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Armani (2021 turnover of €2 billion, up by 26% vs 2020) with an interior design division, Armani / Casa, has partnered with property developer Arada to create a luxury residential complex in...

4 May 2023

How Etam wants to generate additional revenue from in-store returns

The underwear retailer Etam (804 stores in 45 countries in late 2022, including 593 fully-owned), whose 90% of sales are generated by stores and 10% online, added a “return management”...

28 April 2023

For 30% of retailers, staff spend too much time managing returns

According to a survey of 500 fashion retailers in the U.S.A. and the U.K. by the R.F.I.D. specialist SML Group, a third of retailers say they spend too much time processing returns manually. This...

27 April 2023

Sephora partners with Pact Collective to collect more empty packaging

In the U.S.A. and Canada, Sephora (LVMH, 17% organic growth in Q1 2023, as in 2022) signed a partnership with Pact Collective. This project, called Beauty (Re)Purposed, aims at collecting empty...

27 April 2023

[Confidential] In 2022, King Jouet recorded only €150,000 in retail media revenue

Having initiating retail media in 2020 with Criteo, King Jouet (330 stores in France, Switzerland and Benelux, steady turnover of €412 million in 2022) the firm shared results...

21 April 2023

Furniture : Conforama and But launch a joint advertising agency

On Monday April 3rd, the household equipment retailers But and Conforama (Mobilux) announced a joint retail media agency called Retailium Media. They will offer advertisers a...

14 April 2023

Apple makes a deeper foray into India with two first stores

While Apple (2022 revenue of US$394.3 billion, up by 8% vs 2021) took a first step into the Indian market in 2020 with an e-commerce site, the business is now due to open a physical branded...

12 April 2023

U.S. shopping centres diversify offers to attract customers

Following the lead from Unibail Rodamco Westfield, which made residential projects a priority for 2023, the American property owner Macerich is diversifying low-traffic sales areas to increase...

12 April 2023

Amazon and Walmart invest in custom packaging technology

On 20th March, Packsize launched a machine called “Ultra5” exclusively for Walmart, which is able to detect dimensions of any item, cutting and folding cardboard packaging so that it...

7 April 2023

Beauty. The Indian unicorn Nykaa continues to grow like crazy

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...

7 April 2023

Beauty : L’Oréal adds Aesop to its portfolio of luxury brands

In search of cash, Brazilian beauty retailer Natura & Co had been looking to sell a gold nugget called Aesop since February. L’Oréal (2022 sales of €38.3...

6 April 2023

Inflation : The C.E.O. of Système U points to the behavior of national brands

On 30th March, in an interview with BFMTV, Dominique Schelcher, C.E.O. of the French grocery retailer Système U, criticised the role of major brands in consumer price inflation: “A...

4 April 2023

U.S.A. New C.E.O. for Starbucks in a wave of union pressure

Starbucks (turnover of US$32.23 billion, up 10.9%, net margin of 10.2% of sales) announced that Laxman Narasimhan (aged 55) will take over as the new C.E.O. on 20th March. He moves from C.E.O. of...

29 March 2023

Belgium. Delhaize to franchise integrated supermarkets due to declining profitability

A call for strike action in the entire Belgian retail sector has been made for 17 April. It follows the announcement on 7 March of the project of Ahold Delhaize (turnover 2022 of €87 billion...

29 March 2023

Carrefour Brazil. How e-commerce doubled in Q4 2022 with VTEX

Last June, Carrefour’s Brazilian subsidiary launched an omnichannel integration project with VTEX. “The challenge was to serve web orders faster, offering more convenience and agility...

29 March 2023

Leroy Merlin wants to give up control in Russia

On 24 March, Adeo announced an intention to “cede control” of 113 Russian Leroy Merlin stores. However, the holding company wants to “keep its hand” in the poker game. The...

28 March 2023

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According to our sources, the young start-up Hymalaia is continuing development in retail with 4 new retailers currently in POC and an imminent fundraising. We examine the details.

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Refurbished smartphones: why Largo relies on Speeral automation

The start-up founded by the duo behind Teester and Skeepers is accelerating automation of second-hand product flows. The strategy is to use AI to direct products to high-traffic marketplaces such...

9 December 2025

Leroy Merlin and Aroma‑Zone launch in‑store analytics pilots with XXII

French retail tech XXII, which aims to become the Google Analytics and Contentsquare of physical stores, has already signed with 15 retailers and shopping centres, mind Retail learned. A year...

5 December 2025

Already in POC, Dialog’s conversational agent shows up in the search bar

Buoyed by a €3.8 million seed round closed in mid‑November 2025, French start‑up Dialog, specialised in AI‑based conversational e‑commerce, is accelerating. Initially placed on product pages, this...

4 December 2025

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Carmila join forces with Unlimitail and JCDecaux to equip 252 malls

On December 9, Carrefour and Carmila signed a partnership with Unlimitail and JCDecaux to create a retail media network combining indoor DOOH and outdoor OOH across their sites in France and...

12 December 2025

With Grand Frais, Apollo makes a first move into European grocery retail

Through an agreement to acquire 70% of the operator of Grand Frais, the US investment fund Apollo aims to double stores and evolve a model that has so far been entirely focused on physical retail...

19 December 2025

Italian Golden Goose set for Chinese ownership

A year after the French children’s clothing brand Bonpoint was acquired by Chinese group Youngor, Italian luxury brand Golden Goose is next. British fund Permira (already owner of Hugo...

9 December 2025

Pierre Brousseau (FDJ United Ventures): “For 2026, we are positioning ourselves in a more rational and offensive again VC market”

What is the total amount of assets under management at FDJ United Ventures?FDJ United Ventures was launched in 2015. We invest in European start-ups supported by La Française des Jeux (FDJ...

12 December 2025