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Investors eye rapid delivery business

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Soaring demand for fast and convenient at-home delivery amid the COVID-19 pandemic has made a lasting impact on the consumer market. E-commerce quickly became essential amid societal lockdowns across the globe, with customers...more

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Latest Retailer Tech Trends Go Beyond Cookies to Include The Fast-Growing Metaverse - Published by Kattison Avenue/Katten Kattwalk...

Throughout the pandemic, retailers had to act swiftly to adapt to stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines. This meant making the most of the technologies available and experimenting with new technologies — both...more

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EDPB Issues New Guidance on Storing Credit Card Data for Future Purchases

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Online retailers storing credit card data for the sole purpose of facilitating further purchases will likely need to obtain consumer consent. Online shopping has boomed in recent years. In 2020, the European statistics...more

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Do retailers drop more cookies on Americans or Europeans?

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Americans, but only slightly. United States companies consider several strategies for mitigating the risk that a supervisory authority might determine that they are subject to the GDPR (or the ePrivacy Directive)....more

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What percentage of United States retailers have decided to block European visitors from reaching their websites?

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25% There are two situations in which the GDPR purports to apply extraterritorially to companies that have no contact to the European Union. The first situation, described in Article 3(2)(a) of the GDPR, occurs when a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.18.2019 | Top Story: Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot Boards Agree to $50 Billion Merger

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Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more

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Opportunity to Help Shape the Key Rules that Affect How You Sell Your Products in Europe

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The European Commission ("Commission") has invited manufacturers and other interested market participants to provide their input on the laws that govern how products are sold in Europe, in particular the sorts of restrictions...more

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Trending topics in retail and fashion

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The retail and fashion industries may be transforming at a rapid pace, but the Hogan Lovells Retail and Fashion Group will make sure you are on-trend. ...more

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Alert: European Commission Fines Consumer Electronics Manufacturers €111 Million for Online Pricing Restrictions

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On 24 July 2018, the European Commission announced that it had fined four consumer electronics manufacturers – Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer – a total of €111 million (c.$126 million) for imposing fixed or...more

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Vertical Agreements in the Online Sales of Goods

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The growth of e-commerce and the resulting increase in price transparency and price competition have a significant impact on companies’ distribution strategies and consumer behavior. While the emergence of e-commerce has the...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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A look at the some of the losers—cities, mostly—in Amazon’s recent move to start collecting sales taxes in more states. The problem? While Amazon now collects sales taxes in every state that has one, it’s collection deals...more

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Dutch Court Affirms Ban on Nonauthorized Online Resellers

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The Ruling: On October 4, 2017, the Amsterdam District Court upheld Nike's ban on authorized distributors selling Nike products on the online platforms of unauthorized resellers. The Result: Under this Dutch ruling, a...more

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EU Retail News - March 2017

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From April 2017, the following legal changes are coming into effect. Make sure your business is prepared! Part of this publication originally published by Drapers - March, 2017...more

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Combative French Plaintiff Obtains Extended Jurisdiction Over Cross-border Online Marketplace Sales

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On 21 December 2016, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down an interesting interpretation of jurisdictional issues in cross-border competition law and online sales. The ECJ ruled that courts of a Member State have...more

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January EU Retail News

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Brands Expanding Internationally Should Embrace Competition-Conscious Luxury Goods Licences - The licensing of luxury goods in Europe, where a supplier sells goods to a certain approved distributor to sell on its...more

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EU Retail News – October 2016

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Can retailers find the perfect mix? Retailers are increasingly under pressure to evaluate their business models and, in particular, the mix of their in-store, online and mobile offerings. Just as there are few pure-play...more

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A right in Germany to sell through online marketplaces?

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On 18 July 2016, Germany moved another step closer to enshrining a right for distributors in selective distribution systems to sell over online marketplaces. This is not sudden move by the German courts, in fact we have...more

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