All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 19
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ArticleNew Corona restrictions in Germany; Denmark extends partial lockdown to entire country
In concert with the governments of the individual states of its country, the federal government of Germany has ordered the lockdown of all the brick-and-mortar stores that sell non-essential products, starting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The new restrictions came after a spike in new contaminations from Covid-19. They will last ...
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ArticleOpen Air Group invests in fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan
Open Air Group (OAG), a Stockholm-based group that includes the Chevalier, Tracker, Alaska 1795, Burrel and Valio brands and e-retailers Widforss.se, Widforss.no, Retkitukku.fi and Koiravaruste.fi, is becoming a minority owner of the fast-growing Swedish outdoor brand Garphyttan. Garphyttan develops clothing for outdoor life, work and leisure and has in a ...
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Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021
Alpkit, an outdoor brand from Nottinghamshire, England, has announced plans to open its first Scottish store in Edinburgh early next year. The store, which will be located on Edinburgh’s Causewayside, is reportedly recruiting 12 staff members. In addition to selling gear to hike, climb, camp, run, swim and cycle, the ...
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News briefsLa Sportiva opens brand store in Courmayeur
La Sportiva has opened a monobrand store in Courmayeur, the well-known Alpine resort at the foot of Mont Blanc, in Italy’s northwest. It is the tenth store of the Italian brand, founded in 1928. It will sell all the brand’s product ranges, and not only winter sports items, including products ...
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Pyua opens pop-up store in Munich and extends Sharing is Caring campaign
The sustainable outdoor and snowsports clothing brand Pyua, owned by Spin Capital, a Munich-based investment company, has opened a pop-up store in downtown Munich together with other brands from different business areas, including DIY products, upcycling, handcrafted interiors, art and fashion, under the motto “STOP - for Sustainability & Art.” ...
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News briefsNew Salewa store in Graz
A new Salewa brand store will open in the Austrian city of Graz on Dec. 11. The South Tyrolean mountaineering sports brand, part of the Oberalp Group, is opening its latest flagship store on 85 square meters in the center of the Styrian capital in a historic country house at ...
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EVOC cooperates with Haukland
Two years ago, travel photographer and social influencer Benjamin Jaworskyj founded the photographer’s clothing brand Haukland with the goal to provide photographers and filmmakers with functional clothing that meets all requirements for functionality and flexibility, looks good and is reasonably priced. Together with the German sports brand EVOC, an exclusive ...
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Strong online sales on Black Friday in the U.K.
According to a survey by IMRG, the British online retail industry association, U.K. online retail sales on Black Friday this year grew by 38 percent, with the entire week around Black Friday (Nov. 23-30) showing a 30 percent increase. The survey was based on the daily online sales results of ...
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ArticleShopify reports new records for Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend
After releasing record Black Friday results a few days ago, the Canadian e-commerce software company Shopify has updated its data for the entire Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend. The more than one million Shopify-powered brands around the world have reported sales of $5.1+ billion. From Nov. 27 through Nov. 30, total ...
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Record Cyber Monday in the U.S.
Online shopping in the U.S. reached $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday, according to Adobe Analytics. It was a 15.1 percent increase on the previous year and a daily record for online shopping in the country. Online shopping reached $5.1 billion on Thanksgiving and $9.0 billion on Black Friday, setting new ...
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News briefsVF opens multi-brand store in Milan
The VF Group has opened its first multi-brand store on a surface of 2,000 square meters on three levels in a landmark building near Milan’s cathedral. Named after its address, Orefici11 carries three brands – Timberland, The North Face and Napapijri – with dedicated show windows for each brand and ...
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News briefsShopify reports record global Black Friday sales
Shopify, a global e-commerce software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, announced record-setting Black Friday sales of $2.4 billion from the independent and direct-to-consumer brands on the platform worldwide. The number is based on sales by its more than one million businesses in approximately 175 countries around the world from Nov. ...
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News briefsEOCA Green Friday Fundraiser 2020
The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) and 17 of its members are turning Black Friday green by launching an online fundraiser this year. The funds raised will support conservation projects, including EOCA‘s six most recently selected projects, tackling the issue of plastic pollution both in the environment and at source, ...
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Karpos launches the Mountain Friday
Karpos has announced that it will be donating 10 percent of the proceeds from the sales on its online store from Nov. 23 to Nov. 30 to mountain rescue services in the Italian areas of Belluno, Piedmont and Tuscany. The timing of the initiative, dubbed Mountain Friday, coincides with the ...
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Save The Duck supports Doctors Without Borders in Italy
On the occasion of the upcoming Black Friday on Nov. 27, Save The Duck will be donating 50 percent of the proceeds of that day’s sales on its e-commerce site and the physical stores in Venice (Calle dei Fuseri) and Milan (via Solferino and via Dante), which are open to ...
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News briefsOrtovox skips Black Friday, sends employees outside to clean up instead
As last year, Ortovox will consciously refrain from any discount campaigns and close its online shop from Nov. 27 until Nov. 29 as a sign to support moderate and sustainable buying. At the same time, all company employees receive a free day on Friday, Nov. 27, to go outside and ...
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News briefsBlack Friday: German union calls for strikes at Amazon
Just in time for Black Friday, the labor union Verdi calls on employees in Germany to go on a three-day strike at seven of Amazon’s German distribution centers. This is intended to persuade the online retailer to participate in tariff wages. With the start of the night shift from Wednesday ...
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News briefsKlarna releases pre-Black Friday shopping analyses from the U.S. and Germany
Klarna, the global payments provider and shopping service from Sweden, has released new holiday shopping data that indicates shoppers in the U.S. shifted their share of e-commerce spending towards the leisure, sports & hobby and home & garden categories in the week ahead of Thanksgiving (Nov. 16-22). The leisure, sports ...
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News briefsDeuter’s Green Friday 2020
The German backpack specialist Deuter is donating 10 percent of its brand online store turnover between Nov. 27 and 29 to the ALPs Project of the non-profit sustainability research institute European Research Institute (ERI). ALPs is one of the European Outdoor Conservation Association’s (EOCA) funded projects for 2020. The aim ...
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Internetstores opens new returns center
The multichannel provider for bike and outdoor, Internetstores, which has been on a growth path for years, has opened a new returns center in the German city of Stuttgart-Untertürkheim, where, according to the company, the main focus is on employee-friendliness and efficiency. The new logistics hub is intended to relieve ...
