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Labelled with love
From Carrefour to Wal-Mart, Tesco to Best Buy, Zara to Ikea, retailing has never been sexier or generated so much money – and column inches.
Snake charming
"Cobra Beer is known for its smooth taste, and millions of bottles are sold each year. Progress hasn’t always been as smooth as the product, however. Steve Coomber tells why the Cobra story would make anyone say “cheers”."
Delivering responsibility
For any corporate social responsibility initiative to succeed, it must be embedded in the operation of the company. Rajashree Birla believes that execution and monitoring processes should be as well defined for CSR as in any other business activity.
Fashion Sense
Spanish retailer, Zara, has crafted a sweet success story riding on its image as a low-cost, high fashion store. Nirmalya Kumar and Sophie Linguri take to the High Street to look at Zara’s route from rags to riches.
The Savannah Hypothesis of shopping
Retailing is big business; both in terms of the billions in turnover and in the ever increasing battle for a greater share of our leisure time. Charles Dennis and Andrew McCall uncover the meaning behind the mannequins.
Welcome Home - Innovating the Forward Supply Chain
Most retailers have moved relentlessly towards the low price, low customer contact, big box experience over the past three decades.
The global retail challenge
With the onward march of globalised retail giants, how can suppliers and retailers come to agreement over pricing and discounting? Nirmalya Kumar believes that a sea-change in retail marketing and internal conflict resolution is needed.
Learning to display Emotional Intelligence
Serge Sardo argues that recent research in Australia demonstrates that Emotional Intelligence is not simply an ingrained trait but can be taught.
The great pretenders: the magic of luxury goods
Luxury goods offer quality, emotion and rarity, observes Bernard Catry. But how can this scarcity be maintained while, at the same time, expanding sales into emerging new luxury market segments?
From Wood Panels to Mobile Phones: Strategic Diversification at Sonae Group
Case study: This article tells the story of growth and diversification at Sonae, now Portugal’s largest company.
Multi-Channels: The Real Winners in the B2C Internet Wars
This article presents evidence that multichannel retailers are out-performing online-only (“pure-play”) retailers, and that their success is reflected in their market value.
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