All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 10
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ArticleE-commerce in Latin America to grow 37 percent by 2021, digital wallets for payment on the rise
According to the Beyond Borders 2021/2022 study by EBANX, a payments company that connects global and local businesses with Latin American consumers, the Latin American digital commerce market is expected to grow 37 percent year-on-year by the end of 2021, with double-digit growth across the region through 2025. Within this, ...
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News briefsSave and donate during Pyua's Green Week
German brand Pyua, founded in 2008 and a pioneer in functional outdoor clothing with the highest sustainability principles, is offering a 15 percent discount from Nov. 23-29 and at the same time donating another 15 percent of each sale to provide training for seamstresses in the production facilities of the ...
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Instead of Black Friday: Icebug donates to primeval forests
Rather than participate in the Black Friday discount battle, Swedish brand Icebug is once again donating all of its webshop proceeds on Nov. 26 to Naturarvet, a non-profit organization that works to preserve Sweden’s last primeval forests. Last year, about 9 hectares of old-growth forest were preserved in Svartsundets, Uppsala ...
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News briefsOrtovox closes webshop on Black Friday weekend
On Nov. 26-28, the Ortovox online store will be offline, the brand’s third consecutive closure on the Black Friday weekend as a sign against discount battles and consumerism. “We want to live responsibility and advocate sustainable and moderate consumption,” said Christian Schneidermeier, CEO of Ortovox. At the same time, the ...
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News briefs40th B.O.C. store in Germany is e-bike-only
With its 40th store in Germany, multi-channel bicycle retailer Bike & Outdoor Company GmbH & Co. KG (B.O.C.) is opening its first B.O.C. e-bike-only store on Nov. 25. It has a total area of 1,000 square meters and is located in an industrial park northeast of Lingen (Ems). In total, ...
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News briefsAdidas opens first European Terrex flagship store in Munich
In its first Terrex flagship store in Europe, Adidas is implementing for the first time a store design based on more sustainable materials and focusing on environmentally conscious equipment and apparel. The 370-square-meter store is located at Sendlinger Straße 18 in Munich, Germany. The company said that the integration and ...
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ArticleSupply bottleneck slows Bike24’s third quarter
German e-commerce cycling, running and swimming sports retailer Bike24 Holding AG, which has been listed on the stock exchange since mid-2021, reported good sales growth and continued high demand for its third quarter of the current fiscal year 2021. However, due to the “persistently tense situation on the sourcing market,” ...
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Wildberries installs first branded pickup points outside Russia
Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries has launched pickup points in Belarus, Armenia and Kazakhstan to increase brand awareness in these markets. The company began opening its first branded collection points in Russia in September 2020 and now has over 8,500.
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News briefsFirst Arc’teryx ReBird Service Center opens in New York
Arc’teryx has opened the first ReBird™ Service Center in its brand-new New York City store location on Broadway. As the brand’s sixth store in New York, the Broadway location is the first of its kind to offer Arc’teryx retail sales as well as free product evaluation, on-site care and training, ...
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News briefsDecathlon Germany unveils ambitious business plan, with cycling and outdoor as key pillars
According to its just-launched 2022 to 2026 business plan, Decathlon Germany aims to more than double its sales to a total of €2.5 billion by 2026. To achieve this, the company wants to transform itself from a specialist sports retailer to a holistic sporting goods platform, according to information from ...
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ArticleRevolutionRace nearly doubles turnover in Q1, German sales up 156%
RevolutionRace (RVRC) saw sales in the first quarter of its fiscal year jump by 95 percent from the year earlier to 254.2 million Swedish kronor (€25.6m-$29.7m), supported by continued demand for multi-functional garments and led by a stellar performance in Germany. On a constant currency basis, sales increased by 98 ...
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News briefsGlobetrotter expands second-hand sales ahead of Black Friday, now also available online
German outdoor retail chain Globetrotter, part of Frilufts Retail Europe, a subsidiary of Fenix Outdoor International, is once again hosting its ”Greener Week” from Nov. 22-27. For the fourth year in a row, the outdoor retailer is thus offering a range of sustainable alternatives to Black Friday’s unsustainable low-price sales ...
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News briefsOberalp Group opens Germany’s first Mountain Shop
The South Tyrolean Oberalp Group opened its first Mountain Shop in Germany in the city center of Augsburg in late October. On 150 square meters, the group has created a meeting point for the mountain sports community with its brands Salewa, Dynafit and – from summer 2022 ...
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News briefsThe Lycra Company launches online customer portal
The Lycra Company has launched Lycra One™, an online customer portal designed to allow brands, retailers and apparel manufacturers to connect with a global network of mills and manufacturers through one convenient platform. Lycra says that even before the pandemic hit, there was a need for a digital experience that ...
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News briefsOrtovox expands rental service for ski touring equipment in Germany and Austria
Together with 80 retailers in Germany and Austria, Ortovox will offer emergency equipment, Avabag avalanche airbag backpacks and normal backpacks as well as selected clothing for rental in the coming winter season. Which products can be rented from which retailer can be easily queried on the German Ortovox website. Interested ...
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Klarna acquires comparison shopping service PriceRunner
Klarna, the retail banking, payments and shopping service from Sweden, announced the acquisition of all shares in PriceRunner, a leading comparison shopping service in the Nordic region, from Creades, which invested SEK 370 million (€37.4m-$43.4m) in the price comparison site earlier this year, for just over SEK 9 billion (€910m-$1bn). ...
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News briefsBikeExchange creates chief customer officer position
BikeExchange Limited, an operator of a global online cycling marketplace, has appointed Rebecca Boxall as chief customer officer, a newly created position that completes the recruitment of its leadership team following the company’s IPO in February. Boxall, who is currently VP of e-commerce, marketing and customer experience at Canadian company ...
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ArticleBike-Components joins forces with brick-and-mortar retailers
The German e-commerce bicycle platform Bike-Components (managed by BC GmbH & Co. KG) is launching a new business segment next year: BC Remote is an ordering platform for brick-and-mortar bicycle dealers only. The background to this is that bicycle shops, in times of supply bottlenecks, sometimes search for missing parts ...
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News briefsWildberries expands to Baltics
Russia’s largest online retailer Wildberries is entering Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but the marketplaces are only available in English and Russian. The company also announced that iOS and Android mobile applications would soon be available in the three Baltic countries. Wildberries indicated that international logistics operators deliver orders in the ...
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News briefsCanada Goose’s Basecamp community is first to buy the brand’s new footwear
Canada Goose announced a pre-sale for its first footwear collection available only to members of Basecamp, the brand’s (free) community platform. On Basecamp, fans are the first to hear about company announcements and product launches, including new collections and limited editions, plus they get exclusive access to experiences such as ...
