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LVMH’s Selective Retailing division reports organic sales growth
Luxury group LVMH’s Selective Retailing division reported organic sales growth over the first half-year of 16% to E3.6bn (£2.81bn), while profit soared by 30% to E373m (£191.1m). The retailer said it benefited from sustained growth in Asia and North America.The group will open three concessions at Hong Kong airport by ...
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Fnac reports sales decrease
Fnac, PPR’s books, music and electronics business, reported sales were down 1.1% for the first six months of this year to E1.77bn (£1.38bn). Like-for-like sales fell 1% and the retailer recorded an operating loss of E7.5m (£5.8m) compared with an operating profit of E6.7m (£5.2m) for the same period last ...
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Carrefour to reintroduce entry-price products
Carrefour is reintroducing non-branded entry-price products in parallel with its Carrefour Discount range, it has been reported.Only a handful of SKUs are available at present – including ham and coffee – but more could be on the way. Most of them are packaged in a similar style to the distinctive ...
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AnalysisCarrefour must focus on most dynamic markets
Carrefour’s second-quarter results remained in line with the first quarter as the retailer posted turnover down by 0.4% to j21.71bn (£17.03bn), excluding petrol and at constant exchange rates.
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Grocery giant Leclerc posts first half-year sales
Grocery giant Leclerc reported first half-year sales in its domestic market up 8.3% to j15.21bn (£11.93bn), excluding fuel.Total sales for the first half increased by 8.1% to j20.47bn (£16.06bn), including fuel. Company president Michel-Édouard Leclerc said the results showed a consolidation of its “low-price positioning, which is not only a ...
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Micromania introduces new store-type
Games retailer Micromania, which is owned by GameStop, has introduced a new store-type centred on an area known as an ‘M Zone’. Customers can play one another, test games or seek assistance from staff. The first shop adopting the new approach is in Nice’s Cap 3000 shopping centre.Micromania president Pierre ...
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Ikea France to install pop-up VIP lounge
Ikea France is to install a pop-up VIP lounge at the Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, open to all members of the public from July 13 to August 5, it has been reported.Billed as ‘Ikea Lounge: the first democratic airport lounge’, the 721 sq ft space at Terminal 3 will have ...
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Carrefour to experiment with discount zones
Carrefour is to experiment with discount zones in five of its French hypermarkets as part of changes implemented by new chief executive Georges Plassat.The discount areas will initially comprise just one or two aisles in each hypermarket. They will display nationally branded manufacturer products and will not be a showcase ...
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NewsMajestic Wine profits rocket 14.5%
Pre-tax profit at Majestic Wine rose 14.5% to £23.2m in the 53 weeks to April 2.
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Multichannel to be centre of strategic plan for Leclerc
Hypermarket business Leclerc said multichannel would be at the centre of its strategic plan, ‘Leclerc 2015’.Stores will feature a specialist offer and organise products into departments to support its drive-in stores or pick-up locations. By 2015, Leclerc will develop new product offers: it forecast that non-food, in its present form, ...
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Grocer ITM reports like-for-like revenue growth
Grocery retailer ITM (Intermarché) has, after several years of struggling sales, reported like-for-like revenue growth of 3.1% to e19.2bn (£16.3bn) excluding fuel for the 2011 financial year. Like-for-like sales in the first four months of 2012 rose 7.9%.ITM’s hypermarkets outperformed its supermarkets in 2011, delivering a 3.9% uplift in sales, ...
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Carrefour’s chief executive Lars Olofsson to depart earlier than expected
French retailer Carrefour’s chief executive Lars Olofsson is to step down earlier than expected. In light of the fact that “all the required conditions were met to shorten the transition period that began on January 29”, which was supposed to end on June 18, Georges Plassat becomes the new chief ...
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NewsLK Bennett secures funding for US expansion
LK Bennett has raised £16m of new funding to accelerate expansion in the US.
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Four key executives to leave Ikea France
Ikea France has disclosed the departure of four executives. A former managing director of Ikea France, a former human resources director, a former chief financial officer and the current director of risk management will leave the group.Last month, Ikea admitted to activities contravening ethical standards after workers sued it for ...
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Carrefour’s bid to acquire Guyenne et Gascogne approved
Carrefour’s bid to acquire Guyenne et Gascogne has been approved by France’s antitrust agency. In December 2011, Carrefour submitted a E494m (£394.6m) cash takeover bid for its franchisee.Guyenne et Gascogne operates six Carrefour hypermarkets and 28 Carrefour Market supermarkets in France that generated net income of E25m (£20m) in 2011 ...
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OpinionTime to get smart with CRM
As is the case with multichannel integration, customer relationship management (CRM) is a term that’s been around for years yet too few retailers appear to be practicing it.
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OpinionFrench retail: Vive la différence
The view, admiringly or not, that the French differ intractably from their neighbours, is enshrined in cliche.
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Grocer Casino sells real estate stake
Grocer Casino has sold 9.8% of its stake in its real estate subsidiary Mercialys via an equity swap with French bank Crédit Agricole, generating E138m (£112.1m).It followed Casino’s disclosure in early February of its plans for Mercialys, in which the retailer would decrease its holding in the property company in ...
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AnalysisCan Ikea change the face of consumer electronics?
Ikea has surprised us all with its plans to launch a range of living room furniture with integrated consumer electronics.
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AnalysisChallenges await the new Carrefour chief executive
In Lars Olofsson’s last full quarter as chief executive, French grocery giant Carrefour reported a 0.9% rise in first quarter sales excluding fuel, at constant exchange rates, to E22.5bn (£19bn).