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Online retail giants Temu and Shein are focusing on the European marketplace while TikTok could be the future of e-commerce, delegates at the World Retail Congress heard in Berlin on Tuesday during a …
Brick and mortar stores are more important than ever, delegates at the World Retail Congress in Berlin heard on Tuesday during a panel discussion on the ‘Art of Shopkeeping in the Digital Age’.  “The …
Agentic AI is rewriting how retailers approach customer services but while they offer greater brand exposure, they also require retailers to meet their promises because AI deals only in facts, a panel …
Under José Antonio Ramos Calamonte, ASOS has moved away from its promotional strategy and towards longer term relationships with customers to create sustainable growth, the CEO told delegates at World …
Artificial intelligence is transforming commerce at a “rapid speed,” Zalando Co-founder David Schneider said on Tuesday, as he mapped out how the leading European online platform was working with the …
Volatility and disruption are the new norms and retailers need to manage this constant flux and look at opportunities to differentiate in a rapidly changing consumer market, according to a panel at Wo …

The Future of the Middle Class in Emerging Markets

20 Mar 2026 Martina Bozadzhieva, Head of Corporate Advisory, Oxford Economics
For many retail leaders, identifying promising growth markets outside of core ones like Europe, the US, Japan, and others is a key component of a global growth strategy. Emerging markets can offer att …
The World Retail Congress confirms 20 CEOs and senior global retail experts as members of its Advisory Board for 2026, helping to deliver an unrivalled high-level forum for the retail sector. The Advi …
A key feature of the World Retail Congress Retail Executive Accelerator Programme is our speed mentoring sessions, designed to give participants personal access to some of the world's foremost retail …
This essential article pulls together what NRF 2026 revealed across the Retail Technology dispatches and what the KPMG Retail Think Tank is flagging, into five trends retailers should keep front-of-mi …
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