On June 23, the UK voted by a 52% majority to leave the European Union on a voter turnout of 72.2%, the highest turnout in a UK national vote since 1992. In a flash report, we summarized the immediate impacts… Continue Reading
This past week, the Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended London Technology Week, an event supported by the Mayor of London. In this third year of the gathering, more than 250 events took place around London throughout the week.… Continue Reading
This week, the Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony of New Lab, a multidisciplinary design, prototyping and advanced manufacturing hub located in the recently renovated Building 128 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The event was attended… Continue Reading
Xiaomi’s smart bike, the QiCycle R1 (Photo: iF World Design Guide) The warm days of the beginning of summer are the perfect time of year for a bike ride. For riders who could use a little extra pedal power — especially… Continue Reading
The Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended the New York Fashion Tech Lab Demo Day 2016 event on Wednesday, June 8. Founded in 2014, the New York Fashion Tech Lab is a community-driven, relationship-building collaboration and business development platform.… Continue Reading
In New York this week, the Fung Global Retail & Technology team hosted an event called Breakfast with the Disruptors: Women-Led Beauty & Fashion Startups including GoPure Beauty, a very young skincare products company, which attracted a standing-room-only crowd of… Continue Reading
The Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended The Future of Retail: It Ain’t What It Used To Be, a semi-annual half day conference hosted by the Retail Marketing Society in partnership with FIT Professional Studies in New York on… Continue Reading
The Fung Global Retail & Technology Team attended MakeUp in Paris 2016 on June 9 and 10 at the Carrousel du Louvre. The event is a showcase for the beauty industry in Europe, and it included a conference program on… Continue Reading
The Fung Global Retail & Technology team attended the first day of the Women in STEM Summit, hosted by global business media firm Innovation Enterprise on Wednesday, June 8, in San Francisco, California. Under the theme “Inspire, Educate, Innovate,” the… Continue Reading
Last week, we attended the Global E-Commerce Summit 2016, convened by the E-Commerce Europe trade organization, in Barcelona on May 31 and June 1. Retailers from across Europe and beyond were among the attendees, and we heard from representatives of… Continue Reading