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Africa retail outlook 2020

Understand the trends we expect to see in Africa, from retailers putting a stronger focus on ROI, to providing value and digitising operations, amongst others, that will shape grocery retailing in 2020.

Middle East retail outlook 2020

We look at the latest trends set to shape the grocery market in the region over the next 12 months.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): how branded suppliers are bringing their purpose to life

Beyond flexing their trading strategies, product suppliers have taken a broader role in supporting the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic. In this presentation, we highlight four pillars around which these have been clustered

South Africa Country Presentation

This guide to South Africa explores the key trends in grocery retail, the outlook for the market over the five year forecast period and the growth strategies of country’s leading retailers.

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7-Eleven to enter Israel in 2022

7–Eleven has signed a master franchise agreement with Electra Consumer Products Ltd. to develop and operate 7-Eleven stores in Israel.

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Amazon rebrands Souq in Egypt

Amazon has launched Amazon.eg in Egypt, a rebranding of Souq.com. Amazon rebrands Souq Amazon.eg has been rebranded from Souq.com, an ecommerce platform which Amazon acquired in 2017 in the Middle East. Shoppers’ account information for Souq.com was automatically transferred to the new site. In June 2020, Amazon also converted the Souq website in Saudi Arabia to Amazon.sa. In January 202...

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Presentations

Strategic outlook for Walmart

13/07/2021

We look at Walmart's strategic priorities for the next five years.

The fallout from COVID-19: what has shifted in global retail and what will be the pandemic’s legacies?

06/07/2021

Over a year since most of the world started to experience the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, a clearer picture has emerged of how global retail will be changed over the medium term. In this report we outline how the retail industry will continue to adapt in 2021 and 2022 and place some markers in the ground on COVID-19’s retail legacies.

Store of the future 2030: a channel perspective

23/06/2021

This report showcases how stores from different channels will evolve over the next decade, where retailers will focus their attention and what to expect. It follows on from our Store of the future 2030 report and also acts as a case study as to how your business can use our store of the future model to develop your own vision and roadmap towards achieving your own store of the future.

Sustainability trends in 2021

16/06/2021

In this report we highlight four global sustainability trends we expect retailers to implement as part of sustainability strategies during 2021, and beyond.

Store of the future 2030

09/06/2021

This report provides our vision for how food and consumer goods stores will evolve over the next decade. The world in 2030 will look very different to today and how people shop for their food and consumer goods is changing rapidly. Traditional store operating models are coming under significant strain and we believe that retailers and suppliers need to work harder to evolve store formats to ensure that they reflect how people shop today and will do in the future.

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