All E-commerce articles – Page 8
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News briefs11teamsports has a new Chief Commercial Officer
Source: 11teamsports Andreas Kohn According to Fashion United, Germany-based football and teamsports e-tailer 11teamsports has appointed Andreas Kohn as the group’s new Chief Commercial Officer on July 1. With over two decades of experience in sales and strategy, Kohn will lead the commercial areas of all 11teamsports ...
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News briefsAmazon reportedly plans to launch Chinese goods discount store
According to the Financial Times, Amazon aims to include a new discount section on its app’s homepage with products from Chinese warehouses that can be delivered to shoppers in nine to 11 days. The news comes as Amazon faces intensifying competition from Chinese e-commerce platforms like Temu and Shein. The ...
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ArticleAI fashion catalog promises to save time and money
A London-headquartered start-up founded in 2022, Truss, is cataloguing the world’s clothes, or at least the share of it produced by fashion houses. As Truss sees things, its product is useful for e-commerce and resale, for fashion brands themselves and for marketplaces, but also for insurers, which require proper appraisals ...
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News briefsCoupang appoints AI specialist to Board of Directors
Source: Coupang Asha Sharma Coupang, Inc., the technology company that acquired the assets of global online luxury company Farfetch Holdings earlier this year, has appointed Asha Sharma, Corporate Vice President and Head of Product, AI Platform at Microsoft, to the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining ...
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ArticleUnisport opens first store in Germany
Unisport, an e-tailer for soccer equipment with a solid social media presence, has opened its first physical store in Germany at Neuhauser Straße 5 in Munich’s city center. Unisport has been operating a successful e-commerce platform in Germany since 2016. “We are delighted to be able to offer our German ...
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News briefsAuthentic Brands announces partnership with Cart.com
Source: Cart.com Cart.com, a provider of unified commerce and logistics solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Authentic Brands Group. Through the partnership, Cart.com will provide scalable, omni-channel customer support and merchant-of-record services across portions of its portfolio of e-commerce brands. Cart.com’s customer engagement solution creates seamless ...
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News briefsSerious sales growth at Pro Padel Shop
Padel Pro Shop’s first-half sales for 2024 doubled year-on-year, from €4 million to more than €8 million, according to TradeSport. The e-commerce specialist expects to generate €20 million by year’s end. This would be up from FY 2023’s €10 million. Its verticals, pádel and handball, as founder and CEO Dionisio ...
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News briefsStockX halts 400,000 suspected fakes in 12 months
The online marketplace StockX reports in its Big Facts: The Verification Report, which covers the twelve months to May 31, 2024, that it used its verification methods to reject over 400,000 suspected counterfeit products worth almost $85 million. This is around 100,000 more counterfeits than in the previous year. In ...
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ArticleANWR Group is confident about the future
At the Annual General Meeting of the international trade cooperation ANWR Group eG on June 5 in Mainhausen, Germany, the Executive Board presented the strategic fields of action for the coming years under the motto “We make trade successful”. In the future, the ANWR Group will strongly focus on the ...
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News briefsOneFootball teams up with Stadion to launch soccer marketplace
OneFootball has announced a new collaboration with Stadion, a London-based digital sports agency, to introduce a unique online soccer marketplace. This venture aims to integrate a personalized e-commerce platform within the OneFootball app, providing AI-powered product recommendations to fans. Set to debut this summer, the marketplace will allow fans to ...
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News briefsSportsshoes.com announces 11% increase in sales, 663,000 new customers in last 12 months
SportsShoes.com has achieved an 11 percent year-on-year increase in turnover to £90m (€105.6 million) and acquired 663,000 new customers in 12 months. The retailer also secured 749,000 orders from repeat customers during the same period. SportsShoes.com offers more than 17,000 products from 150 running and outdoor brands, including Nike, Adidas ...
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News briefsDavid Beckham signs with Alibaba
David Beckham has signed an endorsement deal with Alibaba, according to The Independent and others. The deal is reportedly the biggest ever entered into by the Chinese e-commerce giant, although the terms remain undisclosed. It is connected with a marketing campaign for this year’s UEFA Euro tournament. Beckham will be ...
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News briefsBullpadel hits the UK’s e-tail mainstream
The distributor MRH Sport has struck a deal to sell Bullpadel pádel racquets through John Lewis. We learn this from The Padel Paper, according to which John Lewis is the first major department store in the UK to stock pádel racquets for online sale. Some 18 Bullpadel racquets are now ...
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ArticleRussian sporting goods market experiences surge in cross-border e-commerce
During the past year, the Russian sporting goods market saw a 16 percent rise in cross-border e-commerce, as customers are increasingly placing orders at foreign marketplaces, CDEK.Shopping, a Russian logistics company estimated. The company revealed that Russians purchase food additives and sporting goods in massive quantities to improve their performance ...
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News briefsNike faces decline in running shoe website traffic as rivals gain ground
Nike has seen a notable decline in website traffic for its running shoe category, falling behind in a fiercely competitive market. According to Similarweb’s data, traffic to Nike.com’s running segment has steadily decreased from March 2022 to March 2024, a period during which rival brands like Brooks have caught up, ...
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News briefsAmazon launches its marketplace in South Africa
Amazon has announced the launch of Amazon.co.za, its online marketplace in South Africa, available on desktop and mobile browsers or by downloading the Amazon Shopping App. Customers in South Africa can now shop from a selection of brands across 20 different product categories, such as sporting equipment, consumer electronics, toys ...
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ArticleFrasers Group revamps digital infrastructure to enhance retail operations
Frasers Group is embarking on a digital transformation aimed at boosting the efficiency of its retail operations and enhancing the online shopping experience across its sports, premium, and luxury brand websites and apps. Described as a “first of its kind” initiative, the retail powerhouse views this investment as pivotal to ...
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News briefsParis 2024 branded products now available on Tmall
Alibaba has announced that fans in China can now access official Paris 2024 branded products on Tmall’s Olympic Store. Fans can purchase a range of licensed merchandise, including toys of the Phryges, the official mascots of the upcoming Games. Alibaba is a worldwide Olympic Partner and the Tmall platform, part ...
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ArticleNo company sells more clothes in Spain than Shein
Shein appears to have become the top online retailer for fashion in Spain, where it has surpassed Zara and H&M, as well as in Italy, Greece and Portugal, according to Diffusion Sport, which cites figures from the consultancy ECDB. Indeed, the e-commerce specialist – of Chinese origin but Singaporean headquarters ...
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News briefsA delay in Google’s Sandbox plan
Google is putting off until 2025 the deprecation of the third-party cookie in its Chrome browser, a plan we reported on in January. In its report for the first quarter of this year the company will be publishing the following notice: “We are providing an update on the plan for ...
