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#UseYourVote #EUelections2024

What a fantastic team to work with! Thanks for your support, energy and commitment to make our sector’s voice stronger ☺️ #StrongerTogether #retail #wholesale #EuroCommerce

'The flames of bonfires lit up the night in the Baltic states.

A thousand fireworks coloured the sea around Malta and Cyprus, and the lakes of Slovenia.

And the Ode to Joy resonated in the cities of Central and Eastern Europe.

It wasn’t just the birth of a larger Union, it was…

In January 2024, over 1000 EU business owners identified #regulation costs as a key barrier in the #singlemarket , leading to delays and competitive challenges.

Explore our recommendations for a balanced regulatory framework & burden reduction:bit.ly/ECH_LetterRegu…
#Chambers4EU

The voice of retail in the Employers Group of the EESC

📢Interview with our Director General Christel Delberghe about Europe's need to concentrate on #competitiveness again in Lebensmittel Zeitung by Hanno Bender
👉lebensmittelzeitung.net/news/p/177261 (in DE; paywall)
#eurocommerce #manifesto #SingleMarket #Singlemarket4all

It's the moment of truth for late payments, as POLITICOEurope Fair Play put it.

Today European Parliament votes on #LatePayments . With Eurochambres & EuroCommerce, we call on MEPs to maintain contractual freedom in all business-to-business relations, as a key element of the

Ahead of today's #LatePayment Regulation vote, Eurochambres, BUSINESSEUROPE, and EuroCommerce urge European Parliament to respect Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU 2024's consensus on contractual freedom. Strict caps on payment terms are not the solution.

Read our joint statement:bit.ly/ECH_JointState…

Many thanks to EuroCommerce Board and General Assembly as well as the team and our outstanding leader Christel Delberghe.
Also grateful to my company GrupoIFA Team and Board for their support.
#retail #wholesale #employment #competitiveness

Consumer trust is essential to enable retail to deliver on consumers’ expectations of the digital transformation and green transition, according to EuroCommerce, the European association representing retailers and wholesalers.
esmmagazine.com/retail/consume…

Ouverture passionnante du World Retail Congress # WRC2024 à Paris, par Alexandre Alexandre Bompard , Pdt et CEO de Carrefour et Pdt Fédération du Commerce et de la Distribution. L’occasion notamment de revenir sur les grandes transformations en cours du retail : digital, inflation, changement climatique, IA…

greater emphasis on implementation should now be a priority!
#competitiveness #sustainabilitytransition #CircularEconomy

The 8 trends of our #StateOfGrocery Retail report 2024 include:
🖱️Online: liberation from offline
📰 #Retailmedia
💻Conversational commerce
🧍‍♀️Talent: making retail a career again
eurocommerce.eu/the-state-of-g…

The 8 trends of our #StateOfGrocery Retail report 2024 include:
💶Cost and margin pressure
🛒Return of polarization
🧁Food to go: a wrestling match for share of stomach
🌍 #Sustainability

📓The State of Grocery Retail 2024: Europe – Signs of hope, launched by McKinsey & Company & EuroCommerce, identifies 8 key trends shaping the grocery industry in the coming years👇 eurocommerce.eu/the-state-of-g… #StateOfGrocery #retail

EuroCommerce creates the #STAR group -> Sustainable Textiles & Apparel Retailers and Wholesalers Group, in support of a resilient, sustainable and competitive textile retail & wholesale sector. Discover a few first best practices: eurocommerce.eu/sustainable-te… #SustainableTextiles

Our expert Leena Whittaker explains what it is about👉youtube.com/watch?v=teUTpS…
Kerstin Jorna, #KristinSchreiber , #GiacomoMattino ', Zawistowska Joanna, Christel Delberghe

🌟The #RetailTransitionPathway is here to lead the charge towards a more #sustainable , #digitalised & resilient future. This initiative brings together industry players, policymakers & communities for impactful change. See below for more information 👇

With 3 other organisations, we address #VATrelief for #donations . Extra VAT discourages donations and goes against EU's sustainability goals. We are asking the EU Commission to encourage Member States to leverage VAT neutralisation options.
Learn more:
eurocommerce.eu/2024/03/joint-…

EU ministers gather today in a #Competitiveness Council to discuss the Commission’s proposal on combating #LatePayments . EU ministers must ensure the proposal tackles the problems instead of creating them.
👉 lnkd.in/e5nMYyy5 #FlexNotFixed