)The platform economy!
The big news of the week is Mirakl raising $300M for it’s Marketplace SAAS Platform. Basically, the company help you launch and manage your own marketplace on your e-commerce
website! The company has more than 300 customers including BestBuy, Carrefour, Toyota, HP…etc…!
An Unicorn is born in Paris (They are French, nobody is perfect
J) at a valuation of 1.5Bln!
Another sign of the huge momentum on ecommerce!
Also…
Nike online sales boom +82%!
Zalando entering re-sale market
Walmart preparing for peak!
E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M
Mirakl raises $300 million for its marketplace platform
The big news of the week is Mirakl raising $300M for it’s Marketplace SAAS Platform. Basically, the company help you launch and manage your own marketplace on your e-commerce
website! The company has more than 300 customers including BestBuy, Carrefour, Toyota, HP…etc…!
An Unicorn is born in Paris (They are French, nobody is perfect
J) at a valuation of 1.5Bln!
Another sign of the huge momentum on ecommerce!
Nike’s online business is booming — ‘digital is here to stay,’ CEO says
Digital sales at Nike soared 82% during the last quarter! Even with most stores open! Amazing no?
Before Covid-19, Nike had set a goal of having its e-commerce sales represent 30% of total revenue by 2023. But it has already exceeded that. Nike now plan to have 50%
of sales online, that’s huge and they are on track to reach it!
Just Do it!
Zalando enters resale market with launch of Pre-owned category
This should not come as a surprise! Resale market or Recommerce is hot hot hot! Zalando being one of the most committed company to sustainability, entering into the resale
market is key to demonstrate further their commitment to sustainability! But also because some major competitors like H&M have already moved into the space…
Walmart hiring 20K in e-commerce ops for the holidays
Q4 is the busiest quarter for all the retailers, this is what we call “the peak season”.
This year, it will be particularly busy as many consumers will want to avoid the crowded stores and buy online.
Walmart is preparing for this and hiring 20K people!
In the coming weeks, we will see online sales volume like never before. Be ready for delays and don’t wait till the last minute to buy your gifts…
StartUp Of The week: Whitebox
E-commerce platform Whitebox raises $18M
Whitebox ecommerce platform just raised $18M to grow its presence. The company business model combine tools for managing e-commerce listings across a variety of marketplaces
with the ability to store and ship products from its own warehouse spaces across the United States. Interesting combination and another ecommerce startup taking advantage of the ecommerce boom!
Cheers
Nabil
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