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For many retail leaders, identifying promising growth markets outside of core ones like Europe, the US, Japan, and others is a key component of a global growth strategy. Emerging markets can offer att …

The World Retail Congress confirms 20 CEOs and senior global retail experts as members of its Advisory Board for 2026, helping to deliver an unrivalled high-level forum for the retail sector. The Advi …

A key feature of the World Retail Congress Retail Executive Accelerator Programme is our speed mentoring sessions, designed to give participants personal access to some of the world's foremost retail …

This essential article pulls together what NRF 2026 revealed across the Retail Technology dispatches and what the KPMG Retail Think Tank is flagging, into five trends retailers should keep front-of-mi …

Ian McGarrigle, Chairman, World Retail Congress shares his views on the US consumer and the retailing mood following NRF 2026.

Gaurav Pant, Co-Founder and Chief Insights Officer at Incisiv gives his analysis on this year’s AI-dominated NRF and what retail executives should really be thinking about. 

Veteran retail technology expert, Jon Stine, shares his reflections on what NRF’s crowded expo floors told us about how AI is being deployed and how it is remodeling retailing.  

There are many reasons why retailers converge on New York for NRF every January. And one of them is to see as many stores as possible around the City – still one of the world’s retail capitals. We ask …

What happened at NRF’s Big Show in New York this week suggests retail may be entering not just a new chapter — but a new world. From agentic AI to Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol, from Walmart’s …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a force in the retail industry for nearly half a century.  While there is much data to show the widespread adoption, there is just as much that indicates the disa …