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[mind Retail Exclusive] Kiabi to launch retail media business
Mind Retail learned that, building on the success of a digital marketplace, fashion retailer Kiabi is to launch a retail media business. This is a first for a private-label fashion retailer.
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- Retail tech
24 January 2024
[mind Retail Exclusive] American Adore Me wants to digitalise wholesale business
At NRF 2024 mind Retail learned that U.S. lingerie online retailer Adore Me (part of Victoria's Secret) is moving away from a purely digital and DTC approach. To gain traction in the wholesale...
16 January 2024
UK : After Missguided, will Shein acquire TopShop?
Shein continues a strategic shift towards a marketplace business, already launched in the U.S.A. Brazil and now due in Europe. It has just acquired Missguided and may add Topshop in its portfolio.
- Retail
- News
31 October 2023
Jeremie Profeta, CTO Sonepar “The digital marketplace will launch in France by the end of 2023 and the USA could follow very quickly”
Sonepar, the world's largest electrical equipment retailer, has announced investments of €2 billion in supply chain and €1 billion in an international digital platform. Jeremie Profeta, C.T.O. and...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- Analysis
18 July 2023
Carrefour Brazil. How e-commerce doubled in Q4 2022 with VTEX
Last June, Carrefour’s Brazilian subsidiary launched an omnichannel integration project with VTEX. “The challenge was to serve web orders faster, offering more convenience and agility...
29 March 2023
Buy Box, end of wholesale: How to prepare for Amazon’s new distribution strategy
In early March 2023, Amazon announced that it would stop sourcing from wholesalers. At the end of December 2022, the business had agreed to review the "Buy Box" mechanism, a key engine for sales...
- Retail
- News
24 March 2023
Why Carrefour is outsourcing non-food e-commerce to Rakuten
On 14 March, during the 1-to-1 conference in Monaco, Carrefour (2022 sales of €90.8 billion, up by 8.4% organic excluding petrol) announced the opening of a digital store on the Rakuten...
22 March 2023
Algolia : How Harry Rosen more than tripled conversion rate in 3 years
In Canada, the men's fashion chain has been integrating Algolia,Commercetools and Amplience technologies over 3 years. The firm reports a boost for sales conversion and growth of online sales.
- Retail
- News
2 January 2023
Rakuten launches a payment solution open to 2,000 sites
With Club R Pay, the Rakuten marketplace offers members of Club R loyalty programme an integrated payment and cross-brand cashback solution.
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- News
13 December 2022
Alexander Soncini, VTEX : “In Brazil, 40% of online sales of C&A come from Whatsapp”
Listed on the US Stock Exchange for one year, the Brazilian unicorn VTEX stands out from many IT publishers thanks to its broad functional scope (e-commerce, marketplaces and OMS) and wants to...
- Retail
- Retailer and e-commerce
- News
28 June 2022
Nike did not need Amazon… until now
After having refused to sell via Amazon alongside its own retail channels, the sporting goods retailer Nike (sales of US$34.4 billion in the fiscal year to May 2017, up by 6%) has decided that it...
26 July 2017
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