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Radical lifestyle shifts motivated consumers to make intentional, mindful and ambitious decisions in 2021. Now, consumers are putting their plans into motion...
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GlaxoSmithKline, the owner of Aquafresh, Voltaren and Eno, has rejected a proposal from Unilever to acquire GSK's Consumer Healthcare business...
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Holiday demand pulled early with 30% of global sales recorded in the first three weeks of November...
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The global market value of the subscription economy will grow to $275bn in 2022, rising from $224bn in 2021, a new Juniper Research study has found...
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Hasbro, the owner of brands including Monopoly, Play-Doh, Dungeons & Dragons and Peppa Pig, has appointed Chris Cocks as its new CEO, effective 25 February...
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There are already more than a billion people interacting with businesses via either text or voice-based conversational tools. Conversational commerce is expected to grow to nearly $300bn by 2025 - half of it from chatbots...
Shweta Singh 7 Jan 2022
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In 2021 US sportswear brand, Nike, received $617m worth of social media exposure with 16,236 partners...
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Digital business transformation leaders at Publicis Sapient have defined the five core trends shaping the future of retail into 2022, along with what brands should focus on to become organisations that put shoppers first...
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McDonald's has moved US media buying and planning from Omnicom's OMD to Publicis Groupe's Starcom...
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The Weston family of Selfridges & Co. has sold the British department store operator to a Thai conglomerate Central Group led consortium...
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Launched in 2020, RTFKT is best known for making sneakers and other accessories for the metaverse...
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The visionary designer lost his private battle with cancer and passed away on Sunday, 28 November at the age of 41...
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New Oracle study finds 66% of consumers are worried that supply chain disruptions will ruin their holiday shopping plans...
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Latest Zebra study shows long-term changes to shopper behaviour driving retailers to prioritise improvements in their labour and supply chain capabilities...
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The future of retail will continue to be centered around the competition for consumer loyalty in an all-digital world, writes Robbie Kearns of Salesforce...
Robbie Kearns 15 Nov 2021
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FortiGuard Labs has observed an increasing number of scams involving counterfeit websites that "appear" to be legitimate e-commerce sites...
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Ultra-processed foods might not be a familiar term to many people. But it is an emerging, and increasingly dominant type of food in the world...
Edwin Kwong, Joanna Williams, Phillip Baker, Rob Moodie and Thiago M Santos 22 Oct 2021
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As omnichannel retail momentum accelerates, the value of global e-commerce payment transactions will exceed $7.5tn by 2026, from $4.9tn in 2021...
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Supply chains are facing a complex and unpredictable world in the year ahead...
Edward Sweeney 14 Jan 2022
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French luxury fashion house Chanel has named Leena Nair as its new CEO, effective from the end of January 2022...
