The Business of Fashion
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
One of Brazil’s largest retail companies, Magazine Luiza, known colloquially as Magalu, this week announced its acquisition of Jovem Nerd, a multimedia platform, focusing on self-proclaimed “nerd culture” content, including movies, games, comics, as well as related apparel and accessories.
This move comes only a month after purchasing Steal the Look, a digital fashion, beauty, culture and lifestyle platform specialising in shoppable content. That buyout also included Push, a platform focused on female entrepreneurship, started by Steal the Look’s founders.
Jovem Nerd marks the 17th buyout by the retail behemoth in recent times, each designed to bolster its digital strategy and ambition to create a “super app”, while simultaneously boosting its online advertising reach.
This week, Magazine Luiza was also cleared by Brazil’s antitrust regulator, CADE, to finalise its 290 million reais ($52 million) acquisition of payment solutions platform, Hub Prepaid.
Magazine Luiza was founded in 1957 and currently operates 1,300 physical stores and employs more than 4,000 people. In recent years it has also become a leading e-commerce platform, rivalling giants B2W, Via Varejo and Latin American behemoth Mercado Libre.
Despite decades of volatility in Latin America’s third-largest economy, some local fashion entrepreneurs have found success thanks to a combination of grit, determination and hyper-adaptability.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Hong Kong jewellery giant Chow Tai Fook, Ghana’s travel retail move and Brazilian apparel retailer Lojas Renner.
This week’s round-up of global markets fashion business news also features Japanese cosmetics group Kosé, Pakistan’s e-commerce market and JD.com’s management shakeup in China.
Actors are a particularly effective way of reaching Indian consumers, but fashion brands should consider widening the net to include other famous faces like local musicians, athletes and celebrity influencers, say marketing experts.