The key to survival for brick and mortar retail stores

Published: 9 October 2019

Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of McGill University’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management, explains why some brick and mortar retailers survive while others collapse as e-commerce rises....

A closer look at the Ste-Catherine Street overhaul

Published: 21 May 2019

Charles de Brabant, Executive Director of the Bensadoun School of Retail Management, comments on the ebbs and flows of Ste-Catherine Street – widely regarded as the heart of retail in Montreal....

The future of retail: Not as grim as you might think

Published: 14 June 2018

If the media tends to focus on major store closures as a sign of a retail industry in turbulence, an article in Les Affaires sheds light on some of retail’s success stories, such as Simons....

Canada Goose sets up shop in China

Published: 1 June 2018

Canada Goose, the upscale outerwear brand, announced that it will open two locations this fall in China: a Hong Kong flagship outlet in October, followed by a store in Beijing the following month....

Montreal merchants are not alone

Published: 9 April 2018

Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), has been selected to be a part of a committee organized to devise a commercial development plan for Montreal and...

Retail is not on its last breath, but alive and well

Published: 27 February 2018

Despite popular misconceptions that the retail industry is in cataclysmic decline, Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, Charles De Brabant (BCom'83), sheds light on why this could...

Bensadoun School of Retail Management highlighted among Quebec’s most innovative business programming

Published: 7 November 2017

As business schools adapt their programs to address the grand challenges of our time, McGill’s Bensadoun School of Retail Management stands out as an initiative that will respond to the needs of a...

Taking Ste-Catherine Street into the modern age

Published: 15 January 2018

Montreal’s historic strip, Ste-Catherine Street, is undergoing four years of roadwork....

The end of retail as we know it? Not so fast

Published: 20 October 2017

Charles de Brabant (BCom'83), Executive Director of the Bensadoun Retail Initiative, says that popular perceptions of a declining retail industry are misleading; the reality is actually far more...

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