Gilt Groupe news and trends

Amazon Closing Up Shop On MyHabit
Retail // April 22, 2016

Having concluded that flash sales are something of a bad (read: no longer popular) habit among consumers, Amazon is doing away with its own offering in the space. Re/code reports that the eCommerce giant is shutting down its flash-sale fashion shopping site MyHabit after five...

Project September Aims To Drive Commerce With Instagram
Retail // April 15, 2016

Could everyone’s favorite image-based social network be transformed into the world’s largest crowdsourced retail catalog? One woman hopes the answer is yes. This coming Thursday (April 21), Alexis Maybank, Gilt Groupe cofounder and its first CEO, will launch a new foray into digital retail: Project...

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Rue La La Snaps Up Gilt From Hudson Bay

June 05, 2018
Flash sale relative newcomer Rue La La has snapped up Gilt Groupe, an eCommerce site that specializes in designer goods at a deep discount. According to The New York Post, the terms of the deal are not yet known. Hudson Bay is Gilt’s parent company, and the sale is now the second time in 11 […]

Amazon Closing Up Shop On MyHabit

April 22, 2016
Having concluded that flash sales are something of a bad (read: no longer popular) habit among consumers, Amazon is doing away with its own offering in the space. Re/code reports...

Project September Aims To Drive Commerce With Instagram

April 15, 2016
Could everyone’s favorite image-based social network be transformed into the world’s largest crowdsourced retail catalog? One woman hopes the answer is yes. This coming Thursday (April 21), Alexis Maybank, Gilt...