New survey results suggest where, and how, food retailers in Asia might rethink their businesses in the wake of COVID-19. by Dymfke Kuijpers, Simon Wintels, and Naomi Yamakawa As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across the globe, threatening lives as well as livelihoods, it has clarifi...
Angelus Bernreuther, Head of Investor Relationship Management Kaufland (Germany), describes the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for inner-city retail locations as well as the food retail sector in its role as supplier, and discusses new approaches and concepts for the retail industry.Georgi,...
Now is the time to think about retail M&A after COVID-19. Four trends could unlock opportunities that enable retailers, brands, and investors to shape the next normal.
The COVID-19 pandemic that broke out across Asia in early 2020 has shaken the global retail industry. In the Asia Pacific region,over 60% of people were already using e-commerce platformsbefore protracted lockdowns made their marks on people’s ongoing habits. In the US, downloads of groce...
This week’s Retail Note references a new Knight Frank Research piece and infographic on the Retail market two years on from the initial COVID-19 outbreak. It challenges some of the widely held views that many of the changes witnessed during the pandemic
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After the COVID-19 epidemic erupted, the entire retail industry faced severe challenges including zero foot traffic, liquidity crises, supply chain disruption, shortage of frontline employees, and difficulty in managing organizations. According to preliminary estimates from the global consulting firm Kearne...
The Post-pandemic Realities of the Retail Industry Retail is an industry that took a massive hit due to Covid-19. This was one industry that had to react fast in order to sustain and stay relevant and definitely had to change their business strategies. With lockdowns and curfews implemented...
Through it all though, retail trade association British Retail Consortium (BRC) has been on hand helping advise retailers and conducting valuable research to help the industry make sense of what’s happening. Covid-19 isn’t its own concern though as the BRC is constantly working to ...