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Going forward, Sharon White, the relatively new CEO, expects John Lewis department stores to generate 60% of business from online compared to the pre-coronavirus level of 40%. Retail floor area will shrink but they want to ‘put excess space to good social use’. Warning that retail margins are too thin, the business is looking at expanding its financial services offering and venturing into new ...

The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has made phasing out vehicles and creating a “15-minute city” a key pillar of her offering at the launch of her re-election campaign. The Socialist politician wants to encourage more self-sufficient communities within each arrondissement of the French capital, with grocery shops, parks, cafes, sports facilities, health centres, s...

Daniel Fetner, principal at Corigin Ventures in this episode explains what does it mean to have a founder-market fit, who can claim that they are the perfect founder for a company and what to do if you realise that you don't have a founder-market fit. We also talk about how founders can find the lead investor and what the term "lead investor" mean?

Enertiv 360 Launch: We Transform Building Data into Asset Value. Enertiv creates asset value for commercial real estate portfolios by improving productivity and directly decreasing operating and capital expenses related to maintenance & repairs, utilities, tenant submetering and the indoor environment. We have a unique approach - the Enertiv App is a software-only solution that can be deployed...

The Neo is a four-foot-tall, 1,000-pound robot floor scrubber. The high-tech machine can cruise large commercial buildings on its own, with no human supervision required. Since its introduction in 2016, Neo’s sales have roughly doubled each year, said Faizan Sheikh, the chief executive and a co-founder of