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Bestseller brands partner with Bambuser for live shopping

Danish fashion group Bestseller has announced that two of its brands, Name It and Vero Moda, have launched a live shopping broadcasting platform in partnership with Bambuser. Name It, a childrenswear brand, will broadcast live several times per week with prominent Danish influencers participating as hosts or guests. The live shopping experience...

23 Feb 2021

Business

Top 6 ways consumer behavior impacted e-commerce in 2020

2020 was an unprecedented year for e-commerce. Growth went through the roof when consumers - often out of necessity - started to buy more through online channels. To find out the impact of consumer behavior on e-commerce, AfterPay Insights (the e-commerce insights platform from payment method AfterPay - Arvato Financial Solutions) surveyed more...

23 Feb 2021

Business

Whitepaper: what has changed in omnichannel retail? Everything.

Almost overnight, we’ve seen a great digital shift in the retail industry. From changing people’s buying habits to transforming the way retailers engage with and support their customers. The pace of change in 2020 has seen retailers rapidly scale their digital operations, expand delivery capabilities, enter new markets and in some cases...

23 Feb 2021

Retail

ThirdLove personalizes ecommerce with virtual “Fitting Room”

ThirdLove has unveiled a new digital offering to help its shoppers get the most from their online experience. The online intimates retailer has launched “The Fitting Room” - an interactive quiz that builds upon the brand’s original Fit Finder quiz. The Fitting Room helps customers find their best products and fits through a series of questions...

28 Jan 2021

Business

Amazon charged with abusing online retail competition

Amazon has been charged with damaging retail competition by the European Union. The company’s sheer size and dominant position in online retail has seen it abuse an unfair advantage over competitors. The BBC said Amazon had used data on third-party sellers that use its marketplace to boost sales of its own-label goods. According to European...

11 Nov 2020

Business

Corona: we soften your problems

After the irruptions, as consequence of the lock down measures early this year, the “business to business” fashion logistics market slowly started to recover during summer. Nevertheless, sales figures did not manage to reach the levels as expected, since consumers became conservative in their spending, being uncertain about the near future....

6 Nov 2020

Business

CommentSold launches on-demand live replay

CommentSold, a digital commerce solution that enables small and medium-sized retail businesses to unlock sales growth through live and social selling, has launched a new mobile app functionality that provides enhanced live-selling capability to its merchant partners. The new app features include Live Replay, which enables retailers to tap...

2 Oct 2020

Retail

Visualsoft launches partnership programme

Visualsoft has launched a partnership programme to “empower solution providers to grow their business, build their network and increase the revenue of their retailers”. The newly launched programme “offers uncapped earning potential to those signed up, with revenue share for successful referrals placed through the platform,” according to...

13 Aug 2020

Retail

E-Commerce in Germany: What characterises online shoppers?

Germany experienced a record year in 2019 in terms of e-commerce, with multichannel retailers recording a particularly substantial increase in sales. As the fifth-largest e-commerce market in the world and the second-largest in Europe, Germany is attractive for foreign players. However, the German market has local and regional requirements that...

28 Jul 2020

Retail

Online shopping to accelerate, forecasts Goldman Sachs

Forecasts by global investment group Goldman Sachs show e-commerce will expand by 19 percent over the next three years, an increase of 3 percent comparison to a previous forecast of 16 percent. The company said the growth of online shopping is fuelled by the U.S., Brazil, Western Europe and APAC according to a report released earlier this month....

27 Jul 2020

Fashion

Candiani launches e-commerce site, marks occasion with limited-edition collab

Italian denim mill Candiani has launched its first online e-commerce platform and has partnered with German brand Closed for a limited-edition capsule collection to mark the occasion. The new Candiani Denim Store features a variety of limited-edition pieces exclusive to the store with brands such as Denham the Jeanmaker, Dondup, Blue of a Kind,...

23 Jul 2020

Business

Delivery giant Hermes to create 10,500 new UK jobs as online shopping booms

Delivery giant Hermes is creating 10,500 new jobs in the UK and investing 100 million pounds to expand its capacity to meet huge demand as online shopping booms. The company is looking for 9,000 self-employed couriers and 1,500 full-time staff, some of which will work at the company’s head office in Yorkshire. Recruitment for the positions has...

21 Jul 2020