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…The sale of the Dubai-based Emaar Properties e-commerce fashion business, started in October 2021 is almost complete. The company held a meeting on Thursday 18 August 2022, to arbitrate...

19 August 2022

Ingka Centres starts construction of a first Indian mall

…Ingka Centres, a subsidiary of the Ingka Group (turnover of €37.4 billion in the fiscal year to August 2021 up by 6% year-on-year) started construction of the Gurugram mixed-use...

19 August 2022

Amazon invests US$1.7 billion in Roomba robot hoovers

…Involved in connected home equipment products, Amazon announced on August 5, 2022, an agreement to buy iRobot Corp, a company that makes, among other things, the Roomba robot hoover, for...

17 August 2022

Greenwashing. Ongoing investigation of Asos, Boohoo and Asda

…On 29 July, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced an investigation into ASOS, Boohoo and Asda to check if the green terms they use are legitimate. Their so-called...

17 August 2022

H&M develops machine learning with Google cloud

…To strengthen its omnichannel strategy, the H&M group expanded a partnership with Google on June 30. The deal uses the Google Cloud offering to develop a new data platform based on AI...

16 August 2022

Live Shopping. TikTok abandons the “Shop” version for Europe and the U.S.A.

…After launching TikTok “Shop” in Indonesia in 2021, ByteDance (the app’s parent company) cancelled plans to offer the new social commerce function for Europe and the...

1 August 2022

Taiwan. Carrefour leaves Asia for good

…For a year, Carrefour has been looking for a buyer for the Taiwanese business (sales excluding V.A.T. in 2021 was €2.5 billion via 340 stores, including 68 hypermarkets and 129...

22 July 2022

Amazon launches Store Analytics, a service for analysing in-store promotions performance

…On 29 June 2022, Amazon (turnover of US$469.82 billion in 2021, up by 22% vs 2020) launched a new “Store Analytics” service. This solution optimises data provided by Just Walk...

13 July 2022

Lush invests €8.8 million in European stores despite declining sales

…On 5 July, Lush unveiled the new design of a store in the Greenhithe shopping centre (North West Kent, England), which doubled sales area to 145 sq.m. At the same time, the group announced...

13 July 2022

Morrisons opens a supermarket that consumes 43% less CO2

…At a time when energy costs are soaring, Morrisons opened a first “environmentally friendly” store in Little Clacton (Essex, England) on 6 July. The store emits 43% less...

13 July 2022

India : Reliance signs a franchising deal with Gap

Gap Inc (sales of US$16.7 billion in 2021, +2% from 2019) is coming back to India via a new franchising agreement with Reliance Retail. Headquartered in Mumbai, Reliance is India’s largest...

8 July 2022

H&M and Inditex reduce their exposure in China

…The Swedish retailer H&M (turnover of US$5.36 billion in Q2 2022, up by 12% in local currency) has discreetly closed its largest store in Mainland China on 24 June 2022.

8 July 2022

Mexico’s largest convenience retailer to acquire Swiss network Valora

…By October 2022, the Mexican retailer Femsa (turnover of US$27 billion in 2021) wants to take over Swiss retailer Valora (2,700 automatic kiosks and stores) in a US$1.15 billion deal.

7 July 2022

Cloud computing: Walmart strengthens its independence

…On 23 June, Walmart unveiled Triplet Model, a hybrid cloud computing solution based on third-party servers hosted by Microsoft and Google, but also on its own servers installed for the...

7 July 2022

Sustainability: Shein reviled on TikTok and Youtube

…Shein is facing increasing criticism from a younger generation of sustainable consumers. In the U.S.A., Ava Grand, a young fashion design graduate from Marist College, started to...

7 July 2022

Ikea advances in India and takes a step back in Russia

;;;In India, Ingka Group (whose fiscal year will close in August 2022) is pursuing an omnichannel expansion strategy. After opening a 42,500 sq.m store in Bangalore (Karnataka state) in May 2022...

7 July 2022

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Signing of three high-end clients, launch of a maintenance passport, imminent Seed funding round and cloud migration project in China… At a 1-to-1 conference in Monaco, the Founder of Prolong...

12 March 2026

Regulatory: With 200,000 Digital Product Passports issued, Darty scales up

While the European Commission is set to vote on delegated acts to specify requirements for home appliances, Darty is accelerating a Digital Product Passport (DPP) push by integrating new products...

11 March 2026

Electronic labels: Hanshow accelerates breakthrough and signs with a leading British retailer

While the leader in electronic labels, Vusion exceeded €1.47 billion in revenue in 2025, rival Hanshow is stepping up a global offensive, winning a strategic account in the U.K. and a new POC for...

27 February 2026

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Italy seizes €27.4 million from CEVA Logistics for fraud and undeclared labour

On March 3, 2026, Italian tax authorities announced the seizure of €27.4 million from two Italian subsidiaries of French supply chain specialist CEVA Logistics, itself a subsidiary of the...

5 March 2026

Conflicts in the Middle East: what impact on the supply chain and European retail?

With US and Israeli strikes on Iran triggering a major crisis on February 28, 2026, retailers already have to face the closure of strategic trade routes, rising freight costs and import...

5 March 2026

Following a complaint from the FTC, Walmart agrees to pay US$100 million to Spark delivery drivers

On February 26, 2026, Walmart (2025 revenue: US$713.2 billion, up by 5.1% at constant rates) agreed to pay US$100 million in response to allegations of misleading compensation to delivery drivers...

4 March 2026

Social media & age verification: Tech breaks the glass ceiling of precision

As an array of international governments restrict social networks access for teenagers under 15 or 16, new facial recognition technologies from Yoti, Persona and k-ID are making progress in...

13 March 2026

Faced with sluggish demand, The Home Depot and Lowe’s cut 1,400 jobs and reaffirm a B2B focus

In the United States, with the home improvement and D.I.Y. market under pressure, retail leaders are reorganising. Home Depot and Lowe's, respectively No. 1 and No. 2 in the market, announced...

25 February 2026

Search AI : in the retail sector, 25% of AI queries are transactional

For mind Retail, online SEO specialist Ahrefs analysed retail queries on AI search engines. The goal was to measure the proportion of transactional prompts compared to informational ones. The...

2 March 2026