All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 19
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ArticleBezos hands over leadership of Amazon
Jeff Bezos will hand over the chairmanship of Amazon’s board in the third quarter of 2021 to Andy Jassy, the head of the cloud business Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon made the announcement on Feb. 2 after the U.S. stock market closed in Seattle. Source: Amazon Jeff Bezos ...
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News briefsDeckers appoints DTC and digital specialist to its board
Deckers Brands has appointed Maha S. Ibrahim to its board of directors, effective Feb. 1. Mike Devine, chairman of the board, said he especially values her experience identifying trends and driving growth in the direct-to-consumer and technology sectors. He also said Ibrahim’s insights and capabilities align with management’s focus on ...
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K2 Sports upgrades North American B2B e-commerce with Elastic Suite platform
Emerald Holding, organizer of the Outdoor Retailer and Surf Expo trade shows, among others, announced that U.S. snowsports and outdoor company K2 Sports is now using Emerald’s Elastic Suite B2B e-commerce and digital merchandising solution for its U.S. and Canada markets. Emerald had just completed the acquisition of PlumRiver Technologies, ...
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Didriksons pop-up in Paris
As reported by Sportfack, Didriksons is opening a temporary showroom in the Le Marais district of Paris at 12 Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth. Didriksons’ offering has been available to French customers for a little over a year, but only through e-commerce at didriksons.com. The brand, founded in 1913 in Grundsund ...
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News briefsShopify expands Technovation partnership globally, inspiring future women in tech
Shopify, the global e-commerce software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, is expanding its partnership with Technovation, a global tech education nonprofit. The partnership started Shopify more than six years ago, originally to help young Canadian women become tech leaders in their communities. Shopify is now expanding the collaboration to the ...
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ArticleDigital natives are the most frequent cross-border e-commerce shoppers
A recent survey by eShopWorld, a privately held Irish company headquartered in Dublin with offices around the globe that provides a technology platform for brands and retailers looking to sell online to global markets, found out that younger, digitally native consumers aged 25 to 34 are the group that most ...
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News briefsTradeinn sales exceed expectations
Tradeinn, the Spanish e-retailer running several specialized international retail websites including snowinn.com, trekkinn.com, bikeinn.com, xtremeinn.com and many others, posted revenues of €288 million for 2020, representing an increase of €100 million from 2019, according to sport-guide.com. According to the report, results for the full year exceeded the company’s expectations, as ...
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Bergfreunde.de teams up with Sport 2000
Starting Feb. 1, German online retailer Bergfreunde.de will be working with the Sport 2000 buying group. Bergfreunde.de was founded in 2006 and taken over by U.S. online retailer Backcountry.com in 2014. It is one of the leading climbing and hiking webshops in Germany, with a turnover of over €100 million ...
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ArticleSwedish DTC brand RevolutionRace with new chairman
RevolutionRace (RVRC), a Boras, Sweden-based D2C startup owned by Altor, a Stockholm-based private equity investment firm, has received a prominent addition to its board. E-commerce professional Paul Fischbein is taking over as chairman of the outdoor company that made around €50m in sales in 2020. RevolutionRace was founded by Pernilla ...
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Italian postal service acquires Chinese e-commerce solution provider
The Italian postal and financial services group Poste Italiane and Cloud Seven Holding have signed a binding deal to reinforce their partnership in e-commerce services between Italy and China. Under the deal, Poste Italiane will buy 51 percent of the voting capital of Sengi Express, a wholly-owned unit of Cloud ...
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Australia's BCF sees sales grow by more than 50% while online sales jump 113%
The BCF (Boating Camping Fishing) chain, part of Super Retail Group, posted a 51 percent sales increase in the financial half-year ending Dec. 26, 2020. Sales on a same-store basis also increased by 51 percent. Meanwhile, online revenues rose by 113 percent. BCF is Australia’s largest retailer of fishing tackle. ...
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Brand Machine Group goes global with newly acquired U.S. outdoor brand Penfield
SGB Media reports that U.K.-based Brand Machine Group (BMG) has acquired U.S. outdoor brand Penfield, founded in 1975 and based in Massachusetts. BMG, a global licensing specialist, said it would begin Penfield’s global wholesale rollout this January for its fall/winter 2021 men’s and women’s collections; both will feature the brand’s ...
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Wildberries launches German online store
Wildberries, Russia’s biggest online retailer, has just rolled out its online store in Germany. Germany brings the number of markets in which the company operates up to ten. Wildberries began its expansion in Europe in 2020, starting with an online store in Poland. Most recently, it also entered the Israeli ...
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Bergans to open new brand store in Trondheim
Bergans of Norway will open a new brand store in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. Anett Kolstad, the brand’s retail director, said that she has been looking for a vacant retail space in the city for quite some time and has now found what she says is “the perfect venue” ...
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Danish retail chain Eventyrsport acquires stake in outdoor experience portal
Danish outdoor chain Eventyrsport, which operates 13 physical stores and an online store that is also available in Swedish, has bought into Outdoor365 ApS, a Danish outdoor experience portal. Outdoor365 has organized the country’s largest outdoor festival in Ry since 2015 and last year launched an online portal where users ...
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News briefsBlue Tomato hit hard by store closures
Blue Tomato was hit hard by Covid-19-related store closures in Europe in the 10 weeks leading up to Jan. 9, according to its U.S.-based parent Zumiez. However, the group’s Australian action sports retail chain, Fast Times, performed “extremely well.” Bottom line, the group’s international sales declined 6.7 percent in dollars ...
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News briefsCMP opens three new European stores
CMP is opening three new stores in the European ski resorts of Avoriaz and Tignes in France and Rottach Egern in Germany. The Italian brand, part of F.lli Campagnolo group, already has a store in France, in Chamonix, while the new shop in Rottach Egern is CMP’s first in Germany.
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ArticleA quarter of German online shoppers are looking for more sustainable purchases
A recent representative survey conducted by the opinion research company Civey on behalf of the German E-Commerce and Mail Order Retail Association (bevh) has revealed that a quarter of the German online shoppers are consciously looking for sustainable shopping offers on the Internet. According to bevh, sustainable packaging is essential ...
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ArticleWho are the winners of the Corona summer?
The outdoor industry and tourism associations weathered the first Corona summer quite well. Some hiking and biking equipment suppliers were even able to record double-digit growth rates compared to the previous year. However, things are now looking rather bleak for the first few months of the coming year.
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UK online marketplace OnBuy with New Year’s Day price crash event ahead of global rollout
OnBuy, a U.K. online marketplace launched in November 2016, has announced a £50 million price crash event for New Year’s Day. The marketplace, which offers products in 17 categories, including sports & outdoor, will reduce all seller fees so that every single one of the more than 30 million items ...
