All China articles
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AnalysisAnalysis: Will Ted Baker’s new ‘growth formula’ put it back in fashion?
After enduring a torrid 2019 marred by numerous profit warnings and seismic change at management level, Ted Baker has unveiled a new strategy designed to take the business forward. Retail Week analyses whether it will be enough to return the fashion brand to its former glories
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Burberry cautions post-pandemic recovery will take ‘some time’
Luxury goods retailer Burberry anticipates a potentially lengthy period before business returns to normal.
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Analysis
Dispatch: Six of the best global innovations sparked by coronavirus
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How Spar International is thinking like a marketplace amid coronavirus
As coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, Retail Week brings you regular dispatches from international retailers and experts, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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Coronavirus to wipe £1.7trn off global retail sales
The coronavirus crisis will wipe $2.1trn (£1.7trn) off of global retail sales in 2020, new data has predicted.
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Opinion
Dispatch: How China’s JD.com shored up its supply chain during coronavirus
As the coronavirus takes its toll on economies and businesses across the globe, we bring you regular dispatches from international retailers, who provide their insights into how they are coping with the pandemic.
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Opinion
Opinion: Amazon-Deliveroo CMA verdict must spark more collaboration
It was a judgement that should have been reached a long time ago, but one that, given its timing, could carry far greater significance for retail.
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Analysis
Analysis: H&M’s China sales trend offers fashion retailers coronavirus hope
With almost 4,000 of its 5,065 stores closed worldwide, H M has been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak affecting sales in its 54 markets.
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Adidas and Puma profits battered by coronavirus
Sportswear giants Adidas and Puma have suffered a drop in sales in China as a result of coronavirus and warned the disruption would impact other markets.
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Ikea launches Tmall trial in bid to woo Chinese consumer
Ikea has announced plans to start selling on a third-party marketplace for the first time through Chinese platform Tmall.
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Coronavirus: Half of UK retailers grappling supply chain disruption
More than half of UK retailers are already grappling supply chain disruption in the wake of coronavirus, new research has revealed.
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Tesco exits China with £275m deal
Tesco has sold its 20% holding in Chinese business Gain Land as it increases focus on its core operations.
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Coronavirus: Crunch time looms for general merchandise supply chain
The next month will be a make or break period for many retailers desperate to avoid empty shelves as the coronavirus crisis and its impact on the supply chain intensifies.
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Analysis
Analysis: Chinese etailers’ awe-inspiring coronavirus reaction
The coronavirus outbreak has sparked fears and headlines worldwide since emerging in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the start of the year.
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Analysis
Analysis: What impact will coronavirus have on global fashion retail?
What began in early January as a pneumonia outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has since been declared a worldwide health emergency. Retail Week looks at what effect the outbreak will have on retail supply chains in the region and tourism.
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Store gallery: JD.com launches Seven Fun lifestyle concept store
Chinese etail giant JD.com has unveiled a new concept store in Beijing designed to act as a ‘third space’ for working professionals between their office and home.
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Opinion
Opinion: Look to Asia for how to build online sales
It might be assumed that the ceiling has been reached for online FMCG sales, but that assumption falls wide of the mark.
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Harrods sets up permanent residence in China
Harrods is set to open its first store in China in 2020 amid growing customer demand.
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Suning to open 10,000 stores in 2020 in £4.4bn expansion splurge
Chinese retail titan Suning has revealed plans to open 10,000 new stores and create 8,000 jobs next year as part of an ambitious RMB 40bn (£4.4bn) expansion strategy.
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Walmart to double down on China with new store rollout
Walmart has unveiled plans to open 500 new stores in China, in a bid to more than double its footprint in the country.
