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Holiday shopping trends, including an increase in mobile shopping and selling through social media, gave businesses a preview of sales in 2025. — Getty Images/LEREXIS Why it matters:
The three major Retail M&A waves took place in 2000, 2007 and lately in 2017. However the all-time high in terms of number of deals was in 2016 with more than 2,700 deals. In terms of added value 2007 set the record with the US$225 billion. [85] Here is a list of the top ten largest deals (ranked by volume) in the Retail Industry: [citation needed]
Retailers on average saw a 26.5% increase in Organized Retail Crime in 2021, according the National Retail's Federation most recent survey. One contributor to the rise in retail crime has been the ...
Companies are ordered by net income from retail operations in millions of US Dollars in FY 2020. [1] Carrefour S.A. was excluded from 2020's report at the company’s request. The list does not include Wakefern Food Corporation with revenue of US$16.3 billion in 2017. [2]
The National Retail Federation releases an annual retail sales forecast each spring. NRF forecasted that 2024 retail sales would be between 2.5% and 3.5% to between $5.23 trillion and $5.28 trillion. [41] The 2024 sales forecast compares with 3.6% annual sales growth of $5.1 trillion in 2023. [42]
Research published by global retail analyst IHL Group in 2019 suggests that the so-called retail apocalypse narrative was an exaggeration, with "more chains that are expanding their number of stores than closing stores.” [7] That year, retailers in the United States announced 9,302 store closings, a 59% jump from 2018, and the highest number ...
Fast fashion proves successful economically for the retail industry worldwide. The fast-fashion market in 2020 globally produced $25.1 billion. [ 36 ] It was expected to increase at an annual compound growth rate ( CAGR ) of 21.9%, resulting in the global market increase to $31 billion in 2021. [ 36 ]
On March 16, 2020, it was reported that retail sales dropped 20.5% after the pandemic hit the country, a percentage that, according to Business Insider, was unseen since the financial crisis of 2007–2008. [82] Retail sales continued to decrease with a 2.8% decline in May 2020 and 1.8% in June from where they were at the same time in 2019. [83]