All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 12

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    40th B.O.C. store in Germany is e-bike-only

    2021-11-19T13:45:00Z

    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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    Adidas opens first European Terrex flagship store in Munich

    2021-11-18T15:24:00Z

    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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    Supply bottleneck slows Bike24’s third quarter

    2021-11-15T12:08:00Z

    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

    2021-11-11T09:50:00Z

    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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    First Arc’teryx ReBird Service Center opens in New York

    2021-11-10T14:00:00Z

    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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    Decathlon Germany unveils ambitious business plan, with cycling and outdoor as key pillars

    2021-11-10T14:00:00Z

    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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    RevolutionRace nearly doubles turnover in Q1, German sales up 156%

    2021-11-10T10:30:00Z

    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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    Globetrotter expands second-hand sales ahead of Black Friday, now also available online

    2021-11-07T17:24:00Z

    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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    ​Oberalp Group opens Germany’s first Mountain Shop

    2021-11-04T15:28:00Z

    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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    The Lycra Company launches online customer portal

    2021-11-03T08:52:00Z

    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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    Ortovox expands rental service for ski touring equipment in Germany and Austria

    2021-11-02T13:27:00Z

    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

    2021-11-02T10:56:00Z

    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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    BikeExchange creates chief customer officer position

    2021-11-02T09:12:00Z

    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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    Bike-Components joins forces with brick-and-mortar retailers

    2021-10-24T18:11:00Z

    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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    Wildberries expands to Baltics

    2021-10-21T10:31:00Z

    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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    Canada Goose’s Basecamp community is first to buy the brand’s new footwear

    2021-10-21T08:31:00Z

    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 ...

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    Signa Sports United collects more funds

    2021-10-19T06:14:00Z

    The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is about to make a major investment in Signa Sports United (SSU), the big operator of online stores based in Berlin, which indicated four months ago its intention to go public. It would join other investors including Abu Dhabi’s ...

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    SBTi approves eBay’s ambitious climate action goal

    2021-10-15T11:33:00Z

    eBay Inc. continues its commitment to climate action by setting an ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). eBay commits to reduce its own (scope 1 and scope 2) emissions by 90 percent by 2030 from a 2019 base year, in line with limiting ...

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    RevolutionRace publishes first sustainability report after IPO

    2021-10-14T10:57:00Z

    In its 2020/21 Annual and Sustainability Report, Swedish DTC brand RevolutionRace (RVRC) reports that it has performed strongly and profitably over the past fiscal year, with very positive growth in both new and existing markets. RVRC Holding AB, which went public on the Stockholm Nasdaq in June, posted strong results ...

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    Bergans with new German online store and e-commerce team

    2021-10-13T07:54:00Z

    Bergans Outdoor GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Norwegian outdoor company Bergans of Norway, launched its new online store for Germany on Oct. 12, complementing the already existing Norwegian and Swedish DTC webshops. Laura Ninnemann and Gizem Karakoyun are responsible as the e-commerce team for the new German store. Ninnemann, ...