6. On the radar change
Brazil Chile Uruguay China
UAE Armenia Turkey Kazakhstan
Kuwait Georgia
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10. In the past five years, US-based Wal-Mart, France-based Carrefour, UK-based Tesco, and
Germany-based Metro Group saw their revenues in developing countries grow 2.5 times
faster than revenues in their home
markets.
11. industry’s focus shifting from mature markets
inability to grow and maintain profit margins Rising competitive pressures
Transformation of alternative sales channels
including “Bricks (stores), Clicks (web), Rings (call
centers), and Knocks (services to the home)”
Blurring of roles between
suppliers and retailers
12. the strategic focus of the entire retail sector is moving towards the emerging economies
of Asia and Central and Eastern Europe, and China and India in particular.
Results
13. In emerging markets, e-commerce is a trend that has really caught up and BRIC (Brazil, Russia,
India and China) shows the strongest growth in e-commerce.
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15. Seismic Shift
By 2020, 43% of the retailers
believe that the mobile will become the most important channel
overtaking stores, PCs, call centers, and
direct sales
18. Retailers believe unknown technology will
be a main driver in changing customer
expectation in future
19. In a study done by Economist In Intelligence Unit, the second most popular choice for the main driver
of changing customer expectations by 2020 is an “unknown technology”.