All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 24
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ArticleU.S. delays TikTok ban to Sept. 27 as Trump gives blessing to deal with Oracle, Walmart
The U.S. Department of Commerce said that it has delayed until Sept. 27 the prohibition of the Chinese mobile application TikTok. The department had previously announced that the ban would start today. The decision comes after U.S. President Donald Trump said he had given his “blessing” to a proposed deal ...
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U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok from Sept. 20
The U.S. Department of Commerce said that from Sept. 20 the Chinese mobile applications WeChat and TikTok will be prohibited in the U.S. to safeguard national security. “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has demonstrated the means and motives to use these apps to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and ...
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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 shopping center in ...
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Amazon hires extra 100,000 people in U.S., Canada
Amazon is hiring an additional 100,000 people in the U.S. and Canada on top of 33,000 corporate and technology jobs announced last week. The roles offer a starting wage of at least $15 per hour, and in select cities the online retailer is offering sign-on bonuses up to $1,000 ...
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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 of ...
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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 Tretorn, Månsson served ...
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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 announced ...
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News briefsWalmart launches Walmart+ membership program
Walmart is launching the membership program Walmart+, its much anticipated response to Amazon Prime. Membership will be available to all U.S. customers on Sept. 15. It will cost $98 a year or $12.95 a month and includes a 15-day free trial period. Members will receive unlimited free delivery from stores, ...
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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 a ...
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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 to offer their products to online marketplaces ...
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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 advertising capabilities has been ...
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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. In 2017, OR ...
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News briefsFinn Comfort and Kaufregional bring businesses and customers together
Finn Comfort, the German comfort shoe manufacturer, has joined the Kaufregional e-commerce platform in a bid to boost its visibility in the local market and gain access to an additional sales channel as the coronavirus crisis drags on. Finn Comfort was established 75 years ago in the small town of ...
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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 raised all the ...
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Asos to post higher-than-expected FY results thanks to demand, lower returns
The British online fashion retailer Asos said that its sales and profits for the full year ending in August are expected to be significantly ahead of market expectations, thanks to stronger-than-anticipated underlying demand and lower-than-forecast returns. Revenue growth is expected to reach 17-19 percent, with pretax profit in the region ...
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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 in ...
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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 groups have agreed on a joint ...
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Golden Goose opens a store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion
The Italian luxury sneaker brand Golden Goose has opened a flagship store on Tmall Luxury Pavilion, the B2C marketplace of the Chinese group Alibaba. The store will carry some of the brand’s most iconic products such as the sneakers Superstar, Stardan, Pure and Yeah, along with a new collection of ...
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Russian customs wants to check parcels for counterfeit shoes
The Russian Federal Customs Service is seeking to obtain authorization from the government to inspect parcels entering the country for the presence of counterfeit products purchased through foreign online stores, according to Sergey Shklyaev, director of the trade restrictions department of the Customs Service. Shoes and clothes are the biggest ...
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News briefsHurley family takes over Simple
Kandui Holdings, founded by the Hurley family, has acquired the assets and intellectual property of the American brand Simple from KTSimple. Financial details were not disclosed. The acquisition is being carried through Simple Shoes, that will continue all ongoing operations with plans to enhance and evolve the Simple brand over ...
