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Frasers Group has acquired Harvey Nichols. The deal says something important about the state of luxury retail and who its future custodians might be.
Fans outspend non-fans by 27%, three quarters of Americans identify as part of a fandom, and the fandom economy is already generating billions in verified commercial activity across music, sports, fashion, and retail. So, why are brands not engaging more?
How people browse, shop and make decisions is changing fast in 2026. But will AI replace search engines? Here's what the latest research shows.
The African retail market crossed $2 trillion in consumer spending in 2025. Most brands competing for a share are doing so in the wrong markets, with the wrong tools.
A region at the peak of its tourism ambitions. A conflict that arrived without warning. And a set of questions the travel economy had never had to answer quite this fast.
A pharmaceutical intervention is doing what decades of dietary trends could not, restructuring consumer demand at scale. The GLP-1 impact on retail is already visible in purchase data.
The under-16 social media ban is becoming a global policy trend, although its commercial impact on social commerce is more limited and specific than most brands realize.
The Saudi fashion industry is defying the global slowdown. Behind the numbers lies a culturally confident consumer, a heritage revival with commercial logic, and global brands learning to play by Saudi rules.
European retail distress has not been this severe since 2009. The Weil European Distress Index explains why, and what comes next.
The Indian retail real estate market is expanding at a pace that demand is outrunning supply, even as Western counterparts continue to contract. Whether the infrastructure can keep up, well, this is the question.
Argentina’s non-human corporations bill promises companies run entirely by AI, with no humans required. Or does it? The actual legislation tells a different story.
Single-location retail sounds like a limitation. For some retailers, it turned out to be the most defensible department store strategy in the business.
Riyadh, Seoul, Mumbai and São Paulo are the new fashion capitals shifting the industry’s center of gravity. And they are doing it on their own terms.
Operators across the US, Europe, Latin America, and the Gulf reported Q1 2026 grocery retail earnings shaped by three very different forces: revenue earned beyond the shelf, currency swings, and geopolitical stability.
The new EU tax on fast retail lands on Shein, Temu and AliExpress, and on every small sender outside the bloc shipping anything under €150. Whether that adds up to meaningful reform is a different question entirely.