A slow-paced, casual approach to life and relatively high disposable income mean that local consumers are able to allocate a greater share of their spending to categories other than basic necessities. Store-based retailers including convenience ...

Delhi is a shopping hub with an abundance of retail formats, including stand-alone stores, swanky malls, shopping centres, high streets and traditional old markets. The city’s shopping activity is scattered across hotspots including Connaught Place, ...

French modern grocery giant Carrefour SA is striving to shift its core business away from hypermarkets as well as reduce dependency on its sluggish domestic market. There has seen a spate of acquisitions, as well as franchising agreements that have ...

Seven & I Holdings is a Japan-based multi-channel retailer best known for its leading 7-Eleven convenience stores brand. Delivering record-high revenues in FY2016, the group’s ranking increased slightly due to the end of the depreciation of the yen ...

The global apparel and footwear retailing landscape has undergone a multitude of changes in recent years, accounting for the highest sales in internet retailing in 2016. The apparel and footwear industry exemplifies the impact of e-commerce growth, ...

Loyalty programs are a key tool for retailers to drive sales amongst their core customers. Successful programs have five key attributes: personalisation, convenience, ease of use, and non-transactional engagements/benefits, and are encouraging ...

When two global heavyweights merged in 2016, they created the seventh largest modern grocery retailer in the world. Their distinct strengths and geographical coverage makes for compelling synergies which they have already started to leverage. ...

This briefing highlights the newest concepts in fashion retailing around the world. As hyperconnected consumers disregard the conventions of traditional retail, fashion players are increasingly looking to experiential shopping and personalisation to ...

As the country's leading economic and financial centre, consumers in Shanghai enjoy comparatively higher disposable income levels. The higher disposable incomes in the city allow its consumers to spend more on non-basic products. The attractiveness ...

This global briefing presents five strategic considerations for assessing and expanding into emerging and developing countries. It identifies market characteristics and indicators specific to emerging and developing countries that retailers and ...

Digital has redefined delivery. The confluence of macroeconomic, demographic and lifestyle trends that are underpinning evolving consumer expectations alongside the arrival of new technologies has led to commerce players reimagining the last mile. ...

Low duties, generally free borders, except on one side, decline in inflation, higher disposable incomes and other factors associated with urbanisation resulted in further growth in retailing in Pakistan. Retailing is considered to have benefitted ...

Deeply affected by the unique local climate, resources as well as the customs of ethnic minorities, retailing in Kunming reflects local culture and shopping habits. In addition, as a tourist attraction, the large numbers of tourists from other ...

South Africa continued to face numerous economic and socioeconomic challenges during 2016. Factors such as exchange rate volatility, the declining availability of credit and inflationary pressures negatively affected the finances of many households. ...

Companies have been collecting petabytes of data, but to date struggle to make sense of it all. Artificial intelligence is enabling brands to better synthesise and incorporate those learnings into efforts to create a more personalised consumer ...

The development of the smart connected home will face many hurdles, not least the incredible scale and complexity involved in getting all its constituent parts to operate in unison. That said, the rewards for injecting “soul” into what are still ...

Aldi, which leads the discounters channel globally, saw slight growth partially due to the development of its international businesses. Aldi continues its push to modernise stores and improve its product offerings at home and abroad. This represents ...

Both virtual and augmented reality technologies offer an entertaining escape from everyday reality and as such have generated a great deal of hype. Thus far, gaming has been the main avenue for exploration, but that does not mean these new ...

In internet retailing, it is important to understand the top two internet retailers in the world. Thanks to visionary business models and complete commitment to customer needs, Amazon and Alibaba have come to dominate their domestic markets. Soon ...

Apple’s retailing business remains a core part of its overall development strategy; its flagship stores (which are in the middle of a redesign) and its in-store service offer support to the brand’s premium positioning. A lack of meaningful product ...