A two-decade veteran of the global strategy consulting firm, Tobias Schönberg has been with Roland Berger since 2001. Working from the firm’s Berlin office, he grew the ranks to partner and later on senior partner, as well as serving as Co-Head of the firm’s Berlin office. A member of the firm’s Transportation practice, Schönberg advises […]
BMW and Marvel Studios have collaborated for the first time on Black Widow, released on 9th July. The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s action-packed spy thriller is the perfect film to showcase BMW’s X3 vehicle. Also joining in the action is the first-ever BMW 2 Series Gran Coupé. An exclusive look behind the scenes of the filming […]
Jaguar Land Rover has announced the appointment of Lennard Hoornik as new Chief Commercial Officer. Hoornik will begin his new role with immediate effect, helping to drive innovation within Jaguar Land Rover, and realise the potential of the business’s Reimagine strategy. Hoornik will be responsible for all global sales and marketing activity on both the […]
Scopernia, a new generation management consulting firm, has launched a gaming consulting service – Scopernia Gaming. The proposition taps into several, current global trends at once. Gaming is a rapidly expanding industry, even more so following the pandemic-induced focus on home entertainment. A September 2020 report from consultancy Simon Kucher & Partners revealed that Covid-19 […]
It is nearly impossible to imagine a world without brick-and-mortar stores, and while traditional retail is unlikely to become completely extinct over the next few years, a shift to digital transactions has been gathering speed for over a decade. Even before the global pandemic, the share of online sales was increasing steadily year after year, […]
Kasisto, creators of KAI, has launched KAI Express, which includes everything financial institutions need to rapidly deploy an intelligent digital assistant, also referred to as a virtual assistant – to their customers. KAI Express comes pre-trained and fluent in banking on day one, delivered via the cloud, and ready to engage in banking conversations that […]
Momentum Commerce announced the release of the Momentum Commerce Amazon Brand Index. The Index is a free interactive software tool that tracks over 3,500 product categories on Amazon.com, scores how discoverable over 80,000 brands are within the Amazon search results and reveals to what extent sales for these categories and brands are driven by Sponsored […]
GoDaddy Inc. announced an integration with Google which allows GoDaddy customers a way to get discovered across Google surfaces from GoDaddy’s Online Store. This expansion to GoDaddy’s current Google offering will make it easy for customers to scale their businesses and reach millions of new shoppers via Google. Without leaving their GoDaddy Online Store, customers […]
Etsy, Inc., which operates two-sided online marketplaces that connect millions of passionate and creative buyers and sellers around the world, announced the completion of its previously-announced acquisition of Depop for approximately $1.625 billion. Depop, a community-powered, purpose-driven marketplace to buy and sell unique fashion, extends Etsy’s opportunities further into the high-frequency apparel sector, specifically in […]
Elevate Brands announced it raised an additional $250 million, bringing the company’s funding total to over $317 million in 2021. The majority of the funding comes from its existing global group of technology, fintech and eCommerce business leaders, as well as new investors that include Novel TMT, FJ Labs, the chairman of SEA (which owns […]
