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...
UNITED KINGDOM
British online retailer Asos has acquired Topshop along with the Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands from failed fashion retail group Arcadia...
EUROPE
Irish fast-fashion retailer Primark has no plans to sell its clothes online. This is despite the company warning that lockdown store closures could cost it losses of more than £1bn...
Lisa Jack and Regina Frei 25 Jan 2021
SOUTH AFRICA
The new era of smart packaging, and consequently products, will connect, improve and transform industries and shape new consumer expectations...
Robert Lockyer 21 Jan 2021
GLOBAL
Digital sales grew around 58% during the five days leading up to Christmas, despite earlier shipping cutoffs...
SOUTH AFRICA
The British fashion group Arcadia has fallen into administration, leaving 13,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia's market share slumped from around 4.5% in 2015, to 2.7% in 2020...
Julie Hodson 3 Dec 2020
GLOBAL
Salesforce data shows global online spend of $270bn...
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
SOUTH AFRICA
YeboBox is a new subscription service that delivers a monthly box of different homegrown snacks to nostalgic South Africans and Zimbabweans living in the UK...
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 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...
