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  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Alibaba
    Alibaba warns of Covid hit even after beating sales expectations

    Chinese ecommerce group achieves 9% revenue growth but is weighed down by Beijing’s pandemic restrictions

  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    THG PLC
    THG shares jump 25% but fail to hit price of rejected bid

    Bidders circling online beauty retailer have no history of buying large companies

  • Saturday, 14 May, 2022
    News in-depth
    Boohoo and Asos bullish despite pandemic threat to fast fashion

    Online retailers retain lofty growth ambitions even as costs surge

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Shopify
    Shopify shares fall as earnings underwhelm

    Lossmaking ecommerce group the latest to suffer from slowdown in pandemic-fuelled boom

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    LexEtsy Inc
    Etsy: ecommerce platform takes on the fee fighters Premium content

    Sellers should prepare for even higher charges

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Just Eat Takeaway.com executive investigated over ‘personal misconduct’ claim

    Shares in online food delivery group plunge 7% after it reveals complaint against chief operating officer

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Alibaba
    Alibaba targets bargain-hunting shoppers to boost slowing sales growth

    Chinese ecommerce group’s Taobao Deals app is aimed at the estimated 930mn consumers in smaller and less affluent cities

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    UK retail industry
    New UK retail lobby group ‘open to’ online sales levy

    Call for tax to fund business rates cut highlights divisions over physical and internet stores

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Amazon growth warning hits shares of warehouse owners

    UK-listed operators Segro, Tritax Big Box and New York-listed Prologis suffer sharp falls

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Amazon.com
    Amazon earnings weighed down by falling sales and high costs

    Company says push to expand during pandemic left it ‘overstaffed’ and predicts more sluggish growth

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Special ReportThe Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies
    MercadoLibre aims to ‘democratise finance’ with payments app

    MercadoPago has become one of the most lucrative parts of the Latin American ecommerce giant’s business

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    Automobiles
    Volvo takes stake in Carwow to help boost digital sales

    Carmaker aims for half of sales to be online by 2025

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    THG PLC
    THG says it received ‘unacceptable’ proposals for company

    UK ecommerce group warns rising costs will curb profit growth this year

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    Just Eat Takeaway
    Just Eat Takeaway explores Grubhub sale

    Food delivery giant cedes to months of investor pressure over $7.3bn deal

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    LexAmazon.com
    Amazon: physical stores are the messy lab that may yield disruption Premium content

    Signals are that the tech titan will stay in this form of retailing for the long haul

  • Saturday, 16 April, 2022
    Lauren Indvik
    Is your wardrobe an untapped asset?

    Fashion brands are launching second-hand marketplaces, making it easier for customers to buy and sell past-season merchandise

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    Amazon.com
    Amazon hits US sellers with surcharge to offset inflation and fuel costs

    Ecommerce giant said it is addressing ‘further challenges’ it faces from higher prices

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    LexJD.com
    JD.com/Richard Liu: another tech boss bites the dust Premium content

    Beijing’s crackdown on the tech sector means wealthy, powerful bosses are under critical scrutiny

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    JD.com
    JD.com founder Richard Liu steps down in latest Chinese tech chief exit

    Beijing’s campaign to rein in Big Tech has spurred a series of high-profile resignations

  • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
    Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
    ‘I knew the future was ecommerce’: Great Deals CEO on topping FT ranking

    Philippine ecommerce enabler has regional expansion in its sights

  • Wednesday, 6 April, 2022
    Amazon.com
    SEC rules against Amazon in dispute with investors over tax transparency

    US regulator decides issue of disclosure can be put to shareholder vote after institutional pressure

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    Sarah O'Connor
    Union victory for Amazon warehouse could change US labour movement

    Grassroots Staten Island win shows the power of organising from the bottom up

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Amazon.com
    Amazon workers in Staten Island vote to form first US union

    Online retailer had managed to fend off previous attempts by American workers to organise

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    LexPan Kwan Yuk
    The Lex Newsletter: FedEx reboot will fail if cuts worsen staff outages Premium content

    Low pay rates have contributed to labour instability as company struggles to hire and retain workers

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    LexInstacart Inc
    Instacart: slashed valuation is not just the market’s fault Premium content

    The delivery service is keen to diversify revenue as it competes against well-financed competitors

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