All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 12
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NewStore has a new president
NewStore, a Berlin- and Boston-based company offering turnkey omnichannel store solutions, promoted Richard Berger, who joined the company in December 2019 to oversee its customer-facing operations, from chief commercial officer to president. Stephan Schambach, NewStore’s CEO, chairman and founder, will continue to lead the executive team and board of directors.
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Citrus-Lime, British provider of cloud-based retail systems, breaks the £1 billion barrier
U.K.-based PoS solutions provider Citrus-Lime reports that customer sales processed through its End-to-End Retail Solution have broken through the £1 billion (€1.17bn-$1.39bn) barrier – a major milestone in the company’s history. More than half of that amount was transacted through the platform in the last 12 months alone, Citrus-Lime said. ...
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News briefsKlarna acquires influencer and performance marketing company APPRL
Klarna , the Swedish retail banking, payment and shopping service, has announced the acquisition of APPRL , a SaaS platform that enables content creators and retailers to work together seamlessly to deliver informative shopping content to consumers around the world. Klarna sees itself as a global growth partner for its ...
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News briefsYouTube acquires Indian social commerce platform Simsim
Google Inc, a subsidiary of technology holding Alphabet Inc, announced it has reached a definitive agreement for YouTube to acquire the Indian social commerce startup Simsim, which has a reach of more than 450 million active users per month, for more than $70 million. The acquisition is expected to help ...
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News briefsG-Motion e-bike store opening with Storck Bicycle
On July 15, the German Glinicke Automotive Group celebrated the opening of the “ G-Motion ” e-bike center in Kassel. Markus Storck , founder and CEO of Storck Bicycle , attended the festivities. His brand is the driving force behind the new store. With the cooperation between G-Motion and ...
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News briefsNew HDE scenario: German retail sales to grow 1.5% in 2021
The situation in the German retail industry continues to be dominated by recent store closures due to the last Covid lockdown. A survey of 650 retail companies across all locations, size categories and sectors conducted by the German Retail Association ( Handelsverband Deutschland , HDE) shows that more than half ...
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News briefsCimalp expands online store into German-speaking region
The French brand CimAlp has extended its offer to the entire German-speaking market: Consumers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) are now able to purchase CimAlp’s products directly at the brand’s website. For around ten years, the company from Saint Marcel, founded in 1964, has ...
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Bergzeit's bonus program cooperates with climbing app Vertical Life
With the launch of its “ Bergzeit Club ” bonus program, the German multichannel retailer has stepped up its commitment to customer relationship management. Now Bergzeit is bringing a new partner on board with the climbing app Vertical Life , which offers valuable benefits for club members by allowing them ...
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News briefsGerman DTC bicycle supplier Rose Bikes pushes expansion in brick-and-mortar retailing
End consumers have been able to test and buy bicycles from German DTC bicycle supplier Rose Bikes at Lengermann Trieschmann in Osnabrück, Breuninger in Stuttgart, Sport Reischmann in Kempten and the four Globetrotter stores in Cologne, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Dresden since April 2021. ...
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ArticleKlarna acquires social shopping platform Hero
Klarna , the retail banking, payments and shopping service from Sweden with over 90 million active users worldwide and 2 million transactions per day, has acquired Hero , a social shopping platform founded in 2015 and based in London and New York. Hero aims “to provide consumers with inspiration, advice ...
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News briefsSpanish consumers like shopping both online and in stores
According to the “ Estudio E-Commerce 2021 ,” a study put out by IAB Spain and Elogia , the distinction between e-tail and physical retail has blurred this year in Spain to the point of indifference for 58 percent of the country’s consumers. This is an increase of six ...
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ArticleGerman e-commerce grows strongly, marketplaces on the rise
Berlin-based e-commerce and mail order trade association, bevh , has released its market figures for the second quarter of 2021, seeing an unbroken overall trend towards e-commerce and marketplace sales for all types of goods in Germany. After strong recovery effects earlier in the year, e-commerce revenue in the ...
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ArticleSales in Austrian sports retail strongly divided in 20/21 winter season
Pointing to the strongly diverging business development for Austrian retailers (depending on location and product range focus), the national Association of Sporting Goods Manufacturers and Suppliers ( VSSÖ ) provided a first summary for the full year 2020 and the winter season Q4, 2020, and Q1, 2021. According ...
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Klarna is the first Fintech to join The Climate Pledge and Race to Zero campaign
Klarna , a leading global payments provider and shopping service from Sweden, announced that it is joining The Climate Pledge and the Race to Zero campaign. Klarna is to implement decarbonization strategies in line with the Paris Agreement in order to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in ...
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News briefsSport not among top e-commerce performers in Spain
Sport does not figure among the chief product categories in Spanish e-commerce. So says the latest edition of an annual study put out by Elogia , a Spanish digital marketing agency, and IAB Spain , which claims to be the world’s largest association of communications, advertising and digital marketing agencies. ...
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News briefsHestra relaunches webstore to grow and expand its business
Swedish glove specialist Hestra , founded in 1936, is expanding its digital business. As reported by ehandel.se , the company has been working with e-commerce agency Grebban for the past year to develop a global and modern e-commerce solution. Chris Weber , country manager Central Europe, told The ...
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ArticleBergzeit implements code of conduct for outdoor activities and suppliers
Bergzeit , the German online outdoor and mountain sports retailer based in Otterfing near Munich, has published a four-page code of conduct for activities in the mountains aimed at its employees and external partners. In view of the growing recreational pressure in the Alps, the company wants to “be a ...
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Facebook tests AI for store interaction with Instagram
Facebook said it plans to test an artificial intelligence tool in the coming months. Called “visual search,” it would allow Instagram users to click on the photo of a shared item and find similar products in its Facebook Shops application. The company said it would also introduce ...
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ArticleBergfreunde and the reduction of e-commerce’s carbon footprint:
“We are pioneers”Germany-based Bergfreunde GmbH ( bergfreunde.de ), part of the U.S.-based Backcountry Group (backcountry.com), is an online-only retailer selling outdoor clothing and equipment in a total of 14 European markets. In 2020, it generated sales of €155 million. In April , Bergfreunde joined the Science Based Targets ...
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ArticleStudy shows cross-border online shopping habits of Europeans
Cross-Border Commerce Europe ( CBCommerce ), a Brussels-based platform promoting cross-border online commerce in Europe, has examined and evaluated the 16 strongest European countries in terms of both consumer behavior and business performance in cross-border online shopping that generated sales of €146 billion in 2020 (excluding the travel segment) in ...
