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UK-based company The John Lewis Partnership has announced a renewed business focus on differentiation and innovation. The company operates both the fashion, home and technology retailer John Lewis as well as the convenience-chain Waitrose. Chairman of the…
Aldi China plans to open a flagship store on Tmall, Alibaba’s B2C marketplace platform, within the next few months. The German supermarket chain has just launched a corporate website in China to signal its upcoming entry into Asia. This features a…
With the success of its trial with Tmall Global, Sainsbury’s China is doubling its product range. Citing “increasing demand”, the British supermarket retailer is about to release 100 more items, such as tea bags, coffee and pasta. “Chinese online shoppers are…
Upmarket British grocery chain Waitrose has broken new ground in a deal with online marketplace Alibaba, opening the doors for it to export to China. Waitrose China will offer products and ranges to buyers across the mainland exclusively through theRoyal Mail…
Waitrose customers have furious to boycott a store over its plan to ditch china plates and replace them with paper crockery. Clients of a branch of the general store in Chichester, West Sussex, have apparently complained to administration in what has been…
Swiss retailer Migros is to sell private label products into two Japanese retail chains. Switzerland’s largest grocer, and one of the world’s 40 largest supermarket chains, is to sell lines to Lawson’s Seijo Ishii stores and Seiyu, which is Walmart’s Japan…
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