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To reinvent yourself professionally, investing in a franchise can be a reassuring and clever choice. It's time to inquire to participate in the next edition of Franchise Expo Paris, the major...

17 February 2022

Fitness Park & Yoobic. “Training savings amount to hundreds of thousands Euros”

How to lead digital change within a staff, whilst opening 60 points of sale per year, in branches and franchises? This is the case for Fitness Park sports clubs, which have expanded from 50 to 250...

17 February 2022

Fashion. Gen Z stuck between ethics and overconsumption

The "Greta Thunberg generation" demands more inclusion and commitment from retailers. However, these customers remain the backbone of fast-fashion, one of the world's most polluting industries...

16 February 2022

The French e-retail media market grew by 42% in 2021

The growth of the French digital advertising market in 2021, around 24%, is notably driven by retail media, a lever boosted by the increase in online purchases and which is more effective since...

16 February 2022

Alma brings Tencent into its capital to accelerate in Europe

The French fractional and deferred payment platform brings in Tencent, GR Capital and Roosh Ventures as shareholders. It plans to open in at least 5 new European countries in 2022.

15 February 2022

Alltricks “Stores should not take anything away from the Web experience”

With 160,000 references online and stores covering 300 sq.m on average, the pure-player Alltricks reported a GMV up by 30% in 2021. Its current challenge is to make customers discover the range...

4 February 2022

Amazon Style : Concept of the Month

After setting the "Just Walk Out" technology as a standard for cashier-free grocery stores, Amazon intends to disrupt fashion retail with Amazon Style. This technology-infused store concept is...

2 February 2022

NRF: Observations from the Retail Big Show 2022

Fabrice Haiat, C.E.O. of Yoobic, and Guillaume Rio, Director of Technology Trends at Echangeur BNP Paribas PF, covered the NRF in New York. Where the 2022 show was disrupted by Covid-19, they...

1 February 2022

Cyber-attacks: time to mobilise defences!

Stores deprived of their VSEs, merchant sites rendered inoperable by malicious software. How to fight against cyber hackers who are taking full advantage of the boom in e-commerce? How to...

28 January 2022

Wholesale. Metro AG explores the future of its Indian subsidiary

In India, the German Metro AG is weakened by the brazen disruption of the pure-players JioMart (Reliance Retail) and Udaan.

27 January 2022

Good Food Holdings. “We are in the early stages of selecting dark stores”

In the U.S.A., supermarket chain Good Food Holdings operates 51 stores. According to C.E.O. Neil Stern, inflation, staff shortage and higher wages encourage retailers to automate operations.

26 January 2022

“Spain is now the 4th European country in terms of e-commerce sales”

By Magda Espuga, co-founder of Kiss Retail. Based in Barcelona, this strategy consulting firm specialises in the transformation and optimisation of retail concepts. Kiss Retail includes customers...

19 January 2022

How will people pay in 2022?

Hervé Denis, Head of Flow, Offer, Trade, Innovation & Data Payments Department at Crédit Mutuel Arkéa.

13 January 2022

“Independent retailers are not the best experts in use of data”

By Philippe Sence, President of the digital transformation commission at IREF, Federation of European Franchise and Partnership Networks. IREF represents all forms of independent collaborative...

13 January 2022

Patrick Raffort, FG2A : “There is a true complementarity between insurance and retail”

Patrick Raffort, President of the FG2A* is also Head of Insurance at Orange. He explains how insurance products have become a new frontier for many retail companies.

13 January 2022

“77% of retailers want to increase the drive-to-store portion of their advertising investment”

By Sandrine Prefaut, Managing Director of S4M in France. Operating in 10 countries (USA, Canada, France, Italy, UK, Switzerland, Benelux, Asia-Pacific region…), S4M is an international “drive to...

13 January 2022

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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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Profound raises US$96 million in Series C funding, becoming a first GEO unicorn

Founded in 2024 in New York by James Cadwallader, GEO startup Profound raised US$96 million on February 24, 2026, in a Series C round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, including Sequoia Capital...

25 February 2026

Klépierre, URW, Carmila: in 2025, retail media and services accounted for nearly 10% of net rental income

Published on February 12 and 19, annual financial results of the three major European property companies show that Klépierre, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, and Carmila are no longer singing from the...

24 February 2026