Retail and e-commerce startups, funding rounds, founder stories, and business strategy.
Three August 2026 deals point to payments M&A splitting into two price regimes: scarcity multiples for routing and orchestration, conventional premiums for processing books. The split is likely to hold through 31 March 2027.
Shein prices its Hong Kong listing at up to HK$49.50 a share, valuing the fast fashion group near USD 27 billion, about 73% below its 2022 private mark. The collapse tracks the end of duty free low-value parcels in the United States and European Union.
Three signals from the past three weeks point to a second control transaction over a Western European parcel or out-of-home delivery network before the end of Q1 2027. The InPost clearance clock, the Prologis and SEGRO merger, and PostNL’s margin guidance all describe the same repricing.
Mastercard’s BVNK close took a neutral vendor off the board, and the signals point to a merchant acquirer or processor buying stablecoin infrastructure before the end of Q1 2027. Three data points from the last four weeks explain why the window is open now.
A comparison of the ways retail brands fund stock, with the real cost of capital and the situation each option actually suits.
One founder’s account of an aggregator exit that looked like a win, what happened to the brand afterwards and why they bought it back.
The preparation that decides how smoothly a retail sale goes starts a year early. Here is what to fix while there is still time.
Blended margin hides losing channels. This is how to build a contribution margin report per channel that survives scrutiny.
A look at which retail technology categories are attracting capital in the current AI cycle, and which ones investors have quietly cooled on.
McCormick has set out the operating model, leadership, and London listing for the company it will form by combining with Unilever Foods in a roughly $44.8 billion deal. Here is how the four-division structure reshapes the balance of power with grocers and online platforms.