/newsroom/taxonomy/term/9327/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-hudsons-bay-resurrect-discount-retail-chain-zellers-340845 <p>Discount department store Zellers hopes to make a comeback next year, a decade after the Canadian chain shuttered most of its locations. Hudson's Bay Co. says Zellers will debut a new e-commerce website and expand its brick-and-mortar footprint within select Hudson's Bay department stores across the country in early 2023. The company says the relaunched Zellers will offer "a digital-first shopping journey that taps into the nostalgia of the brand." (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hbc-resurrects-zellers-1.6553473" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)</p> Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:50:44 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288311 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/societe-des-alcools-du-quebec-saq-bensadoun-school-join-forces-338374 <p>Consumer behaviour has changed dramatically during the pandemic. Public health restrictions have played a major role, but a trend toward e-commerce and omni-channel retail was already underway. It has only accelerated.</p> <p>“Companies now need to show a lot of creativity and resilience. External factors are having a huge impact on operations,” says Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management at ƻ����Ժ. “Consumer behaviour changes, technology changes, and now supply chain disruptions are causing inflationary pressures.</p> Sat, 12 Mar 2022 19:14:10 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 286290 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-university-receives-5-million-funding-quebec-government-bolster-retail-sector-330212 <p>ƻ����Ժ’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management will receive $5 million in funding to drive retail innovation and research, and support the province’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).</p> Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:40:09 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 257993 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-couche-tards-retail-lab-campus-gives-peek-tech-trials-327749 <p>Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and ƻ����Ժ are opening a retail lab in Montreal that will let consumers get a taste for technologies that may transform retail in the in the current and post-COVID-19 pandemic world. It will give ƻ����Ժ faculty and students a chance to do research and testing in a real retail environment. (<a href="https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/couche-tard-s-retail-lab-on-campus-gives-peek-at-tech-trials-1.1549227" target="_blank">BNN Bloomberg</a>)</p> <p>Here is an expert from ƻ����Ժ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:15:08 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256154 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-university-and-alimentation-couche-tard-launch-unique-laboratory-store-propel-retail-industry-327714 <p>ƻ����Ժ and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announce their partnership in the launch of a <a href="/bensadoun-school/ril">retail innovation lab</a> at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management—a live testing ground for innovative and frictionless technologies that address the retail sector’s challenges of the future.</p> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:29:03 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 256108 at /newsroom /newsroom/charles-de-brabant Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:39:09 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 253637 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-black-friday-and-holiday-shopping-during-covid-19-pandemic-326430 <p>In normal times, the holiday shopping season is when retailers and other businesses can make the money they need to survive leaner months. But with lockdowns being implemented in parts of the country, and rising COVID-19 infections, bringing those customers into the store is difficult if not impossible. (<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/shopping-in-the-time-of-covid-19-business-fears-the-second-hand-trend-and-how-colours-influence-what-we-buy-1.5808862" target="_blank">CBC News</a>)</p> Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:43:43 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 250515 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/next-level-training-retail-leaders-future-325262 <p>Calling retail leaders of the future: ƻ����Ժ’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management is launching a unique <a href="/bensadoun-school/programs/master-management-retailing-mmr">Master of Management in Retailing</a> (MMR) designed to equip students with the tools they need to thrive in the rapidly evolving post-COVID retail industry.</p> Fri, 09 Oct 2020 16:59:47 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 242629 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-mec-be-acquired-private-us-investment-firm-324655 <p>Tens of thousands of people have signed on to a petition hoping to stop the sale of Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) to a private U.S. firm. The sale was announced Monday September 14 and will see Los Angeles-based private investment firm Kingswood Capital Management acquire the business and its assets. As a result, the retailer will no longer operate as a member-owned co-operative. (<a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7339722/petition-save-mountain-equipment-co-op-sale-us-firm/">Global News</a>)</p> <p>Here is an expert from ƻ����Ժ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> Thu, 17 Sep 2020 19:49:47 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 239734 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-why-walmart-changing-its-official-name-283255 <p> Wed, 06 Dec 2017 19:50:58 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 32750 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-university-set-become-world-leader-retail-management-education-thanks-25-million-gift-268079 <div> <div><span>Retail icon and philanthropist Aldo Bensadoun has stepped forward with a visionary gift to his alma mater, ƻ����Ժ, aimed at creating new knowledge and developing leaders for the rapidly changing retail industry. Thanks to a donation of $25 million from the Bensadoun Family Foundation, announced today, ƻ����Ժ will work on developing the </span><strong>Bensadoun School of Retail Management</strong><span>: an inter-disciplinary, state-of-the-art school dedicated to all facets of the retail industry.</span></div> <div> </div> </div> Thu, 11 May 2017 14:59:29 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 28857 at /newsroom