E-commerce costs too much, won’t make a difference to a distributor’s bottom line, and isn’t worth much more than brand promotion. Right? Not so fast, say SAP’s David Koenig and Mirakl’s Angela Troccoli. Is there a timeframe for e-commerce implementation? Can distributors get more out of their online presence beyond brand recognition? During a recent MDM […]
By Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl Consumer shopping habits have shifted irreversibly towards eCommerce in the past two years. For many, every day has become a holiday as new packages arrive from their favorite online retailers. One surprising aspect of this shift is how retailers have adapted their businesses in response. According to […]
By Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl, and Forbes Councils Member Courtesy of Getty Images The story of American retail is often framed in terms of David and Goliath. There is arguably no greater example of the “American dream” than a successful small business, a local mom-and-pop store, that serves its loyal customers a unique product […]
Don’t let common challenges like silos and change management slow your organization’s digital transformation success Written by Adrien Nussenbaum While enterprise executives have been thinking about digital transformation for years, the past 12 months have seen massive acceleration. There is now broad consensus that digital innovation is necessary for survival. But success is far from guaranteed. Past […]
Decathlon UK are delighted to invite new Partners to join its marketplace, bringing together a specially curated selection of brands to help make sport more accessible to the many. Decathlon’s new marketplace will enable the company to capitalise on this growth and meet rapidly evolving consumer demand. Its online marketplace, powered by the Mirakl Marketplace […]
Family-owned delivered food wholesaler Turner Price has launched the UK’s first wholesale B2B foodservice marketplace to give caterers instant access to more than 10,000 new products, with the ability to scale rapidly to meet growing customer expectations. Read the full article on Internet Retailing
Do you believe the next generation of tech giants will be European? At Scale-Up Europe, we do. That’s why, a few days ago, our group of stakeholders from across the world of European technology innovation presented a shared ambition for the continent to house 10 technology companies valued more than €100bn by 2030. Read the full […]
Brands are opening up to third-party sellers to draw shoppers to their sites—and away from Amazon’s marketplace Express Inc., best known as a presence in American malls, has been testing a new strategy: selling other brands’ merchandise online. Visitors to the retailer’s website can shop for items from dozens of other brands in addition to […]
Foodservice wholesaler Turner Price has launched a third-party marketplace for suppliers, with the ambition of listing 50,000 SKUs within a year. The family-owned business has worked with Mirakl – which powers marketplaces for Carrefour, Auchan and Kroger, among others – to quietly launch the platform earlier this month. Since launch, the range available through the […]
Already ubiquitous across retailers’ e-commerce sites, the marketplace model is taking hold in the B2B salon industry. On Wednesday, L’Oréal USA’s B2B retailer SalonCentric announced a new marketplace on its website. Slated to roll out in September, the e-commerce feature will triple the site’s product selection offered to salons and stylists. “Our mission is really to help […]
If you’ve noticed a lot of new third-party marketplaces popping up lately, you’re not imagining things. More and more retailers are jumping on the marketplace bandwagon — Lands’ End, Hudson’s Bay and Woolworths in Australia are just a few of the new entrants this year alone. They join a growing roster of retailers that are expanding their online reach […]
Amazon has been creating and destroying businesses throughout its 30-year history, making its founder the richest man on the planet. And the onset of the Pandemic only made Amazon’s eCommerce platform all the more powerful. Is it possible for companies to survive and transform their eCommerce business to become more like Amazon themselves? Tech entrepreneur […]
The third-party marketplace model is quietly sweeping the wholesale sector. While some smaller wholesalers, like foodservice supplier Turner Price, have found thriving niches by betting on e-commerce, many largest wholesalers remained wary of the model. But the marketplace approach received a high-profile endorsement from United Natural Foods Inc — one of the country’s largest grocery wholesalers […]
Under the shadow of all the growth, public offerings, and hype surrounding mammoth marketplace platforms like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, Farfetch and Shopify, there’s a fast-growing subset of smaller ones emerging around the world. Express, Hudson’s Bay, Best Buy, Stadium Goods, Lands’ End, Crate & Barrel, Urban Outfitters and StockX are among the scores of marketplaces […]
Click Frenzy is announcing the launch of its new online marketplace – Frenz Central – which aims to launch in the first half of 2021. Here’s everything you need to know. Click Frenzy, the online sales event that launched in 2012, is set to launch a new digital marketplace as a destination for the platform’s […]
Today Mirakl, the industry’s first and most advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, announced La Redoute, French leader in eCommerce in fashion and home decoration, has chosen Mirakl to accelerate its marketplace initiative. By transitioning the marketplace business onto the Mirakl Marketplace Platform, La Redoute will strengthen the development of the brand in France through laredoute.fr, accelerate […]
Innovation breeds innovation, and as consumers have increasingly taken advantage of the digital-first tools available to them in the past year or so, their expectations for digital commerce options that offer convenience, immediacy, and an expansive selection have only increased, prompting businesses to find creative ways to meet these evolving needs. To that end, wholesaler […]
