News emerged today that the Yoox and Outnet buying effort will be combined. But with both selling product from previous seasons to a similar set of customers and with the Italian Yoox.com easily dwarfing smaller Outnet.com, can it continue to exist in its current form? Of course, there are differences between the two as well…
Everyone knows by now that Yasmin Sewell has been named Fashion Director of Style.com as Condé Nast shifts it from a runway-meets-street-style editorial platform to an e-commerce powerhouse that lets readers buy the products they see in the publishing giant’s print editions. She started yesterday, reporting directly to Style.com president Franck Zayan. So, on the…
E-commerce giant Alibaba, the company that made Singles Day the world’s biggest shopping event, broke its own record today by beating last year’s full-day total in half the time. It was helped by some heavyweight celebrity endorsement, including Kevin Spacey also in his House of Cards President Frank Underwood persona. “Here at the White House, there…
Has the world gone mad? John Lewis that perfect example of the British department store is moving to Europe. OK, it’s heading to country-next-door The Netherlands so we’re not talking major cultural mash-up here. But it’s doing it via a deal with de Bijenkorf. Isn’t that the high-end Dutch department store owned by the same…
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