Amazon makes a puzzling pledge to safety

Walmart is retreating in the Attempt to Decode Japan’s retail Marketplace

Under the arrangement, private equity finance KKR is now the vast majority owner with a 65 percent stake, while Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten accepts 20 percent, the firms said in an announcement Monday. Walmart will maintain a 15 percent minority interest. Rakuten and KKR will want to shore up Seiyu’s electronic operations because demand for […]

Happy New Year! Nothing is going to change

It’s tempting and fun to make predictions for a new year, particularly when they’re optimistic. All the things are seeds now. What will they grow into? It’s also fun to read predictions because they so often turn out to be wildly wrong.  That said, this is a tough year for prognosticators. The challenges we face […]

Live events industry lost $30 billion due to pandemic

Due to the global coronavirus pandemic, concert trade publication Pollstar puts the total lost revenue for the live events industry in 2020 at more than $30 billion. Pollstar on Friday released its year-end report, explaining that the live events industry should have hit a record-setting $12.2 billion this year, but instead it incurred $9.7 billion in […]