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With 720 million daily active users and 4.5 billion products in the catalogue, Criteo wants to integrate with agentic commerce. Betting on proprietary data, the adtech company is testing...

2 December 2025

Retail media: MediaMarktSaturn launches offsite with Unlimitail in five countries

MediamarktSaturn, Europe's largest home electrical retailer is joining forces with Unlimitail to monetise data offsite. In Q2, marketplace GMV jumped 90% thanks to strong demand and international...

30 September 2025

After a poor second quarter, Target is reshuffling the deck: new C.E.O., new priorities to get back on track

The U.S. grocery retailer Target is embarking on a strategic shift after a difficult first semester. With 19.6% of online sales and three-quarters from non-food products, the US's third-largest...

27 August 2025

Carrefour and Cooperative U form European buying alliance and eye retail media deal

Carrefour and Cooperative U officially announced on July 7 the launch of Concordis, a joint European purchasing alliance. Based in Brussels, the structure will begin operating for the 2026 trade...

8 July 2025

Hugues Chanoine, Hygie31: “In a year, our retail media revenue jumped 25% to €1 million”

Expansion of a physical network, e-commerce upgrades, developing retail media, overhaul of digital tools... With little media exposure, the Hygie31 group—which operates 1,519 pharmacies and 5...

27 June 2025

[mind Retail Day] Data strategy and advertising revenue: Fitness Park’s new trajectory

During the mind Retail Day, the Fitness Park gym chain (350 gyms in Europe) took stock of their advertising monetization strategy. Here are the key figures.

4 June 2025

[mind Retail Day] How Mousquetaires, Marionnaud and URW maximise in-store retail media

While in France, retail media revenue grew by 14% to €1.22 billion in 2024 (representing 11% of total digital advertising), the increasingly omnichannel approach of both advertising agencies...

26 May 2025

Valiuz signs with Auchan Spain and launches Valiuz Iberia

On May 13, Valiuz, the retail media agency for Mulliez brands, which will soon be integrated with Infinity Advertising, announced a partnership with Alcampo, the group’s Spanish grocery...

23 May 2025

Paolo de Cesare takes over as Chairman of Grandi Stazioni

Paolo de Cesare was appointed Non-Executive Chairman of Grandi Stazioni at the end of April 2025. Former Chairman and C.E.O. of Printemps Group (2007–2020) and then C.E.O. of luxury...

15 May 2025

Frasers launches retail media in fashion and department stores

On May 13, British company Frasers (2023 turnover: €6.5 billion, down 0.9% year-on-year) launched a retail media network ‘Elevate’ in partnership with ad server Zitcha. In the...

14 May 2025

Can financial services’ offensive in the advertising arena hit the mark?

In 2024, banking and payment companies have agreed to invest in the retail media market. Like e-retailers, they are looking to leverage their 1P data, coveted for targeting capabilities in...

9 May 2025

PayPal launches PayPal Ads in the U.K.

PayPal will soon be offering personalised adverts to British customers, based on their spending on the platform. The payment giant is gradually launching PayPal Ads in the U.K., showing first...

10 April 2025

Simon Property steps up in offsite retail media

Simon Property Group, the world’s leading commercial property company (2024 revenue: US$5.96 billion, up by 5.4%, via 229 malls covering 180 million sq.m and 2 billion visitors per year)...

2 April 2025

Rodrigo Clare (Altarea): “We have entered into exclusive negotiations to manage stores in 83 Milan metro stations”

After winning, with RATP Travel Retail, the tender for the stations in the greater Paris area, the property company Altarea is also preparing to expand in Italy, mind Retail learned. We review the...

28 March 2025

After Woolworths, Hanshow is going to test its smart cart at 2 French retailers

The ESL supplier Hanshow is speeding up the marketing of its digital smart cart. Deployed in 10 Woolworths supermarkets in Australia, it will be tested at 2 French retailers in 2025.

26 March 2025

In 2024, E.Leclerc and Lidl were the 2 biggest French advertisers

On March 6, 2025, Kantar Media presented the Top 100 Advertisers 2024, revealing that they now account for 46% of investments in the multi-media advertising market (press, radio, TV, OOH, cinema...

13 March 2025

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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

E‑commerce: How Hive customises free‑delivery thresholds using customer data

With 500 e‑merchant clients, including Embryolisse, Hindbag, Airup, Hygée or Jacks Beauty Line, German logistics provider Hive is capitalising on data to raise e‑commerce conversion via a finely...

2 December 2025

Retail media: Marionnaud bets on print with Figaro to boost drive-to-store

According to our sources, Marionnaud’s beauty retailer will expand an advertising unit into 3 new countries in 2026 and is launching another retail media lever in the French key market. The goal...

26 November 2025

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Carrefour: with 4% of the shares Rodolphe Saadé strengthens governance after the Diniz exit

A page is turning at Carrefour. On November 12, 2025 the Brazilian Diniz family (a shareholder since 2014 through its holding Peninsula) sold the 8% stake. At the same time Rodolphe...

13 November 2025

Carmila accelerates asset sales in Spain and exceeds 2025 targets

On November 17, 2025, the retail property company created by Carrefour, Carmila, announced the sale of 4 non-strategic assets in Spain for €37.3 million, including taxes. These medium-sized...

20 November 2025