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From Niche Product to Viral Sensation: How Bogg Bag Ventured into 1,800 Target Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Vaccarella is no stranger to retail — Bogg has wholesale partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops , among others — and she has mastered a model in which the brand develops exclusive designs tailored to each partner’s shopper base. We started doing trade shows and focused on wholesale.

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Here’s why discount luxury business Azura Fashion Group is going circular

Inside Retail

The business helps luxury brands, distributors and wholesalers clear end-of-line and off-season products through online marketplaces, such as Farfetch, Net-A-Porter, Vestiaire Collective and The Iconic, as well as its own e-commerce site, Azura Runway. “We’re Luxury’s discount problem. Rising opportunity in resale .

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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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Under Armour Begins Search for New CEO as Frisk Steps Down

Retail TouchPoints

The company underwent several rounds of jobs cuts and a $200 million dollar restructuring in 2018, followed by an SEC investigation into its accounting practices in 2019. Frisk promptly set about shifting the company’s focus away from wholesale and toward DTC, following in the footsteps of competitors in the space like Nike and lululemon.

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Amazon to close physical bookstores, focus on groceries

Inside Retail

Meanwhile, the Amazon 4-star concept was introduced in 2018 with a focus on selling general merchandise rated higher than four stars by its customers. Nevertheless, the company has concluded that they are not delivering the returns – monetarily or in terms of what they are doing for the wider company – to justify keeping them open.

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Rough Week for Retail CEOs: Top Execs Out at Petco, Under Armour, Fossil

Retail TouchPoints

Founder Kevin Plank Returns to Lead Under Armour Kevin Plank will return to Under Armour as the company’s President and CEO, effective April 1, 2024. ” Wall Street seems to be less enthused about the company’s future, however, with shares of Under Armour plunging on the news of Plank’s return to the helm.

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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 year-over-year from early 2017 to the start of 2018. What Does Direct to Consumer Mean? Another is pricing.