Mirakl’s co-founder and U.S. CEO Adrien Nussenbaum on how the COVID-19 pandemic lit the fuse for eCommerce marketplace acceleration. An ocean of ink has been written about COVID-19’s impact on ecommerce, an endless stream of op-eds, surveys and analyses on how industries have shifted irreversibly to digital. These essays tend to focus on retail’s triumphs […]
Community Marketplace by UNFI expands supplier, retailer access to distributor’s offering United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) has gone live with a business-to-business digital wholesale marketplace called Community Marketplace by UNFI. Providence, R.I.-based UNFI said Wednesday that Community Marketplace enables thousands of emerging products not currently available at its distribution centers to be ordered on UNFI’s Easy Options […]
The Toronto-based retailer’s marketplace strategy brings a broader assortment to thebay.com and expectations of capturing a much wider Canadian audience. Hudson’s Bay has transformed its e-commerce website into a marketplace format, which launches today with an assortment augmented by nearly 300 brands and many categories never before carried by the Canadian retailer. By the end […]
5 Misconceptions Distributors Have About E-Commerce Platforms
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaE-commerce costs too much, won’t make a difference to a distributor’s bottom line, and isn’t worth much more than brand promotion. Right? Not so fast, say SAP’s David Koenig and Mirakl’s Angela Troccoli. Is there a timeframe for e-commerce implementation? Can distributors get more out of their online presence beyond brand recognition? During a recent MDM […]
Why Online Marketplaces are Outpacing Ecommerce in a Post-COVID World
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaBy Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl Consumer shopping habits have shifted irreversibly towards eCommerce in the past two years. For many, every day has become a holiday as new packages arrive from their favorite online retailers. One surprising aspect of this shift is how retailers have adapted their businesses in response. According to […]
Big And Small Businesses Can Work Together To Solve Retail Availability Challenges
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaBy Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-founder and CEO of Mirakl, and Forbes Councils Member Courtesy of Getty Images The story of American retail is often framed in terms of David and Goliath. There is arguably no greater example of the “American dream” than a successful small business, a local mom-and-pop store, that serves its loyal customers a unique product […]
Digital transformation: 3 post-pandemic best practices
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaDon’t let common challenges like silos and change management slow your organization’s digital transformation success Written by Adrien Nussenbaum While enterprise executives have been thinking about digital transformation for years, the past 12 months have seen massive acceleration. There is now broad consensus that digital innovation is necessary for survival. But success is far from guaranteed. Past […]
Decathlon UK opens its website to selected new Partners in health and sport
/Press Coverage Optional /by Louise Desgrées du loûDecathlon UK are delighted to invite new Partners to join its marketplace, bringing together a specially curated selection of brands to help make sport more accessible to the many. Decathlon’s new marketplace will enable the company to capitalise on this growth and meet rapidly evolving consumer demand. Its online marketplace, powered by the Mirakl Marketplace […]
Turner Price launches the UK’s first B2B foodservice marketplace
/Press Coverage Optional /by Louise Desgrées du loûFamily-owned delivered food wholesaler Turner Price has launched the UK’s first wholesale B2B foodservice marketplace to give caterers instant access to more than 10,000 new products, with the ability to scale rapidly to meet growing customer expectations. Read the full article on Internet Retailing
Europe’s bid for global tech leadership: the time is now or never
/Press Coverage Optional /by Louise Desgrées du loûDo you believe the next generation of tech giants will be European? At Scale-Up Europe, we do. That’s why, a few days ago, our group of stakeholders from across the world of European technology innovation presented a shared ambition for the continent to house 10 technology companies valued more than €100bn by 2030. Read the full […]
Why Express, Urban Outfitters and J.Crew Now Sell Items From All Over Online
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaBrands are opening up to third-party sellers to draw shoppers to their sites—and away from Amazon’s marketplace Express Inc., best known as a presence in American malls, has been testing a new strategy: selling other brands’ merchandise online. Visitors to the retailer’s website can shop for items from dozens of other brands in addition to […]
Wholesaler Turner Price launches ‘UK’s first foodservice marketplace’
/Press Coverage Optional /by Louise Desgrées du loûFoodservice wholesaler Turner Price has launched a third-party marketplace for suppliers, with the ambition of listing 50,000 SKUs within a year. The family-owned business has worked with Mirakl – which powers marketplaces for Carrefour, Auchan and Kroger, among others – to quietly launch the platform earlier this month. Since launch, the range available through the […]
L’Oréal’s SalonCentric brings marketplace model to B2B e-commerce
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaAlready ubiquitous across retailers’ e-commerce sites, the marketplace model is taking hold in the B2B salon industry. On Wednesday, L’Oréal USA’s B2B retailer SalonCentric announced a new marketplace on its website. Slated to roll out in September, the e-commerce feature will triple the site’s product selection offered to salons and stylists. “Our mission is really to help […]
Are Third-Party Marketplaces the Growth Driver Legacy Retail is Looking for?
