GLOBAL
Target will add products from more than 500 Black-owned businesses across its multi-category assortment and increase its spend with more Black-owned companies...
GLOBAL
By 2025, e-commerce will expand by an additional $1.4tn, and account for half the growth in the global retail sector...
GLOBAL
Thanks to platforms that link online consumption to local interests, the desire to buy local, a trend fuelled by the Covid-19 pandemic, is giving rise to a new phenomenon known as digital localism...
Myriam Ertz, Damien Hallegatte, Imen Latrous and Julien Bousquet 19 Mar 2021
GLOBAL
Amazon announced Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO almost 27 years after he founded the company to sell books to customers over dial-up modems...
Venkatesh Shankar 4 Feb 2021
GLOBAL
Jeff Bezos is stepping down from his role as Amazon CEO, and will transition to the role of executive chair in the third quarter...
GLOBAL
Digital sales grew around 58% during the five days leading up to Christmas, despite earlier shipping cutoffs...
GLOBAL
Salesforce data shows global online spend of $270bn...
GLOBAL
Clothes shops are among the worst-hit retailers from the coronavirus pandemic, but luxury brands appear to be weathering the conditions relatively well...
Shaun Borstrock 17 Nov 2020
SOUTH AFRICA
For many industries, predicting the future during a pandemic would be difficult - if not impossible. Retail is different. Why?
Oliver Guy 13 Nov 2020
GLOBAL
For its second annual Checkerboard Day, Vans will focus on the vital role creativity plays in helping individuals and communities address mental health and well-being, in light of the period of global isolation experienced as a result of Covid-19.
GLOBAL
Digital sales are expected to hit all-time highs and lead to strained shipping capacity as retailers grapple with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
GLOBAL
A significant number of Chinese tourists spend large sums on luxury items, such as designer clothes and accessories, when they travel overseas...
Xiaoqing Chen and Carol Zhang 1 Oct 2020
GLOBAL
With Covid-19 lockdown measures around the world easing, just under three-quarters of global consumers report feeling comfortable returning to physical stores since lockdowns have eased...
GLOBAL
A new global report highlights challenges and opportunities for retailers as the Covid-19 pandemic drives permanent shifts in consumer behaviour now and beyond the holiday season...
