April 25, 2016
Behind The Curtain With Macy’s Backstage
While Macy’s “sky-is-falling” headlines seem to abound of late, it would be understandable if the mood within the massive department store chain was a bit fraught with tension these days....
April 20, 2016
EU: Linklaters announces 25 new Partner promotions
Linklaters has promoted 24 lawyers to partner in its largest promotion round since 2013. The promotions, which take effect from 1 May, include 10 partners in the firm’s London headquarters....
April 19, 2016
Mexico/Chile: Soriana and Falabella, retail giants, to begin $600 mill....
Mexican supermarket chain Soriana and Chile’s Falabella have announced they will be developing a joint business venture of home improvement and construction materials stores, which will involve a $600 million...
April 13, 2016
Why The Supermarket’s Past Is Holding It Back
Oh, millennials — so fickle, so finicky and so hard for old-fashioned retailers to get a handle on. Now that more and more Instagram-posting, Snapchat-snapping consumers are coming of age, though, industries...
April 11, 2016
Can Beacons Make Luxury Apartments More Luxurious?
Depending on your persuasion, millennials’ generational lack of interest in buying real estate can be chalked up to their inherent indolence, their preference for communal and urban living arrangements or...
April 08, 2016
Coming Soon To The Vegas Strip? 75K Sq Ft Of...
Luxury retail is stretching out in Sin City. Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Wynn Las Vegas resort has announced plans to add more than 75,000 square feet of luxury...
April 07, 2016
US: Quinn Emanuel partner is now Executive Deputy AG
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the appointment of Manisha M. Sheth as Executive Deputy Attorney General for Economic Justice, overseeing five litigation bureaus: Investor Protection, Antitrust, Internet and...
April 06, 2016
Orange Makes $85M Nigerian eCommerce Play
French telecom giant Orange is making a play in the African retail industry with a $85 million investment in Nigerian eCommerce company Africa Internet Group (AIG). Orange’s investment in AIG opens...
April 05, 2016
Uruguay: Real Estate firms denounce unfair competition
Over 70 Real Estate firms have shut down this season in the East zone of Uruguay. Many of their owners have turned to the informal sector, while others have switched...
Real-time payments already account for at least 15% of B2B payments volume in the insurance, manufacturing and retail industries. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest study of 500 executives across the retail, insurance, manufacturing and real estate sectors examines how these industries are using real time payments today and their plans for the future. Read more in “The State of Real-Time Payments,” a collaboration with The Clearing House.