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaIf you’ve noticed a lot of new third-party marketplaces popping up lately, you’re not imagining things. More and more retailers are jumping on the marketplace bandwagon — Lands’ End, Hudson’s Bay and Woolworths in Australia are just a few of the new entrants this year alone. They join a growing roster of retailers that are expanding their online reach […]
Mirakl Achieves Unicorn Status By Helping Companies Become Like Amazon
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaAmazon has been creating and destroying businesses throughout its 30-year history, making its founder the richest man on the planet. And the onset of the Pandemic only made Amazon’s eCommerce platform all the more powerful. Is it possible for companies to survive and transform their eCommerce business to become more like Amazon themselves? Tech entrepreneur […]
Wholesalers Are Testing out Digital Marketplaces
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaThe third-party marketplace model is quietly sweeping the wholesale sector. While some smaller wholesalers, like foodservice supplier Turner Price, have found thriving niches by betting on e-commerce, many largest wholesalers remained wary of the model. But the marketplace approach received a high-profile endorsement from United Natural Foods Inc — one of the country’s largest grocery wholesalers […]
Mounting Marketplaces: Game Changers, but No Slam Dunk
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaUnder the shadow of all the growth, public offerings, and hype surrounding mammoth marketplace platforms like Amazon, Walmart, Alibaba, Farfetch and Shopify, there’s a fast-growing subset of smaller ones emerging around the world. Express, Hudson’s Bay, Best Buy, Stadium Goods, Lands’ End, Crate & Barrel, Urban Outfitters and StockX are among the scores of marketplaces […]
“It’s Time!” Click Frenzy Launches Marketplace, Frenz Central
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaClick Frenzy is announcing the launch of its new online marketplace – Frenz Central – which aims to launch in the first half of 2021. Here’s everything you need to know. Click Frenzy, the online sales event that launched in 2012, is set to launch a new digital marketplace as a destination for the platform’s […]
La Redoute selects Mirakl to accelerate development of marketplace
/Press Coverage Optional /by Louise Desgrées du loûToday Mirakl, the industry’s first and most advanced enterprise marketplace SaaS platform, announced La Redoute, French leader in eCommerce in fashion and home decoration, has chosen Mirakl to accelerate its marketplace initiative. By transitioning the marketplace business onto the Mirakl Marketplace Platform, La Redoute will strengthen the development of the brand in France through laredoute.fr, accelerate […]
Mirakl Predicts The Marketplace-Led Future Of Online Grocery
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaInnovation breeds innovation, and as consumers have increasingly taken advantage of the digital-first tools available to them in the past year or so, their expectations for digital commerce options that offer convenience, immediacy, and an expansive selection have only increased, prompting businesses to find creative ways to meet these evolving needs. To that end, wholesaler […]
Post Disruption, Ecommerce Marketplaces Are Here to Stay
/Press Coverage Optional /by Austin FontanellaMirakl’s co-founder and U.S. CEO Adrien Nussenbaum on how the COVID-19 pandemic lit the fuse for eCommerce marketplace acceleration. An ocean of ink has been written about COVID-19’s impact on ecommerce, an endless stream of op-eds, surveys and analyses on how industries have shifted irreversibly to digital. These essays tend to focus on retail’s triumphs […]
UNFI launches online wholesale digital marketplace
/Press Coverage Optional /by Sara MatasciCommunity Marketplace by UNFI expands supplier, retailer access to distributor’s offering United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) has gone live with a business-to-business digital wholesale marketplace called Community Marketplace by UNFI. Providence, R.I.-based UNFI said Wednesday that Community Marketplace enables thousands of emerging products not currently available at its distribution centers to be ordered on UNFI’s Easy Options […]
Hudson’s Bay Launches an Online Marketplace
/Press Coverage Optional /by Sara MatasciThe Toronto-based retailer’s marketplace strategy brings a broader assortment to thebay.com and expectations of capturing a much wider Canadian audience. Hudson’s Bay has transformed its e-commerce website into a marketplace format, which launches today with an assortment augmented by nearly 300 brands and many categories never before carried by the Canadian retailer. By the end […]