E-commerce
5 tips for selling your e-commerce business to an Amazon aggregator
In recent years, Amazon sellers have become a hot commodity. Growing a business on Amazon is more challenging and aggregators are taking the opportunity to snatch up promising and successful businesses while using their expertise to clean up the marketplace. Selling your e-commerce business to an Amazon aggregator can pay off, but only if you […]
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Alibaba shares drop 8% after Jack Ma’s Ant Group and regulator squash talk of revived IPO
Ant Group, founded by billionaire Jack Ma, scrapped its IPO in November 2020 after regulators flagged concerns with the company. Since then, the company has been ordered to rectify its business. Ant Group said that a revived IPO is not on the cards yet. Costfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images Alibaba shares dropped 8% […]
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Shares of Shopee-owner Sea surge 14% after stronger-than-expected revenue
Singapore, Singapore – 2021: A large Shopee logo at the entrance to the e-commerce platform’s headquarters at Science Park. (Exact photography date unknown due to incorrect camera settings) Kokkai | Istock Unreleased | Getty Images Shares of Southeast Asia’s e-commerce and gaming firm Sea Group popped after its first-quarter revenue beat analysts’ expectations on Tuesday. […]
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Chinese e-commerce giant JD beats estimates despite slowest quarterly revenue growth on record
Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth on record for the first three months of the year, as Covid-19 lockdowns in the world’s second-largest economy weighed on consumer spending. JD.com beat estimates on revenue but missed expectations on profit. Here’s how JD did in the first quarter of 2022, versus Refinitiv consensus […]
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Just Eat Takeaway is exploring a sale of Grubhub barely a year after buying the company
The Grubhub logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Rafael Henrique | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images European food delivery giant Just Eat Takeaway.com said it’s considering a sale of Grubhub, its U.S. arm, after facing pressure from investors to explore strategic deals. Just Eat Takeaway.com’s board “confirms its alignment with shareholders in wanting […]
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How an Etsy founder turned ice cream maker feels about the DIY e-commerce platform today
Executives of Etsy applaud as they open the Nasdaq MarketSite ahead of Etsy’s initial public offering in New York, April 16, 2015. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images In this weekly series, CNBC takes a look at companies that made the inaugural Disruptor 50 list, 10 years later. In 2005, Chris Maguire, Jared Tarbell, […]
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Rent the Runway CEO sees inflation as a competitive advantage for the company
Rent the Runway sees the more than 2 million weddings planned for this year, and all the parties that come with them, as being a massive boon to its business. Plus, according to co-founder and Chief Executive Jennifer Hyman, Rent the Runway is reaping the benefits of consumers seeking value and stability during times of […]
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Amazon warehouse workers suffer serious injuries at twice the rate of rivals, study finds
An Amazon warehouse Getty Images Amazon warehouse workers in the U.S. suffered serious injuries at twice the rate of rival companies in 2021, according to a new study. There were 6.8 serious injuries for every 100 Amazon warehouse workers. That’s more than twice the rate of all other employers in the warehouse industry, which had […]
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Fanatics wants to be a $100 billion company – here’s how it plans to get there
Michael Rubin arrives at the 2019 Fanatics Super Bowl Party on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019, in Atlanta. Paul R. Giunta | Invision | AP Sports e-commerce company Fanatics is growing quickly, but it’s still nowhere near where it aims to be. Recently, the company said, it reached a $27 billion valuation and it wants to […]
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How Amazon plans to fix its massive returns problem
Amazon is handling a rapidly growing number of returns that are causing a massive problem for the e-commerce giant and the planet. A National Retail Federation survey found a record $761 billion of merchandise was returned to retailers in 2021. That amount surpasses what the U.S. spent on national defense in 2021, which was $741 […]
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