Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | September 10, 2015 Premium John Lewis Continues to Evolve Its Multi-Channel PropositionBritish department store chain John Lewis has shaken up its top management team with the introduction of two new roles: Customer Director and Group Productivity Director.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | September 4, 2015 Premium August 2015 US Same-Store SalesThe four-week August period had 28 selling days both this year and last year.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 26, 2015 Premium WeChat MOVES INTO CHINA’S BOOMING MOBILE PAYMENT MARKETWeChat takes on Alipay in the mobile payments market, with WeChat Wallet. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 13, 2015 Premium 12 Issues That Could Impact The ClubsWarehouse club stores have enjoyed years of revenue growth, and clubs continue to post solid results despite flattish US retail sales. The state of the industry has been and continues to be prosperous, which prompts our contrarian side of our brains to wonder if we should start to identify emerging developments that could spoil the good times.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 11, 2015 Premium Jet.com Update Aug 11, 2015The third week of July 2015 was an exciting one for retail. We saw both hype and grumbling mover Amazon’s Prime Day launch on July 15 and, ultimately, solid results from the company.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 11, 2015 Premium July 2015 US Same-Store SalesThe five-week July period had 28 selling days both this year and last year.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 5, 2015 Premium Stich Fix A Personal Styling E-Tailer for EveryoneStich Fix provides seamless and personalized style service based on information obtained via a 10-minute style surveyRead More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 4, 2015 Premium INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING WITH SCREEMOWe recently met with Yonatan Zur, a cofounder of Israeli start-up Screemo. The company has built a platform that allows brands to easily create interactive mobile-to-screen experiences that improve customer engagement. Zur was in Hong Kong for the inaugural RISE conference taking place July 31–August 1, and he spent some time with us to tell us about Screemo’s technology and solutions. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | August 2, 2015 Premium Automating the Interview Process with IntervyoWe met with Jacky Hazan, Founder and CEO of Intervyo, an Israeli startup that aims to automate the interview process for businesses. Hazan was in Hong Kong for the inaugural RISE conference taking place July 31–August 1, and he spent some time with us to tell us about Intervyo’s recruiting solution and the technology behind it.Read More
Product TypeDeep Dive Product TypeDeep Dive | July 28, 2015 Premium Connected Cars: A Mobile Device CruisingAutomobiles are logically the next devices to be connected to the Internet, since we spend so much time in them and want connectivity everywhere. They will function as nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT), which is forecasted to encompass 50 billion devices by 2020.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 20, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #4: Moment of the truth… recap“Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of new members who signed up on Prime Day, and our tens of millions of existing members for making our first ever Prime Day a huge success,” said Greg Greeley, Vice President of Amazon Prime, at the conclusion of Amazon’s inaugural Prime Day 24-hour super sale.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 20, 2015 Premium Jet.com: The Stealth Fighter with Amazon Squarely in Its SightsThere’s a new e-commerce startup in town—by the name of Jet.com—that’s poised to give Amazon some competition by combining the membership approach of Costco, the broad retail category coverage of Amazon, and some innovative analytics for computing pricing and shipping. The Jet.com team is extremely familiar with Amazon’s competitive advantages as well as its weaknesses, since Jet.com‘s CEO Marc Lore worked at Amazon for a couple of years after it acquired his startup (Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com).Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #3: AS THE DAY comes to the end…FBIC’s global team has been tracking Amazon Prime Day and its “lighting deals” around the clock today. Since midnight PDT, FBIC team members in Hong Kong, the UK and the US have been following Amazon’s global sites, social media outlets and media responses. Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #2: AS THE DAY GOES ON…FBIC Global Retail & Technology is tracking Amazon Prime Day live. The sales event is a global shopping day exclusively for Amazon Prime members who have been promised new deals every 10 minutes through the day on July 15.Read More
Product TypeInsight Report Product TypeInsight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #1: Launch UpdateThere was certainly a lot of hype surrounding the launch of Amazon's Prime Day, the big online sales day that the company announced on July 6 and which we previewed in our "Amazon Prime Day" report on July 14.Read More
