All E-Commerce & DTC articles – Page 22
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News briefsBergfreunde reports 31 percent growth in 2021, turnover exceeds €200 million
German e-commerce specialist Bergfreunde has released its 2021 report, stating a record turnover of €203 million. Given the unbroken growth trend in 2022, Bergfreunde is investing in new employees and further expanding its customer support (which currently counts 60 people) and IT development team. In 2021 alone, the store IT ...
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News briefsVaude tackles fake stores
The e-commerce market is growing, and at the same time, there are not only more and more but also more professional fake stores. Renowned brands, in particular, are affected by this scam. Vaude is taking action against this together with the company Convey to protect its own brand and its ...
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News briefsTwitter expands selling opportunities with Twitter Shops
Launched as a U.S.-only initiative at first, the new Twitter Shops service now offers merchants on Twitter the opportunity to showcase and sell up to 50 different products at a time. The new beta feature will display a “View shop” button just above a company’s tweets that leads to a ...
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News briefsSporting goods companies react to war in Ukraine
(Mach 2) As reported by the Portland Business Journal, Nike has temporarily halted sales through its Russian website and app, stating that the company “cannot guarantee delivery of goods to customers in Russia.” While the reference to possible delivery difficulties is not a direct position on the Russian invasion of ...
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ArticleSSU grows by only 10.6% as bike supply issues persist
Signa Sports United (SSU), which continues to be hampered by supply chain issues within its full-bike segment, grew first-quarter revenues by 10.6 percent to €213 million due to strong sales gains within its tennis (+43 percent) and outdoor equipment (+20 percent) segments. Excluding sales of full bikes, first-quarter revenues climbed ...
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News briefsIntersport Sweden appoints Johan Järnliden as member of the board
Source: Intersport Johan Jaernliden Johan Järnliden, voted Sweden’s best marketing manager of the year in 2019, started his new position as a member of the board of Intersport Sweden in February 2022. He has been working as marketing manager for the online hardware store and machinery dealer ...
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News briefsBergans opens flagship store in Stavanger
Bergans is opening its first dedicated store in Stavanger, Norway, on Feb. 24 at Nygata 9. According to Anett Kolstad, retail director at Bergans, it is time to open a store in Rogaland’s capital. Due to its location near the Lysefjord, Preikestolen or Kerag, Stavanger is considered a popular tourist ...
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News briefsShopify expects sales to decline when the pandemic ends
While the majority is hoping that the Covid-19 pandemic will have less and less of an impact on our daily lives in the coming months, that very prospect is apparently dampening expectations for annual revenue at e-commerce platform Shopify, according to online service t3n. The company is forecasting a decline ...
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ArticleAn increasing number of brands is entering the apparel rental business
For outdoor and sports equipment brands, the rental business is an essential pillar for a sustainable business. And now, a growing number of companies are offering apparel as well. Here’s an overview.
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Dutch camping specialist Obelink wants to become a marketplace
Retailtrends.nl reports that camping outfitter Obelink has just opened its online shop to third-party suppliers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, becoming the first specialized camping and outdoor marketplace. In addition to its web store, the retailer, which was founded in 1960, also operates a megastore with around 72,500 square ...
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ArticleRevolutionRace keeps up sales momentum
Swedish DTC outdoor company RevolutionRace (RVRC) says it is seeing continued robust growth at the start of the third quarter of its fiscal year, after sales in the second quarter increased by 58 percent to 392 million Swedish kronor (€37.5m-$42.8m) amid continued strong demand for multifunctional garments. On a constant ...
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ArticleU.K. e-tailer SportsShoes.com stocks Patagonia’s Hike and Trail line
SportsShoes.com, an online retailer of running, hiking and fitness products headquartered in Shipley, Yorkshire, has entered into a retail partnership with Patagonia for the Californian brand’s Hike and Trail collection. Brett Bannister, managing director of SportsShoes.com, commented to local news website T&A: “We are hugely excited to have a brand ...
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News briefsNew CEO for Decathlon
Source: Decathlon Barbara Martin Coppola Decathlon has announced the appointment of Barbara Martin Coppola as the group’s new CEO, starting in mid-March. She will take the place of Michel Aballea, who has held the helm of the world’s largest sporting goods retailer since 2015. The French-based company ...
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News briefsBike24 launches online shops in Italy and France
As part of its international expansion, Bike24, a Germany-based e-commerce bike platform listed on the stock exchange since mid-2021, has launched country-specific webshops in France and Italy, two major European cycling nations. “These new shops give our customers a shopping experience tailored to them without any language barriers,” said Andrés ...
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News briefsHohenstein and Presize cooperate to reduce textile returns
Hohenstein, a German provider of textile testing and a founding member of Oeko-Tex, has joined forces with digital pioneer Presize to offer an all-around service that ranges from size chart creation to digital scaling for automated size recommendations in online stores. The combination of classic size charts, reliable fit and ...
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News briefsBergfreunde leads ranking of Germany’s climate-conscious companies
In their ranking of “Germany’s climate-conscious companies,” the market research company Statista and the business magazine Capital have named the online specialist retailer Bergfreunde the company with the strongest climate awareness in Germany, based on data from over 2,000 German companies. The analysis focused on the question of which companies ...
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News briefsEquip reports successful trial run of polybag recycling project
Source: EOG/Rab U.K. outdoor brands Rab and Lowe Alpine (owned by Equip Outdoor Technologies Ltd.), together with the European Outdoor Group (EOG), have presented the first results of their polybag recycling project, conducted as part of the EOG’s Single Use Plastics (SUP) project. In this test run, ...
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News briefsFristads introduces online tool to calculate environmental impact of workwear
Fristads, a Swedish workwear manufacturer that also expanded into the outdoor segment in 2020, has made it easier to be aware of the environmental footprint of its workwear by developing its so-called Green Calculator. The digital tool uses real data to calculate the difference that choosing eco-friendly workwear can make ...
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News briefsArc’teryx continues global brand store expansion
Source: Arc’teryx Arc’teryx has increased the number of its own brand stores by 15 percent Canadian brand Arc’teryx Equipment opened 21 stores internationally in the past twelve months, ending 2021 with a total of 159 brick-and-mortar brand shops globally. In addition to the new stores, Arc’teryx also ...
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News briefsTeijin launches new Future Navigation website
Japanese fiber and fabrics specialist Teijin has launched an interactive website named Future Navigation to interact with individuals and groups interested in discovering and discussing solutions that address social issues in the modern world. The project is connected to the 100th anniversary of the company in 2018 when the first ...
