Philippine restaurant operator Jollibee Foods is to buy US cafe brand The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf outright for US $350 million. The acquisition is Jollibee’s largest to date, and …
Lidl Ireland has announced that it has opened its 200th store in Tullamore in County Offaly. The new store is part of the retailer’s €200 million investment plan for 2019, …
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen is set to develop and open more than 1500 Popeyes restaurants in Mainland China over the next 10 years. Popeyes China will be the last of Restaurant …
Australia’s General Pants Co. announced its plans to enter New Zealand in the spring, followed by a rollout of multiple retail stores in the coming two years. The Sydney-headquartered General …
The LEGO Group is opening up shop in the UK and the Netherlands in time for the holiday season. The company is opening two new locations in Birmingham’s Bull Ring …
Adding foodservice to a retail environment is hardly new. Department stores have married retail and restaurants for well over a century, and drugstores routinely had soda fountains. Brands like Ikea have …
Toys”R”Us parent company Tru Kids announced that two brand new stores would be opening in the U.S. this holiday season. The company will partner with experiential retailer b8ta to design …
Japanese fashion brand Uniqlo will open three stores in India, in the Delhi-NCR region, starting with its maiden store in October, Fast Retailing Co. Ltd said in an announcement. The …
Albertsons is currently testing a delivery subscription service in about a dozen stores across various markets. The service, which does not yet have an official name, pricing plan or order …
I recently attended a meeting with some Levi’s VPs who introduced to us the company’s expansion strategies in Europe, as well as the new concepts related to the business strategy. …
Charming Charlie, a Houston retailer known for selling flashy and colorful women’s accessories, is going out of business after filing for bankruptcy for the second time in less than two …
New York’s less ubiquitous doughnut chain Krispy Kreme is coming back to town in a big way. The popular bakery company, which currently only has a Penn Station outpost in …












