Internationalism:The route to growth

While most expanding UK retailers are still preoccupied with such issues as whether to open their next branch in Nottingham or Northampton or relocate the distribution warehouse from Watford to Warrington, a growing band of multinational operators are more likely to be simultaneously opening almost identical shops in Madrid or Malawi, San Francisco or Sao Paulo. Global retailing is not something that is going to happen in 1992 — it is here, now, and can present one of the greatest challenges to successful UK chains. A recent Management Horizons conference put the spotlight on internationalism.