According to Prof.Dr.B.Hallier the exhibition EuroShop, founded in Germany in 1966 and today's world-leader of shopfitting/retail technology/POS-marketing, is a permanent innovation driver of retail but also in a change itself by innovation, segmentation and globalization.

EuroCIS, founded in Germany in 1997 as an annual congress in-between the tri-annual EuroShop in response to the speed of technology innovations is meanwhile Europe's number one retail technology exhibition; the exhibition space of C star in Shanghai/China can be compared with the size of EuroCIS; and the in-store-asia/Mumbai is the largest retail trade fair on the Indian Sub-Continent.
 

According to market estimates the organized retail in India will grow by 76 percent uptill 2021. Within Euromonitor International's Top 100 Retailers Asia: Walmart is leading India's ranking by 14,5 billion US $ turnover with Amazon (9,8) second placed, the Future Group (3,9), the Reliance Group (3.7) and the Tata Group (2,9). Just at the moment Amazon shows interest to buy about 10 percent of the shares of the Future Group.

For many years Prof.Dr.B.Hallier supported the Indian Retail Forum in Mumbai, meeting his friends Kishore Biyani and Nagesh (Link). For long years of advice Prof.Dr.Hallier got the Retail Leadership Award from the Asia-Africa-GCC Congress. Nowadays Mumbai's exhibition in-store-asia is connected with the EuroShop network.
 

In 2018 the World Congress of Entrepreneurs signed the "Zagreb-Declaration" in Croatia as a call to encourage the civil society to participate actively in a social market economy. The meeting was backed by business, universities and administrations from the local, regional and national levels of the area of former Yugoslavia plus Austria and Germany.

This initiative will be carried on from October 16th-18th, 2019 at Skopje/Northern Macedonia. "The development and transfer of entrepreneurial skills is a challenge for applied sciences in areas of former socialism" Prof.Dr. B.Hallier stated "The wealth of the nations is the accumulation of permanent/ongoing innovations: this can be optimized by cooperation between governments/laws, sciences and businesses" (more info: sinisha.zaric@gmail.com).
 

Globalization needs Standardisation: also in the field of barcodes. While in the mid 70ies the printed barcode was the innovation driver for the cash-zone and between retail and industry, in the second step Chips increased the data-volume and reading distance. The third generation are now QR or two dimensional Codes being used both instore- and for mobile shopping while connecting both: brick-and-stone and the digital world. QR enables the Internet of Things.

The International Two-dimensional Code Industry will organize its second Development Summit with the 2019 topic "TheCode' Connected World with Intelligence and Innovation" in Foshan, Guangzhou Province/China. Prof.Dr.B.Hallier will be guest of the Conference and speak about technology drivers of retail.
 

Euromonitor International is a British company for global market intelligence with offices around the world. On invitation of its new Duesseldorf office/Germany Prof.Dr.B.Hallier presented his latest research about trade-cycles in the past and future.

Both sides know each other for many years cooperating with the Singapore magazine Retail Asia (Steven Goh/Andrew Yeo) in the presentation of the Top 500 retailers Asia Pacific. Prof.Hallier served for more than a decade in the Award Jury - for which Michelle Grant (Euromonitor) prepared the research data. Both will meet at APREC in September in Chonging / China again.