DTC & E-Commerce – Page 10
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Shoepassion launches ID solution to buy shoes
The Shoepassion group, a multichannel shoe retailer based in Berlin that owns the Heinrich Dinkelacker brand of traditional high-end men’s shoes, has launched an identity management (ID) solution for the sale of footwear. The system was tested during the summer in a pop-up store at the Bikini ...
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Santoni sees 2020 sales down by 20-30%
Santoni expects 2020 sales to drop by 20-30 percent from the €83 million posted in 2019 due the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Italian brand of high-end shoes anticipates to resume growing in 2021 but the target of reaching an annual turnover of €100 million within a couple ...
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Tretorn reinforces its management team in its move to accelerate DTC shift
Tretorn , the Swedish footwear and outerwear brand, continues to reinforce its management team as it seeks to overhaul its business model and develop direct-to-consumer channels. In the summer of 2019, the company, which was established in 1891, appointed Magnus Månsson as its new chief executive. Before joining ...
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ArticleAmazon: The Janus-faced company
The current Covid-19 crisis has accelerated Amazon ’s consumer goods business exponentially. The Silicon Valley giant doubled its profits in the second quarter of this year and increased its turnover to nearly $89 billion. The share value has also nearly doubled since the middle of March. On Sept. 1, Amazon ...
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ArticlePayPal to launch buy now, pay later solution in Q4
PayPal , the American online payment provider, announced that it will launch early in the fourth quarter “Pay in 4”, a short-term installment payment scheme for customers in the U.S. The service will permit merchants to be paid upfront while customers can pay for purchases between $30 and $600 over ...
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ArticleANWR expands sales channels by partnering with Gaxsys
ANWR , the German purchasing association, has created an interface to Gaxsys ’ order fulfilment system, providing its affililiates with another important sales channel. ANWR’s members can sell via the association’s own platforms shoes.de , Sport2000 and Bagmondo . But, ANWR’s software solution Qualibet also enables them ...
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ArticleWalmart eyes TikTok’s U.S. business as it reviews it e-commerce business
The U.S. retailer Walmart is interested in bidding jointly with the software group Microsoft for the U.S. business of the Chinese videosharing app TikTok as it continues to review its e-commerce activity. In a statement, Walmart noted that that the way TikTok has integrated e-commerce and ...
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ArticleObuv Rossii parent launches capital hike to finance its development
OR PJSC , the parent company of the Russian footwear group Obuv Rossii , is planning to place additional shares worth 2.8 billion rubles (€31.7m-$37.4m) to finance the group’s development. The company is offering 28,264,000 new ordinary shares, which corresponds to 24 percent of the previously placed ordinary shares. ...
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ArticleACBC raises €2.3 million in capital hike
ACBC , a Milan-based start-up company that is offering a modular footwear technology, completed a €2.3 million capital increase in which a pool of investors took part. The online investing platform Doorway put nearly €1 million into the company through the capital injection. ACBC said that it has ...
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Wildberries doubled H1 sales amid the Covid-19 pandemic
In the first half of 2020, the Russian online retailer Wildberries boosted turnover by 110 percent year-on-year to 178.7 billion rubles (€2.05bn-$2.42bn). In the second quarter alone, sales rose a record-breaking 123 percent to RUB 103.4 billion (€1.18bn-$1.4bn). In volume, sales tripled during the second quarter, when offline sales ...
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German shoe industry joins forces to launch data sharing platform
Germany’s shoe industry has joined a wide-ranging alliance to set up a data exchange and clearing platform for the sector. The footwear buying groups ANWR and Sabu , the shoe and leather goods industry association HDS/L and the merchandise management providers ETOS and Brandt Retail ...
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ArticleHotter Shoes to close 46 stores as CVA approved by creditors
UK footwear chain Hotter Shoes will press ahead with plans to close 46 stores after creditors approved a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) to restructure the firm during the coronavirus pandemic. The CVA was approved by 99.5 percent of voting creditors, including an “overwhelming majority of landlords”, passing the ...
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ArticleVögele Shoes goes multichannel, focuses on digitalization
Swiss footwear retailer Vögele Shoes is revising its strategy and organization in a bid to reposition itself as an omnichannel retailer and cater to its customers’ needs through a data-driven approach and a wide range of digital touchpoints. During the Covid-19 related lockdown, Karl Vögele AG , which ...
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Obuv Rossii enter logistics partnership with the Russian state mail operator
Obuv Rossii , a leading Russian footwear retailer, has appointed the country’s state-owned mail operator Russian Post its main logistics partner. The postal operator will be handling the delivery of orders from Obuv Rossii’s central warehouse to customers in Siberia. Russian Post has the largest network in Russia, ...
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Zalando significantly improves its full-year guidance after Covid-19 outbreak
Zalando expects full-year gross merchandise volume (GMV) to rise by 20-25 percent and revenues by 15-20 percent, with adjusted Ebit reaching €250-300 million, as the German online fashion retailer benefited from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The previous guidance, published on May 6 in an attempt to estimate ...
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ArticleFootwear fails to keep pace with upswing in online sales in Germany
Despite enjoying a recovery, online sales of footwear lagged other product categories in Germany during the second quarter. As the country eased lockdowns imposed in a bid to counter the coronavirus pandemic, online sales reported a higher-than-average increase in the second quarter, swinging back to growth after a slump ...
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ArticleWortmann to hold another home-made digital event for its brands
The Wortmann Group is embracing the opportunities offered by internet to hold its own digital trade shows. But, it has also decided to increase its digital presence by taking part for the first time in an online trade show for the textile industry.
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ArticleMicam Americas September edition cancelled
The British trade fair organizer Informa Markets has cancelled the fashion trade show Magic , which includes the footwear show Micam Americas , scheduled to run from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at the Las Vegas Convention Center due to health, safety and travel concerns related to the Covid-19 pandemic. ...
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ArticleCCC online sales nearly match physical store sales in Q2
In the second quarter, CCC , the international Polish-based shoe manufacturer and retailer, saw its online sales nearly match those posted by its physical stores due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns. Nevertheless, the surge of the e-commerce business did not fully offset the slump ...
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ArticleHow are retailers managing excess stock in Covid-19 times?
Managing stock has always been a tricky part of any business. But it becomes even more so when demand evaporates overnight as occurred with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns worldwide, prompting manufacturers and retailers to be nimble and explore various different solutions.
