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Yami made home a little closer
A two-hour grocery trip gave Alex Zhou an idea. Yami turned that inconvenience into an Asian shopping destination - and a route into America for the brands on its shelves.
Blu Boutique’s $14.99 lesson in selling an outfit
A graphic tank, a pair of plaid pants, and a surprisingly useful set of measurements. Blu Boutique’s clothing listings offer a small lesson in making fashion easier to buy.
La Cobacha sells the microphone. And the kitchen sink’s neighbors.
In San Martín, Argentina, an audio retailer has made room for guitars, gaming gear and cookware. Its sprawling catalog shows how a specialist shop can serve more of everyday life.
Myntra wants to dress you before you know what to wear
The Indian fashion marketplace once shut its website to force a mobile future. Now it is chasing a more human problem: finding the right outfit, then getting it to you while the occasion still matters.
HK01 Wants the Rest of Your Day
The Hong Kong publisher has built shopping, ticketing and rewards around the daily news habit. Its most revealing growth experiment began with runners looking for photographs of themselves.
Blibli Is Building an Online Mall You Can Walk Into
Phones, groceries, holidays, a new sofa. Blibli is stitching together the places Indonesians spend their money - and betting that the next online purchase may begin in a physical store.
Uzum’s $500 million answer to a broken online order
Uzbekistan’s digital commerce group has put more than $500 million into infrastructure. Its bet: a shopping app becomes far more useful when the warehouse, the payment and the loan work together.
1stDibs Put the Flea Market Online. The Hard Part Was the Checkout.
Rare chairs, real money, and the business of getting strangers to trust each other. How 1stDibs turned a Paris shopping habit into a public marketplace - and why shipping quotes now matter as much as taste.
The Company That Taught Nigeria to Buy Online
Jumia built warehouses, a payment wallet and a fleet of delivery riders to sell phones and rice to a continent the big retailers skipped. Fourteen years in, Nigeria is the market deciding whether the bet finally pays off.
Lamoda Built a Fashion Store. Then It Built the Road to Your Door.
The Moscow retailer’s real product is not a dress, a sneaker or even an app. It is the machinery that makes buying fashion online feel less like a wager on size, taste and delivery.
Jumia Uganda Is Building the Shop That Goes Where Shops Don’t
The orange marketplace sells everything from kettles to phones. Its more consequential product is the route between a seller, a pickup station and a customer far beyond Kampala.
Takealot Built South Africa’s Shopping Habit - Now Its Delivery Network Is the Product
The blue-dot retailer spent 15 years teaching South Africans to trust the doorbell. Its next act is to sell the machinery behind that trust - to merchants, subscribers and businesses far beyond its own checkout.
Ann Taylor
Ann Taylor is an American specialty retailer of women's clothing, shoes, and accessories, founded in 1954 and known for polished, tailored wardrobing aimed at professional women. Headquartered in New York's Times Square, the brand operates a network of stores and an e-commerce platform, and sits alongside sister label LOFT under KnitWell Group, a portfolio company of private-equity firm Sycamore Partners.
Macy's
Macy's is one of America's best-known department store chains, founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy in New York City and now the flagship nameplate of Macy's, Inc. (NYSE: M). The company sells apparel, accessories, beauty, cosmetics, footwear and home goods across roughly 450 stores and macys.com, and also operates the higher-end Bloomingdale's and the beauty specialty chain Bluemercury. Anchored by its Herald Square flagship and cultural touchstones like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Fourth of July fireworks, Macy's is executing a multiyear turnaround called the 'Bold New Chapter' under CEO Tony Spring.
SHOE SHOW, INC.
SHOE SHOW, INC. is a privately held, family-owned footwear retailer based in Concord, North Carolina. Founded in 1960 by Robert and Carolyn Tucker, it sells branded shoes, handbags and accessories for the whole family at value prices through roughly 1,000-1,200 stores across 47 states under the Shoe Show, Shoe Dept., Shoe Dept. Encore, Shoe Show Mega, Burlington Shoes and Shoebilee! banners, plus a growing online store. The company runs a centralized distribution and store-support operation from Concord and moves about a million pairs of shoes a week.
Maisonette
Maisonette is a curated online marketplace for babies, kids, and parents - often described as the 'Net-a-Porter of childrenswear.' Founded in 2017 by two former Vogue staffers, it brings together clothing, shoes, toys, nursery furniture, and home decor from hundreds of independent and luxury brands in one design-led storefront, layered with its own private-label lines like Maison Me and Neon Rebels.
a.k.a. Brands
a.k.a. Brands is a portfolio operator of next-generation, digitally native fashion brands, including Princess Polly, Culture Kings, Petal & Pup and mnml. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, it reaches Gen Z and millennial shoppers who discover fashion on social media and primarily buy online. A data-driven 'test and repeat' merchandising model lets its brands launch fresh, exclusive styles weekly. The company trades on the NYSE under the ticker AKA and reported net sales of $600.2 million in fiscal 2025.
Curated
Curated is a San Francisco-based online marketplace that connects shoppers with vetted, passionate experts who deliver one-on-one product advice for high-consideration purchases - from skis and golf clubs to cameras and coffee gear. Founded in 2017 by Eduardo Vivas, Peter Ombres, Alex Vauthey and Annabel Liu, the company raised about $141.5M from CapitalG, Greylock and Forerunner Ventures before being acquired by Flip for $330M in stock in July 2024.