Carlos Mendez 
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.
Section 321 de minimis no longer covers most low-value parcels. Here is exactly what changes for retail importers: the entry types you now file, the duty math, the broker and bond costs, and a sequence to rebuild landed-cost pricing before margin disappears.