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Maybe one was born from shoes and another from luggage; we come from a coat. It’s our job to keep that category hot and cool and relevant for all ages."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Luxury goods companies have generally failed to figure out how to sell their wares online. Indeed, many have shunned the Web as a place for bargain hunters to search for knock-offs or counterfeits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The biggest thing that keeps me up at night is how can we continue to evolve this organization in order to stay ahead of the curve,” Ms. Ahrendts said during an interview with a NY Times reporter at company's new global HQ in London last month. “My job is to always look two to three years ahead and look round the corner and see what’s coming.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;With this new "social media" site, she is doing just that!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/ERNEST%7E1/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://artofthetrench.com/"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JPm8Q0iI-9s/Svna0ZKKIqI/AAAAAAAAAC0/CzkYUAnIrbY/s320/burberry.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402589821649167010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a roughly 8 percent decline this year, the $226 billion global market for luxury goods is expected to grow again next year as younger consumers and working women replace retiring baby boomers as the dominant consumer group, according to consulting firm Bain &amp;amp; Company. That’s one of the main reasons Burberry is now focusing on the Internet. Ms. Ahrendts said she gets a lot of inspiration from her three children, who spend time surfing the Web and buy most of their clothes online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ms. Ahrendts said she is proud that Burberry has more than 699,000 Facebook fans. The company, founded as a maker of outdoor wear in 1856 by the British draper’s apprentice, Thomas Burberry, is also attracting customers via Twitter and Youtube.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to The New York Times, Ms. Ahrendts recently revived a 108-year old company trademark of an equestrian knight carrying a flag with the words Prorsum — Latin for forward. The image now features prominently in the headquarters’ glass-walled entrance hall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forward indeed! 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These customers include Foot Shop Limited, Green Cartridge Company Europe BV, Solaris Sport S.L.R. and Tory Burch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"While our third quarter brought us continued growth across all channels, there was significant escalation among apparel, consumer electronics and media, which are in many cases necessities for consumers," said Scot Wingo, ChannelAdvisor CEO. "Whether shopping for essentials or luxuries, more than ever we are seeing consumers using comparison shopping sites and bargain hunting across multiple websites, leading our customers to embrace a multi-channel selling approach to maximize visibility."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The third quarter also saw the release of ChannelAdvisor's next-generation Amazon solution. The solution has reportedly been well-received due to its ability to provide online retailers control over the Amazon sales channel with actionable information, eliminating the need for online retailers to involve their IT department in every minor change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Within one week of implementing ChannelAdvisor’s new Amazon solution our sales increased 34 percent," said Steve McCarty, president of Ultimate Paintball. "We're anticipating continued growth and a successful holiday season with ChannelAdvisor support of the Fulfillment by Amazon program."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Highlights of the next-generation Amazon solution include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Product Match technology that discovers which Amazon Standard Identification Number (ASIN) to select for products based on the listing’s title, price, sales rank, whether or not Amazon is a competitor and more – folding all the variables needed to make a decision into a sleek, simple-to-use interface&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Categorizer technology that offers intelligent recommendations and dynamically populates Amazon’s complex item classification keyword requirements, categorizing each product as accurately as possible and saving hours of manual data entry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A revised dashboard that, for the first time, presents a simple, dynamic, birds-eye view of the status of listings to ensure that all products are live and that all listings are fully optimized for maximum visibility and sales&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Full integration with the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) program to create, track and modify products, shipments and orders, which are then fulfilled by Amazon’s shipping service&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Additional third-quarter product updates include the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Comparison Shopping&lt;br /&gt;     o Full support for Bing Shopping Cashback, including transaction reports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Paid Search&lt;br /&gt;     o Advanced network targeting for Google campaigns&lt;br /&gt;     o Negative keyword support for Google ad groups&lt;br /&gt;     o Bing Search Cashback support including transaction reports&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rich Image&lt;br /&gt;     o URL-based commands to easily resize and apply filters such as image quality, sharpen and contrast&lt;br /&gt;     o Watermarking and dynamic text overlaying for merchandising&lt;br /&gt;     o Automated cropping for image files&lt;br /&gt;     o Ability to summarize workflow actions into a single URL-based command&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;RichCatalog&lt;br /&gt;     o New message panel allowing images text and external links to be inserted anywhere in the book; the text and links are used to display instructions, highlighted products, vendor offers and sign-up fields&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/21561642-8339831911455890117?l=directcommercesystems.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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