Category: Retail / Wholesale / Food

FTC: Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm
2. 11. 2023 No Responses

FTC: Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm

Amazon com used a series of illegal strategies to stay on top of online retailing including using an algorithm to push up prices to U.S. households by more than $1 billion, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a less-redacted...
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$28.8 Billion Worth Adidas Projects Major Losses in Revenue
12. 2. 2023 No Responses

$28.8 Billion Worth Adidas Projects Major Losses in Revenue

Adidas is suffering after bidding goodbye to Kanye West. The brand and the celebrity majorly uplifted each other with their Yeezy collaboration, which began in 2015. The partnership became super successful, making billions of dollars in revenue, which came to...
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FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants
23. 4. 2022 No Responses

FBI Warns of Targeted Cyber Attacks On Food Plants

FBI warns of targeted cyber attacks on food plants after mysterious rash of fires. “A significant disruption of grain production…”  The FBI’s Cyber Division published a notice this past week warning about increased cyber-attack thr...
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LA Import Volume Sinks As Shipping Traffic Jam Worsens
16. 12. 2021 No Responses

LA Import Volume Sinks As Shipping Traffic Jam Worsens

Despite America’s epic consumer boom, containerized imports to the Port of Los Angeles dropped to 403,569 twenty-foot equivalent units in November, down 14% from October and down 13.2% year on year. For the second month in a row, Los Angeles’...
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KFC Unveils Robotized Store
27. 6. 2020 No Responses

KFC Unveils Robotized Store

Restaurant Of The Post-Pandemic Future – Fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has debuted the “restaurant of the future,” one where automation dominates the storefront, and little to no interaction is seen between customers and emp...
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French luxury giant LVMH buys iconic American jeweler Tiffany for over $16 Billion
25. 11. 2019 No Responses

French luxury giant LVMH buys iconic American jeweler Tiffany for over $16 Billion

The world’s leading luxury group LVMH has agreed to buy a 182-year-old US jeweler Tiffany & Co. for $135 per share in cash. The $16.2 billion deal will become the largest luxury-goods deal ever. “The acquisition of Tiffany will strengthen...
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Carrefour prepares to exit China
25. 6. 2019 No Responses

Carrefour prepares to exit China

Carrefour prepares to exit China, sells 80% stake to Suning. Carrefour has announced that it’s selling 80% of its China operations to Chinese retail giant Suning for 4.8 billion yuan ($700 million). The French supermarket giant retains two of seven seats...
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New Delivery Drones from DHL and Ford
26. 5. 2019 No Responses

New Delivery Drones from DHL and Ford

DHL Launches First Fully-Automated Drone Delivery Service In China. DHL Express, an international courier, and Ehang, a Chinese company focused on producing intelligent autonomous aerial vehicles, have entered into a partnership to solve the last-mile delivery...
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Alibaba Blasts Q4 Earnings Estimates
15. 5. 2019 No Responses

Alibaba Blasts Q4 Earnings Estimates

Sales of Alibaba Group Holding, China’s largest e-shop platform, exceeded analysts’ expectations and increased 51%. The operator of the well-known AliExpress site announced that its sales in the fourth financial quarter ended March 31 were up 51% y...
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Markets Have Deteriorated Rapidly as Box Demand Tumbled 3%
16. 4. 2019 No Responses

Markets Have Deteriorated Rapidly as Box Demand Tumbled 3%

For high-end analysts, cardboard demand is one of secret indicator. The cardboard industry is an oligopoly, with a few producers making most of the boxes and International Paper is the leading producer of containerboard globally. A limited number of competito...
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Biggest Decline in Global Trade Since 2009 Crisis
1. 4. 2019 No Responses

Biggest Decline in Global Trade Since 2009 Crisis

According to the Dutch Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), world trade recorded biggest percentual drop since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009. A report released last week shows that world trade grew by 2.3% in January after the index...
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Levi Strauss goes public, the IPO valuation is $ 6.6 billion
21. 3. 2019 No Responses

Levi Strauss goes public, the IPO valuation is $ 6.6 billion

Levi Strauss returns to the stock market after 34 years of absence. The clothing seller valued its initial public offering on Wednesday at $17 a share and valued the company at approximately $6.6 billion. This is a higher valuation than...
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Warren Buffett wants to make an ‘elephant-sized’ purchase, but says ‘prices are sky-high’
23. 2. 2019 No Responses

Warren Buffett wants to make an ‘elephant-sized’ purchase, but says ‘prices are sky-high’

“In the years ahead, we hope to move much of our excess liquidity into businesses that Berkshire will permanently own. The immediate prospects for that, however, are not good: Prices are sky-high for businesses possessing decent long-term prospects,&#822...
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Driverless delivery startup Nuro raises almost $1 billion from SoftBank
11. 2. 2019 No Responses

Driverless delivery startup Nuro raises almost $1 billion from SoftBank

Nuro is already testing fully driverless grocery deliveries in the Phoenix area on public roads. The autonomous delivery startup Nuro has raised $940 million from The Softbank Vision Fund, making it one of the most generously funded startups in the driverless...
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