HATCH news and archive

FP Movement teams up with Hatch on an exclusive maternity collection

FP Movement, Free People’s activewear brand, has teamed up with maternity fashion platform Hatch to launch a limited-edition maternity activewear collection. The 15-piece FP Movement x Hatch collection has been designed to support women navigating through the pregnancy, postpartum and new motherhood journey, while offering women fashion-forward...

Business

Marquee Brands invests in Hatch, creates parent company for maternity brands

Marquee Brands has invested in maternity fashion brand Hatch and announced a new parent company, Hatch Collective, to consolidate its other maternity labels. US brand Hatch announced Wednesday the completion of a growth equity funding financing, though the amount raised was not disclosed. Newly formed Hatch Collective will be led by Hatch...

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Fashion-tech start-ups Stitch 3D and Hatch join forces as new company Stitch

Both start ups are consolidating years of fashion-tech expertise and real-world learnings under a new company called Stitch, bringing the Digital Showroom, the 3D Hub and transformation services in one unique offering to help brands future-proof their value chain. Fashion-tech start-ups Hatch and Stitch 3D, backed by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], owner...

Fashion

5 Surprising Ways Users Can Leverage a Digital Showroom

The Digital Showroom isn’t just a space reserved for wholesale or Sales, but a central hub to break silos and enhance cross-team collaboration. In this industry, we’re product people and it’s more than just about the numbers, we like to see, feel and present in a visual way. A platform already being used across the field for doing sales...

Fashion

Showrooms: The Next Frontier in Wholesale Revenue Growth in 2022

2022 is looking a lot like 2021 with regards to fashion and wholesale. Investment in digital remains strong, yet brands aren’t immune to the global supply chain issues and still face problems running sales seasons. How is this possible? Shouldn’t digital have alleviated this? For brands with large revenue contributions coming from wholesale...

Business

3D Technology: A New Dimension for wholesale

Wholesale took a hit during the pandemic, but it also resulted in an opportunity to revolutionize and bring fashion into the new frontier of scaling 3D. In 2021, wholesale’s process is striving for overall efficiency, not volume. As digitization has taken place throughout the fashion and wholesale industry, 3D technology has the potential to...

Business

Havaianas shares its digitalisation journey and embracing technology

In 2021, Havaianas switched its wholesale selling season entirely digitally, practically eliminating all physical samples. The move to digitalisation was accelerated due to Covid-19, but for the near sixty-year-old brand, it is was an important step to drive a more efficient, more resilient and more sustainable fashion value chain. To find out...

Business

Three trends changing showrooms in 2022

For decades, samples and showrooms were the only way to sell collections wholesale. 2020 changed all that. Samples and showrooms were unavailable overnight and sales reps had to adapt and oh my, did they do it! 18 months later fashion has taken down walls that had stood solid for years. From 3D to remote collaboration, fashion is digitizing...

Business

The Future of Wholesale is Better Sales, not More Sales

Direct-To-Consumer is fashion’s new cool kid on the block and that’s because 2020 hit fashion hard. Really hard. In order to survive, 2020 also became the industry’s most innovative year in history and direct-to-consumer (or direct in short) fashion’s top priority. Brands like Nike or Levi’s have turned their focus to this channel looking for...

BusinessFeatured

Fashion's digital reckoning: one year on

When Tommy Hilfiger introduced a fully digital showroom back in 2015, little did parent company PVH know it would spell the future of wholesale. While offering a seamless interface of selling tools, a novel touchscreen where buyers can merchandise collections without requiring to see samples, it hadn’t banked on the notion that one day those...

Business

Digital Showroom startup HATCH launches HATCH Connect: an immersive remote selling experience for brands and retailers

Virtual appointments, real connections. Amsterdam, the Netherlands (April 2021): PVH-backed startup HATCH is launching HATCH Connect, its latest addition to their Digital Showroom platform. HATCH Connect enables customers to conduct virtual appointments directly from the Digital Showroom without having to use additional software such as Google...

Business

4 ways storytelling can make your wholesale business more sustainable

When it comes to wholesale selling, storytelling has become paramount for brands to engage with customers digitally and remotely. Better storytelling means investing in content production and this can be daunting for brands of all sizes. However, the benefits of better storytelling can make your process more efficient, engaging, and sustainable....