Archive for October, 2009

Global E-Commerce Summits Hightlights Part 2

Below are more highlights from the Global E-Commerce Summit, which was held October 26-28 in Monaco and where digital retail executives from more than 20 countries convened to learn, explore and network. Click here for pictures from the event. Kate Terry, EVP Global Ecommerce, Tommy Hilfiger USA. Kate, who has deep e-commerce experience from companies [...]

Global E-Commerce Summit Day 1 Morning Session

Today was the first full day of the 2nd annual Global E-Commerce Summit held in the amazing Grimaldi Forum in beautiful Monaco.  Below are highlights from the morning sessions. Click here for pictures from the event. François Momboisse Vice President of EMOTA and Susanne Czech, Secretary General of EMOTA, opened the Summit and shared data on [...]

Talking with…Matt Rubel, CEO of Collective Brands

In the constant push-and-pull between retailers and manufacturers, we thought it might be interesting for our next Talking With… to feature an executive from a company with both groups under the same umbrella. So we reached out to Matt Rubel, Chairman, CEO and President of Collective Brands, a company that includes both a retailer (Payless) [...]

Research: eHoliday ’09 pre-holiday results

They’re in – the pre-holiday consumer and merchant results of the 2009 Shop.org eHoliday Study (conducted with our partner, BIGresearch) are now available from the Shop.org Web site. The summary offers so much data to peruse that I could go on for pages about all that merchants have done to prepare, what they plan to [...]

Ten holiday trends to watch this year

NRF has released its list of ten holiday trends to watch. Among them: Americans don’t believe the recession is over, sales and promotions are king, and gift cards still reign as the most popular gift to receive. The most interesting trend for the online folks is likely this one: #8: When looking at store sales, [...]

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