January 12, 2023
Building The House of LR&C Apparel Brand Takes More Than...
Experienced leadership is always valuable and having a few crises under your belt never hurts. That’s the message from Christine Day, CEO of fashion brand The House of LR&C, the apparel company...
December 28, 2022
Solo Brands CEO Seeks to Separate Rising Sales From Slumping...
By most measures, the four core businesses of newly listed Solo Brands are growing sales in a sluggish economy and enjoying solid customer retention and return rates. Compare that to...
December 27, 2022
Subscription and Digital Commerce DTCs Seen Facing Continued Headwinds
Direct-to-consumer subscription providers and digital commerce brands aren’t out of the woods yet. After a year of hardships and headwinds, those merchants betting on long-term profitability could be in for...
December 27, 2022
CE 100 Index Slips 2.3% as Tesla Shares Continue Skid
The 18% slide in Tesla shares this past week was symptomatic of some of the headwinds facing the Connected Economy stocks this past year. Disruptive technology, yes. But there are...
December 20, 2022
Harming Competition and Consumers Under The Guise of Protecting Privacy:...
Apple proposed the new “App Tracking Transparency” (“ATT”) policy in November 2020 and required all apps to have this feature enabled on April 26, 2021, which was the beta release...
December 19, 2022
Nike Tries to Outrun Snags With D2C and Concept Retail
Nike shoes are running hard as the famed footwear brand hustles to reverse a 2022 slide. As the Oregon-based athletic footwear, apparel and equipment maker gets set to report fiscal...
December 12, 2022
Grill Maker Weber to Go Private and Get $350M Loan
Grill maker Weber is to go private with its planned acquisition by BDT Capital Partners. Subject to customary conditions, the 70-year-old company is being acquired for $8.05 per share — implying a $3.7...
November 08, 2022
Disney Looks to ’24 for Profits from Streaming Service
Disney+ has boosted its number of paid subscribers by 20% in the United States and Canada and by 57% internationally over the last year, The Walt Disney Company said Tuesday...
October 13, 2022
Shoplazza Adds PayerMax Collection Solutions to eCommerce Platform
Singapore-based global payments solution PayerMax and Canada-based global eCommerce platform Shoplazza have partnered to provide Shoplazza merchants with payment collection processes and other FinTech services. With this partnership, PayerMax’s collection,...