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B2B Marketplace Faire Accelerates the Digitization of an Underserved Market: Wholesale

Retail TouchPoints

But one area of commerce has stubbornly resisted this move toward digitization — wholesale. People basically just ignored the third leg of that triangle though, the wholesale leg.” Since its launch in 2017, the platform has raised more than $1.29 billion and was valued at $12.59 billion after its last funding round in May 2022.

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Wholesale Marketplace Faire Expands into Europe

Retail TouchPoints

B2B wholesale marketplace Faire is expanding into Europe with launches in the UK and the Netherlands, with plans to add additional European markets in the coming months. Created by four former Square employees in 2017, Faire was recently valued at $2.5 billion after its latest $170 million Series E funding round.

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DTC Activewear Brand Vuori Valued at $4B After Latest Funding

Retail TouchPoints

The company has been profitable since 2017. Launched in 2016 as a DTC business, Vuori has since expanded to brick-and-mortar via wholesale at retailers including Nordstrom and REI , as well as with 10 standalone stores. The company plans to add more than 100 additional stores in the U.S.

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How Advanced Email Analytics Helped Kerrits Boost its DTC Business 150%

Retail TouchPoints

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. Once the pandemic hit, our wholesalers had to close their stores, and we had to rethink our entire email plan,” said Florin.

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Maison de Sabre makes its bricks-and-mortar debut in Japan

Inside Retail

Brothers Omar and Zane Sabré (l to r) started the accessories label in 2017. Since launching in 2017, Maison de Sabré has grown into a multi-million dollar global accessories business with dedicated e-commerce sites in Australia and New Zealand, Japan and the US, and an international site that ships to customers around the world.

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What is Direct-to-Consumer and How to Balance D2C with Wholesale

Wiser

As we explored in our eBook, “ The Wholesale Brand Disruption Guide ,” direct-to-consumer is defined as “the marketing and selling of products directly to consumers from the brand manufacturer.” percent of all retail growth in 2017, and eCommerce sales increased by 16.4 What Does Direct to Consumer Mean?

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How Aussie footwear brand Alias Mae stays on trend in a fast-moving market

Inside Retail

Drawing on his family background in footwear, and his own experience in the industry, having started working in Chinese footwear manufacturing in 2011, he launched Alias Mae as a wholesale business. IR: You started as the customer service and wholesale manager, how have you witnessed the brand’s evolution in your time at the company?

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