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The Very Group appoints Lionel Desclée as group CEO

365 Retail

The Very Group, operator of multicategory digital retailers Very and Littlewoods, has appointed former president and CEO of Walmart Japan Lionel Desclée as group CEO. Before joining Walmart, Lionel spent three years as president and CEO of Tom & Co, which operates over 160 pet care stores in Belgium, Luxembourg and France.

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Afterpay vs Klarna vs Affirm: Which Buy Now Pay Later Service is Best for Your Shopify Business?

AcquireConvert

You pay a small fee to the app service and a small commission on each sale while the app service sets up the payment plan with the customer and collects what’s owing to them. Affirm is now (since June 2021) “baked” into the Shopify Pay service under a formal partnership but that doesn’t mean you have to use Affirm as a merchant.

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The Marketer’s Guide to Gain Brand Mileage on Google Maps

Kissmetrics

Searches including the phrase “best place to buy” with the applicable product or service keyword grew by 70% between 2015 and 2018. After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. The verification process takes a few days, as Google wants to make sure you are who you say.

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Neiman Marcus kicks the can down the road. So now what?

Steve Dennis

When the company went through its second private-equity-led leveraged buyout in 2013 (note: I was the head of strategy and multichannel marketing during the first, in 2005), the new owners clearly overpaid and saddled the company with interest payments that constrain the company’s ability to execute a long overdue transformation.

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Your Quick Start Guide to Cross-Border Ecommerce in China, India & The Middle East

BigCommerce

Store sells and acts on the behalf of a multi-brand marketplace (service class trademark) owned by the merchant opening the store . Instead, the application costs for non-Chinese merchants looking to start an official store on WeChat are $1,300 (USD) and can take up to 4 months to process. Service Accounts. Service Accounts.