Retailing

Asian retailers are leading the market expansion through hyperlocal offerings and an omni-channel strategy to facilitate a seamless shopping experience and convenient store formats to appeal to the urbanizing, convenience-seeking and hyperconnected ...

Ikea is the only truly global furniture retailer, with outlets across most continents. It has built its share through a relatively small number of outlets, but each with very high sales volumes. Ikea is increasingly developing e-commerce, along with ...

H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) remains a global giant. The change in emphasis to online and the efforts to cut markdowns has curtailed its store opening programme in 2019. After a difficult three years, the giant is showing signs of going in the right...

Holidays and shopping seasons have long been an important tool for retailers to drive traffic and sales and work to increase market share. Most retailers use holidays to drive sales; the best retailers use holidays to advance their strategic agenda. ...

With Africa on the rise, consumer opportunities have typically been looked at through socioeconomic metrics. With the challenges the continent faces, opportunities can be developed by turning challenges into concepts and turning those concepts into ...

In an era marked by the rise of e-commerce, the variety stores channel stands out as a rare example of recent success in store-based retailing in the US. This success is due overwhelmingly to the robust performance of the leading US “dollar store” ...

Schwarz Beteiligungs GmbH continues to thrive, although its 2017 launch in the US (its first non- European market) has been bumpier than expected. While demand for its low prices remains central to its strategy, the company is also experimenting with...

Internet retailing in India is expected to more than double in value over the next five years, driven by low prices and increasing demand from smaller cities. However, the losses companies are making due to high customer acquisition and delivery ...

Aldi, which leads the discounters channel globally, has seen growth through the development of its international business. Aldi continues its push to modernise stores and improve its product offerings at home and abroad, and has added e-commerce ...

The Internet Retailer Conference and Expo at RetailX took place in June 2019, and Euromonitor International was in attendance. Every year, the event shines a spotlight on the most significant e-commerce developments in the US, and this year was no ...

The internet has transformed the way consumers shop and has thus posed a threat to the direct selling industry. Asia Pacific’s rising affluence and huge millennial population presents companies with opportunities for growth, especially in emerging ...

Magazine Luiza is a Brazilian retailer that was able to implement an efficient omnichannel operation while increasing both revenue and profitability in a challenging economic scenario. This report examines the key characteristics of the company’s ...

Majid Al Futtaim is the leading modern grocery retailer in the UAE due to its ability to respond to the country’s changing business climate and embrace digital technologies. It maintains competitive prices by expanding its private label range, ...

TATA Group is among the oldest and largest Indian conglomerates, and is one of the leading retailers in the country through its widespread network of physical retail outlets. In the past few years, however, it has lost market share to e-commerce ...

This report analyses the performance of direct selling in Latin American markets, considering how the different product categories perform within this channel. It also explores the competitive landscape, addressing initiatives from players with both ...

Reliance Retail Ltd, the retail arm of one of the largest Indian conglomerates, was an early entrant in organised retail. Under retail, it has subsidiaries spread across grocery, fashion, jewellery, consumer electronics, etc. Reliance is amongst the ...

Direct selling’s greatest strength is its ability to tap into power of communities. These communities are, however, changing especially in terms of the way the internet is altering how everyone communicates. Successful direct selling companies find ...

Flipkart Online Services Pvt Ltd is a leading internet retailer in the country. Amid increasing competition and recent changes to the FDI policy, Flipkart is increasing its focus on new categories to sustain its growth. After it got acquired by ...

Internet retailing is riding on an upward trend in APAC due to the technologically-savvy millennial population and growing consumerism of the middle class. The convenience provided by online platforms, product variety, and discounts offered act as ...

Although Walmart remained the largest retailer in the world by value sales in 2018, intensifying competition from e-commerce giants such as Amazon and Alibaba means that its reign at the top appears less secure now than at any time in the recent ...