GABRIEL GROUP

JD.com (Jingdong) is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing and the largest retailer in China by revenue. It even surpasses Alibaba in retail sales and has now officially entered the European market through its own platform, Joybuy. For anyone involved in importing from China or selling online in Europe, JD is a name we can no longer ignore – neither as competition nor as a potential partner.

Who's going to mow your land this year? Finding someone willing to push a mower up a slope for hours is getting harder — and even when you do, the work is physically demanding and comes with real risk. A tractor covers a lot, but not everything: between orchard rows, along a canal, on the steeper parts of your land. That's why more and more large landowners, municipal companies and vineyard operators are switching to remote-controlled tracked mowers. We visited the factory in China where these machines are made and filmed how they actually work.

The conflict in the Middle East has reached a point where it's actively reshaping how goods move from China to Europe. The Red Sea and Suez Canal — the corridor that carries a large share of container traffic between Asia and Europe — are effectively closed.

Ships have been rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope, adding time and cost to every shipment. If you're importing goods from China for the European market, now is the time to plan differently.