The one thing brands can control is their online sales channel. From checkout to last mile delivery, DTC brands can ensure a seamless ecommerce experience. With the majority of Q4 and holiday shopping expected to shift online, brands must have their entire ecommerce channel prepared for an optimal customer experience.
It began in 2009 as two cousins selling winter outwear from their uncle’s company at mall kiosks and fairs in the Philadelphia area. Today, JustBrand Ltd is a successful stable of innovative, interrelated seasonal apparel products.
Learn how the founders launched the company, added brands, grew and expanded into new channels.
Companies that are resistant or slow to change face real threats from the emergence of a new group of DTC brands, boosted by technology, that can deliver a complete end-to-end customer experience. Laggards need to address their operations urgently, or risk being digitally leapfrogged and left behind by the pack of hungry DTCs.
NBCUniversal’s new instant checkout service for its shoppable content lets consumers click and buy products they see across the media company’s broadcast and online properties, giving brands an opportunity to sell during a time when stores are shut down. Shoppers can make purchases without abandoning their program.
Brand investment platform Go Global has closed its acquisition of women’s retro fashion brand Modcloth from Walmart, announced last fall, with financing from Tiger Capital Group. Go Global managing director Jeff Streader talks to Multichannel Merchant about Modcloth’s distinctiveness and the importance of listening to customers.
Calling out Amazon for destroying brand differentiation and citing customers’ demands that brands be wherever they want them, real estate venture firm Fifth Wall closed a $100 million fund to help digital natives add stores. The fund is backed by some of the largest retail real estate owners and service providers in the U.S. and abroad.
Luxury swimwear brand Andie, sports drink BodyArmor and cruelty-free cosmetics provider Wander Beauty are new additions on the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s 2020 edition of its 250 Brands to Watch list, recognizing the most disruptive and influential DTC brands in the U.S. IAB analyzed 3,500-plus brands and services.
Direct-to-customer (DTC) brands continued their ascension in 2019 with more than 40% of American consumers making DTC purchases, according to a new report from Diffusion PR. Legacy brands have caught the wave by either acquiring their own DTC brands or investing in their own capabilities.
Shopping fulfillment center venture ShopFulfill will give digitally native DTC brands a physical presence by Q2 2020 in two prime East Coast locations, downtown Philadelphia and a mall in Moorestown, NJ. Its Anchor Shops will integrate retail storefronts with distribution networks for multiple brands.
It’s hard to think of an apparel category that’s more competitive than jeans, with many legacy and upstart brands vying for casual fashion dollars. In this MCM CommerceChat podcast, Revtown co-founder Henry Stafford talks about the company’s disruptive approach, recent partnership moves, DTC roots and where it’s headed.