Carlos Mendez 
Sleep Number filed for Chapter 11 on June 12 with a $415 million stalking-horse sale to Canada’s Sleep Country. Here is what the deal, the $260m financing, and the wipeout mean for the mattress market.
Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has launched a EUR 38-per-share cash takeover offer for Hugo Boss. The unsolicited bid values the stock it does not own at about USD 2.3 billion.
One instructive small business story: a 4,200-square-foot hardware store turned a how-to YouTube channel into a real revenue line, roughly 18% of sales by year three.
A practical playbook for main street and high street retailers on building window displays that stop walkers, earn entries, and pay for the frontage they occupy.
A 2026 guide to profitable local delivery and curbside for independent retailers: fulfillment math, zone design, fees, and courier choices for community commerce.
Most local retailers confuse audience size with revenue. Community commerce closes that gap by converting a neighborhood following into measurable, repeatable in-store and online sales with concrete owner-run workflows.
Translation is roughly 15% of localizing a store. Local currency, payment rails, trust signals and returns law decide whether a cross-border market converts.
Your first export order rarely fails because of demand. It fails at customs, in a surprise VAT bill, or in landed-cost math you never ran. Here is the tax and duty setup behind a profitable launch.
A concrete 2026 playbook for Western brands launching on Shopee in Southeast Asia: which market to enter first, real fee math, fulfillment via SLS, ads and local-entity rules.
Selling used and refurbished goods on eBay versus Amazon comes down to fees, condition rules, and buyer protection. Here is how the two channels differ in 2026.