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Made in China?

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Aldi and Lidl

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The German discounters’ successful business model only stretches so far

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FRANKFURT

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Piling it high, selling it cheap

Piling it high, selling it cheap

IN GROCERY, at least, globalisation has met its match. Many of the most illustrious names in the business have had to retreat from disastrous forays abroad. Carrefour of France has quit 19 foreign markets in the past 20 years. Tesco of Britain lost billions on a failed attempt to make it big in America, abandoned in 2013. In 2006 Walmart of the United States, the world’s biggest retailer, gave up on its attempts to conquer Germany and South Korea.
In the past few years the big success story in food retailing has been the international expansion of Aldi and Lidl, two German chains founded in 1946 and 1973 respectively. They are now the world’s biggest “deep-discount” …<div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
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Aldi and Lidl: Tomorrow, not quite the world

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The new nuclear age

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E-commerce in South-East Asia

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The global online-shopping giants may not find it easy to conquer the region

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JAKARTA

TROPICAL rain pounds on the roof of a cavernous warehouse near Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital. Inside, youngsters in orange T-shirts haul around clothes, luggage and electrical goods for Lazada, an e-commerce firm, which has just moved in. The 12,000 square metre space is three times the size of the depot it has vacated, but it already looks full. Three years ago Lazada’s entire stock filled a storeroom the size of a studio flat, recalls Magnus Ekbom, its twenty-something boss in Indonesia.
Internet shopping accounts for less than 1% of all purchases in South-East Asia—a region twice as populous as America, where the proportion is nearly 10%. But surging smartphone use and a broadening middle class mean the market is set to multiply; perhaps fivefold by 2018, reckons Frost &amp; Sullivan, a …<div class="og_rss_groups"></div>
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E-commerce in South-East Asia: Home-field advantage