European Retail Digest articles from September 2003

European Retail Digest archives from September 2003

EAERCD Conference, Paris, July 2003.
September 22, 2003... This was the 12th in the biennial series of research conferences organised by the European Association for Education and Research in Commercial Distribution. These conferences report on academic research over a wide range of academic...

Full Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Retail Conference 2002, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 30 October, 2 November 2002, published by Templeton College, University of Oxford.
September 22, 2003... China, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand--Tesco, Carrefour, Ito Yokado, Courts and IKEA, the enumeration of countries and companies present in the titles of the nine papers of the published full proceedings of the second Asia Pacific...

Editorial.
September 22, 2003... Director, Oxford Institute of Retail Management At the time of writing this Editorial in late September, the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry had just announced her decision on the various proposals for the acquisition of the...

Competition issues in European grocery retailing.
September 22, 2003... Introduction A series of articles published in the Retail Digest between December 1999 (Issue 24) and June 2001 (Issue 30) examines the extent to which each region of Europe has embraced the retail revolution and identifies the degree of...

Competition and collaboration in European grocery retailing.
September 22, 2003... Introduction That grocery retailing in Europe has undergone a revolution in the last couple of decades is unquestionable. The face of grocery retailing has changed significantly with the emergence of new, large-store formats and the...

Franchising in Spain: the success of being your own boss.
September 22, 2003... Introduction Franchising is a long-term collaborative relationship between two agents--a franchisor and a franchisee--who are legally and financially independent but share a common goal. A franchise is based on an agreement in which the...

Real choice in food grocery shopping in Britain.(Feature: Retail Competition)
September 22, 2003... In the European Retail Digest, Tenbusch (2002) advised us that, "over the last decade, only discounters have been able to achieve significant revenue growth". The most casual observer of the retail scene in Europe would quickly realise that the...

Retailer-supplier relations in European competition policy: a case study.(Feature)
September 22, 2003... Introduction Within the past ten years the issue of 'buyer power' (the bargaining strength that retailers possess vis-a-vis their suppliers) has attracted progressively more attention from antitrust authorities. Increased concentration in...

Sophisticated segmentation and precise targeting: loyalty cards in Italy.
September 22, 2003... Context The grocery retail scene has been marked in recent years by the onset of a marketing culture, not only in mature and concentrated markets such as the UK but also diffusely across Europe. Low growth rates and increased competition...

Dynamic and turbulent change: food retail development in Greece.
September 22, 2003... Introduction Two earlier articles in European Retail Digest recorded the revolutionary changes in Greek retailing that had started to take place about 1990/91 (Bennison & Boutsouki, 1996, 1998). The removal of legislative constraints on...

Growing a supermarket concept in a discounter dominated grocery market: interview with John Rix, chief executive officer of Kaiser's Tengelmann AG.(Interview)
September 22, 2003... Kaiser's Tengelmann AG (KTAG) is the supermarket subsidiary of Tengelmann. The company is based in Viersen and has a portfolio of 737 stores located in four geographical regions. In Berlin and North Rhine the company operates under the brand...

Feeling happy after shopping at Veropoulos: interview with Nikos Veropoulos, General Manager, Veropoulos Group of Supermarkets, Greece.(Region: Southern Europe)
September 22, 2003... Nikos Veropoulos has just returned from working in a shop--the Blackrock branch of SuperQuinn in Ireland! This typifies his attitude to retailing, "hands on" and innovative, never wanting to leave the shop floor but also always wanting to learn...

Southern Europe: politics below the 'olive line'.(European Political Issues)
September 22, 2003... It is a truism of politics in the EU that arguments take place 'across the olive line' and alliances on specific issues are more likely to be formed between member states that lie north or south of it. South of the line there are clearly four...

Workforce management: the last great differentiator for retailers?
September 22, 2003... With the introduction of the new Working Time Directive in April this year, UK employers now have a statutory duty to consider applications for flexible working from parents of children under the age of six and disabled children under the age...

Grocery sales by channel.(Letter: America)
September 22, 2003... The latest US Commerce Department's sales estimates for grocery stores, warehouse clubs and superstores (WCS) between 1997 and 2002 are presented in Figure 1. Based on these figures, our estimates of food and grocery sales through grocery...

Grocery retailing in New Zealand: the shift in power.(Letter: New Zealand)
September 22, 2003... Changes in Consumer Shopping Any discussion of New Zealand grocery retailing needs to be in the context of the characteristics and requirements of the New Zealand consumer, for example (main sources: Statistics New Zealand; ACNielsen and...

Chip and PIN: why retailers have to take control.(European News Analysis)
September 22, 2003... Introduction Most UK retailers are now clear that from January 1st 2005, they will carry the liability for credit and debit card fraud in the UK. Previously, although retailers regularly received chargebacks from their acquirers, the...

European cross-border retailing: today's trends.
September 22, 2003... International retail activity has become the norm rather than the exception, even though the boom in interest and cross-border retail investment only really took off in the 1990s. This amount of retail internationalisation is an outcome of both...

Using POS scanner data in the framework of vertical co-operations: diffusion degree, problem fields and approaches for solutions using the German consumer goods sector as an example.(Viewpoint)
September 22, 2003... Characteristics of Vertical Co-operations between Suppliers and Retailers Interest in vertical cooperation between industrial and trading companies has increased in the USA since the mid-1980s and in Europe since the beginning of the...