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Following Setif and Oran, the menswear brand Eden Park (sales of €60 million in 2018, up by 3% year-on-year) opened on October 19, 2019, a 3rd Algerian store, near the newly opened Decathlon...

14 November 2019

Saudi Arabia bets on retail and tourism

Saudi Arabian unemployment passed 12% in late June 2019. This represents over a million people seeking work, including 30% of these aged between 25 and 29. In the current context of economic...

14 November 2019

Jumia on a tightrope

According to Standard & Poor’s, African e-commerce leader Jumia Technologies recorded a share price fall of 29% in September 2019. This follows, among other pressures, a Bloomberg...

14 November 2019

Costco shows it can win customers with rising sales

In the quarter to September 1st, 2019, the U.S. warehouse retailer reported revenue of US$47.5 billion, a combination of net sales and membership fees. Costco’s comparable sales (those from...

14 November 2019

Amazon signs property leases

Eager to open a chain of grocery stores in the U.S., Amazon signed leases for more than 12 stores in Los Angeles. Amazon is buying spaces between 1,800 and 3,700 sq.m. within strip centres and...

14 November 2019

U.S. An anti-Amazon alliance in pet-food

There may be an alternative path for retailers to escape the Amazon steamroller. In the U.S.A, the Group created by Jeff Bezos controlled 38% of total online sales in 2019 (source: eMarketer, data...

14 November 2019

Carrefour-Brazil invests with digital wallets and reduces store management

In Brazil, Carrefour (453 stores, sales of €10.2 billion in the 9 months to September 2019 as rise by 6% like-for-like) invested in 49% of Ewally, a company in Sao Paulo that specialises in...

14 November 2019

Galeries Lafayette affirms ambitions in Shanghai

In late October 2019, the 2nd Galeries Lafayette store opened in Shanghai. Covering 25,000 sq.m GLA, it is located in the Lujiazui business district in Pudong, within the L + Mall. According to...

14 November 2019

Kingfisher adds to the top team

Thierry Garnier, who replaced Veronique Laury as C.E.O. of Kingfisher in late September 2019, created a new role for John Wartig, a seasoned financial expert who joined Kingfisher as interim...

14 November 2019

Circular economy and home appliances. Boulanger shows the way

The circular economy, increasingly valued in fashion, is spreading in all retail sectors and especially home appliances. Like its American counterpart Home Depot (encouraging the recycling of...

14 November 2019

The furniture sector is looking for new balance

As the world’s biggest furniture retailer Ikea continues to show audacious growth, mid-size rivals struggle in Europe. Conforama is currently being restructured (40 store closures), a...

14 November 2019

Central Retail from Thailand and Signa advance pawns in Austria

The KaDeWe brand will open a 4th department store in Vienna, Austria. This is due for the autumn of 2023 in the Mariahilfer Strasse over a sales area of 58,000 sq.m. The building is owned by the...

14 November 2019

Hudson’s Bay drops the curtain in the Netherlands

For the Hudson’s Bay Company, selling outside Canada was a calculated risk. The adventure lasted two years. The chain announced a closure of all Dutch department stores and e-commerce...

14 November 2019

The Rocher Group lights up sales in Japan and Africa

According to Bris Rocher, C.E.O. and grandson of the founder of the beauty retailer Rocher Group, “You need three things to become a company with a purpose. Firstly, you need an authentic...

14 November 2019

Germany. Decathlon resells 2nd hand goods

In Germany, the sporting goods retailer Decathlon has set up an ingenious system dedicated to sale of 2nd hand goods. “In 2017, we expanded our returns policy in Germany and our store...

14 November 2019

Spanish “malls” focus on catering and leisure

In Seville, the Lagoh shopping Centre (owner Grupo Lar, 123,500 sq.m GLA of retail space, 135 shops including Zara, Five Guys, Lego and Primark) opened in late September. There are now 564...

14 November 2019

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On the occasion of an IPO, Shein revealed a carbon footprint of 25.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, up by 20% compared to a reference year. For an equivalent sales level, the fast...

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With €2.2 billion in cloud revenue and growth 3 times faster than the rest of the business, Schwarz Group continues a technological shift. Between investments in its own data centres, buyouts in...

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