Entrepreneur

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For 2018 trends, we asked an expert on what entrepreneurs can expect this coming year in e-commerce.  For merchants and retailers, ecommerce automation has started to become a huge deal, and companies leveraging it have a massive competitive advantag

Powder

1 min. di lettura

One more thing: Talking gear with an actual human being. Ever since the traditional ski-shop business model—buy a lot of product and hope to sell it for twice as much—ran into the e-commerce meat grinder a decade ago, it has only gotten tougher for s

Marketing

2 min. di lettura

There has been much discussion of the future of physical retail. Can it survive and thrive with the threat of ecommerce? Are we to see the death of bricks and mortar retail trading in the near future as online purchasing becomes the norm? The debate

Working Mother

2 min. di lettura

Mapping out an eCommerce business plan might not be as difficult as you previously thought. Pexels Over the past few years, there has been a major paradigm shift in the world of retail. Most people are aware of the massive shift in the way we buy thi

Entrepreneur

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In the fall of 2008, after years of beating himself up playing football and lacrosse, Joe Kudla took up yoga. But he couldn’t find much to wear. “Out of 17 million people doing yoga, six million were men—the fastest-growing demographic,” says the 40-

American Survival Guide

1 min. di lettura

How much are you willing to pay for your survival? This is an important question you should ask yourself before you purchase any type of survival gear. Is it better to make your purchases at a surplus store, department store or an outdoor specialty s

Los Angeles Times

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LOS ANGELES - Evett's Model Shop has gotten unusual requests over its 71 years of operation, but few have been as weird as the one in January from YouTube car comedy channel Donut Media: Help a Bugatti built from Lego bricks go really fast, maybe eve

Entrepreneur

2 min. di lettura

In a mobile economy, being able to simply process credit cards is no longer enough. Here's what to look for as you search for a payment-system provider.

Lebanon Opportunities

5 min. di lettura

Local e-commerce platforms are growing and are an appealing investment. Investors are allocating large budgets to disrupt the market and shift consumer behavior towards online purchases. They are preparing large digital marketing campaigns to generat

Cycling Weekly

1 min. di lettura

Clothing brand Santini has factories in Italy and supplies kit around the world. We asked them how coronavirus was affecting business: “Our factories are open, in compliance with all the restrictions and rules applied according to government laws. St

Entrepreneur

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Old idea: Carefully curated products New idea: More options at lower cost When the pandemic forced Christina Stembel to change her business, she was horrified. Then she was relieved. And now she has a stronger business as a result. Stembel is the fou

Cannabis & Tech Today

4 min. di lettura

Whether you run a brick-n-mortar storefront or an e-commerce site, the past few months have likely altered your business in profound ways. Tens of millions of people across the globe have tested positive for COVID-19 and those numbers continue to ris

Business Today

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Alcoholic beverage-maker Diageo India has announced that it would be making hand sanitisers as part of its pledge to fight the deadly Covid-19 virus. The company’s Chief Strategy and Corporate Officer, Abanti Sankaranarayanan, in a LinkedIn post, say

True Love

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Zulzi is an on-demand delivery platform where busy people can order groceries from all major retailers and get them delivered to their doorstep within an hour. This business used to be an e-commerce platform, where we sold books and electronics to st

Entrepreneur

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Lesson: Stand out when others aren’t. In 2018, Nikki Howard worked in recruitment at the FDA and Jaqi Wright (right) was an analyst at the Department of Justice. But in December, the sisters were both furloughed in what turned out to be the longest g

Great Walks

4 min. di lettura

AS I write these words, the COVID-19 pandemic is in full swing. Aside from the obvious health consequences, we outdoor enthusiasts are suffering from cabin fever, a condition that usually finds temporary relief in the buying of random outdoor gear fo

Singapore Tatler

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“We are looking beyond the 40th year and into the future,” shared The Hour Glass group managing director Michael Tay, who embraces an optimistic outlook on what lies ahead for the watchmaking industry. The trade has changed vastly, but 40 years into

Beijing Review

4 min. di lettura

The author is a U.S.-based author, consultant and op-ed contributor to Beijing Review The growth, scale and scope of the novel coronavirus outbreak in China has become one of the most talked about global subjects. The virus is first and foremost a do

Ski Magazine

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TIM GLEESON IS A SELF-PROCLAIMED GEAR geek. And a ski-industry lifer. Among other jobs, he was with Nordica for more than 20 years, and for the past dozen or so years has been the head of hardgoods at the sprawling Danzeisen & Quigley sports shop in

Evening Standard

7 min. di lettura

This week, retail investors finally got the first chance to buy shares in The Hut Group, the giant online retailer and Internet shopping outsourcer for giant companies like Procter & Gamble and Coca-Cola. To say its arrival stirred up excitement in t

Forbes Africa

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WHEN ZADOK PRESCOTT FIRST STARTED the home delivery application, Piki Tanzania, he only thought of it as a supplement to restaurant dining. However, when Tanzania also fell victim to the Covid-19 crisis in March, Piki, which was still new and the onl

MoneyWeek

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Online sales accounted for 35% of all retail sales in the UK last month, an all-time high. But retailers who assume this percentage will fall back once the Covid-19 lockdown comes to an end may be making a costly mistake. Analyst Retail Economics est

Kitchens & Bathrooms Quarterly

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Renovating your kitchen can be a costly exercise, so it’s only natural you’ll want to install the very best appliances. Kitchens are only renovated every 15 years on average, so it’s important to choose products that will stand the test of time. How

(inside) interior design review

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PTID has designed the new head office for Supre, located at Chadstone, Melbourne’s fashion mecca. The Cotton On Group acquired Supre in 2013, and the decision to create a stand-alone headquarters for the brand was important for Australia’s largest gl

Australasian Transport News (ATN)

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Established a decade ago by founder and managing director Leigh Williams, eStore Logistics is changing its game by investing in a robotics automation solution that will help support faster deliveries. The fulfilment company is ramping up its distribu

The Christian Science Monitor

4 min. di lettura

Peter Böhmer reopened the village store in his German home of Farchant a few years ago, and it has been going gangbusters ever since.

Los Angeles Times

3 min. di lettura

Shaun Pennington, 39, is president of Diamond Mattress, his family's 80-year-old company, which is facing major disruption in a traditionally sleepy industry. In the past decade, technology to flatten full-size mattresses like pancakes for easier shi

Lapidary Journal Jewelry Artist

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After a decade where many art jewelry galleries shuttered as owners retired and online sales took off, new ones are popping up around the country, manned by a new generation of makers. Hilary Halstead began to notice a trend a couple years ago while

Farmer's Weekly

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“As alluring as our old ‘normal’ was, and after being forced to adapt and overcome the ruptures to our routine that came with COVID-19, was that ‘normal’ really good enough?” This was the question asked by Cathy Burns, CEO of the Produce Marketing As

Woman & Home South Africa

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CHARLOTTE WARD, 40, is a freelance journalist and author who moved across the world to settle with her husband Jeff in South Carolina, USA. “Staring out of the bus window, I felt tears welling. I’d lived in the same place for seven years, and althou