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Matt Neale, eStar Chief Technology Officer speaks with Inside Retail - Australia, about the importance of connecting Stores to Online.

John Menagh, Sales Director, and Greg Randall, Digital Strategist join the team

 

MELBOURNE, Australia – Monday 21^st, March 2016 – eStar, Australasia’s largest specialist eCommerce solutions company, has today announced two new senior appointments to bolster its growing operations.

John Menagh joins eStar as Sales Director, Australia, and will be responsible for sales and business development opportunities in the Australian market. Greg Randall joins the business as a Digital Strategist for Australia and New Zealand.

     

John Menagh, Sales Director (above left) and Greg Randall, Digital Strategist (above right), join eStar

There’s no doubt about it, Click & Collect is huge!

As the name suggests (and everyone knows!), allows customers to order online and pick their goods up in store, at a time and location of their convenience.  

In Australasia, Click & Click is growing, for example Harvey Norman claim Click & Collect is over 50% of online, when The Warehouse launched Click & Collect 2 years ago, it went to 10% in the first week, and is now over 30% of online sales.

Opinion Piece by Andrew Buxton, CEO eStar

Major expansion in retail means acquiring new customers. In simple terms that is done either through the expansion of products, services, or brands offered, or by expanding into new markets. Traditional market expansion has been through adding more physical retail stores.

Traditional store growth for retail chains in New Zealand, with our small population of 4.5 million, usually reaches saturation at about 50-70 stores for most brands. For successful retail brands the next step is to look overseas. While there are many retail examples of international store expansion, such as Pumpkin Patch, Kathmandu or Rodd & Gunn, many have struggled to make such international expansion a financial success. Expansion through physical stores has a large commitment – store leases, fit-out costs, people costs, stock holding and distribution costs in market, not to mention market entry and store promotion. It’s a big commitment with high risks.

     

Andrew Buxton - eStar Chief Executive (above) speaks to NBR about why brand is becoming more important online.