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Which retail advertising campaigns impressed the most this year? We asked a selection of top retail marketers and retail experts to select their favourite campaigns from across traditional channels, s ...

Matthew Shay, President and CEO, National Retail Federation   The economy has been much stronger in 2024 than most experts expected, as consumers –supported by a healthy labour market and wage growth ...

Which were the most outstanding new stores of 2024? We asked store design expert, John Ryan, Managing Director, Newstores, for his selection.   Are there times when you feel you should have got out an ...

Retailing has never been easy. It has always been highly competitive but has also had to operate against the macro climate of the day. But in all our conversations with retailers across this year and ...

What do our challenging times mean for retail leaders and leadership teams? The pace of change and the drivers of change means that the role and the qualities of a retail CEO are now very different fr ...

What does the future retail landscape look like as the industry looks beyond an “omnichannel” world?  How will the changing balance of power towards consumers impact the way retailers have to operate ...

The World Retail Congress is proud to be working in partnership again with the International Association of Department Stores to bring together the annual review of this year’s Holiday windows from ar ...

We asked retail leaders from around the world for their reflections on 2024 and what they see as the key goals and challenges for the year ahead. 

According to the first EU-wide monitoring of food waste data published by Eurostat, the retail and wholesale sector generated the least amount of food waste in 2020, accounting for only 7%. This demon ...

SHEIN is shaking up fashion retail and is now the fastest growing fashion retailer in the world. At this year's World Retail Congress in Barcelona, SHEIN's Vice Chairman, Donald Tang was interviewed o ...