Growing pains hold back Zalando in battle with Amazon


  • TECH
  • Tuesday, 18 Jul 2017

Zalando, founded in 2008, now delivers 2,000 brands in 15 countries and is expanding deliveries from distribution centres in Germany and France. — Reuters

BERLIN: German online fashion retailer Zalando stumbled in its breakneck expansion across Europe in the second quarter due to capacity constraints at new warehouses, sending its shares down 7%.

Europe's biggest online-only fashion retailer needs to scale up quickly to compete with e-commerce giant Amazon, but preliminary quarterly sales growth of 19-21% undershot the Berlin-based company's annual target.

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