1,200 new stores and...

25 June 2024

Yoox-Net-A-Porter bids farewell to China under pressure from competitors

On June 14, Switzerland’s Richemont (2023 sales of €20.62 billion, up by 3.3%), owner of Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, etc., announced the closure of the Yoox Net A Porter (YNAP)...

20 June 2024

E.Leclerc to activate e-retail media in 300 petrol stations

While revenue of e-retail media grew by 24 % last year in France to €1.11 billion and continues to gain share in the advertising market (12% after 9% in 2023), E.Leclerc is accelerating...

17 June 2024

Leroy Merlin halves Board and starts a vast redundancy plan

Leroy Merlin (GMV 2023 of €9.93 billion in France up by 1.3% year-on-year) announced the loss of about 500 jobs in France, representing around 1.8% of the group’s workforce. The timing...

12 June 2024

Fast fashion giant Shein tries circularity

Following a launch in the U.S.A. in 2022, the second-hand clothing resale platform Shein Exchange, was launched in France on June 3. Available from the mobile app, it offers only clothing...

11 June 2024

Casino subsidiary suspends stablecoin issuance

“As part of the entry into force of the European MiCA regulation (June 30, editor note) and in accordance with its compliance commitment, Lugh, issuer of the stablecoin euro, announces the...

7 June 2024

Ikea launches a recruitment campaign for a new store on Roblox

On June 24, Ikea launched a first metaverse store in the UK. Recruited between June 14 and 18, the 10 store advisors on Roblox (“The Co-Worker Game”, developed by Swedish gaming...

6 June 2024

Benetton Co-Founder to step down as Chairman amid allegations of fraud

On May 25, in Italy, Luciano Benetton, Co-Founder of the eponymous Italian fashion retailer (sales of €1.09 billion in 2023 up by 8.5%, after a 19%-uplift in 2022), announced his intention to...

6 June 2024

OneStock raises US$72 million to boost connectivity

On May 21, 2024, US fund Summit Partners (RELEX, Akeneo, Klaviyo, Optimove, Later and Mi9 Retail) announced a US$72 million investment in French OMS provider OneStock (100 clients including Yves...

31 May 2024

Retail media: PayPal creates an advertising division headed by an ex-Uber

PayPal (427 million active accounts in Q1 2024, for 6.5 billion transactions) is to launch an advertising sales platform, PayPal Ads. Based on users’ transactional and behavioural data...

31 May 2024

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Operating in 18 countries and managing brands such as Ikea, Zara and Marks & Spencer, Emirati group Al-Futtaim (2025 revenue: US$9.7 billion, up by 6%) has a unique vantage point from which to...

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