Category: Retail Development

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Insights into selling consumer packaged goods online
Retail Development

Selling Consumer Packaged Goods online

Insights into selling consumer packaged goods online (CPG). Digital disruptors like Amazon have forced more traditional brick-and-mortar businesses to rise and adapt in a variety of ways.

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Understanding the multichannel conundrum
Retail Development

Understanding the multichannel conundrum

Understanding the multichannel conundrum. Today, roughly 95% of the population owns a smartphone, as mobile sales have rocketed from 15% to 75% in the last five years. It is therefore clear that multichannel is changing the way we live, communicate and shop. Consumers are looking for the ideal mix of online convenience and in-store expertise. For […]

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Cosmetics Marketing and Ecommerce
Retail Development

Cosmetics Marketing and Ecommerce

cosmetics marketing: Long controlled by legacy conglomerates, the beauty industry has been rocked by having to turn online. Once “challenger” brands like IPSY, Glossier, and Fenty Beauty are now household names — spanning geographies and demographics alike. Entrepreneurs rush to greet a new wave of consumers seeking fresh norms and niche products. Clinging to enterprise status, large-scale manufacturers responded by acquiring […]

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SwiftERM guide to ecommerce acronyms
Retail Development

SwiftERM guide to ecommerce acronyms

Ecommerce marketing has its own specialised business language, which is constantly evolving, meaning every time you think you’ve got your head around the lingo, a new term pops up to confuse you again. At SwiftERM, we try to keep things as jargon-free as possible. However, we also know there’s no skirting around the fact that […]

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Wine DTC opportunities to take advantage of
Retail Development

Wine DTC opportunities to take advantage of

Reading the stats and data from the wine industry sales this year, you could be forgiven for believing it is anything but gloriously successful to be in the wine business right now. Of course, apart from those still loitering under the misapprehension that retail alone will prevail, the big winners are those heavily into ecommerce sales, those that are […]

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