Cast has entered into a strategic cooperation with four leading B2B Wholesale platforms for the further standardization of product data. The first cooperating parties are well-known names from the industry: Joor, FashionUnited E-Business, Colect.io and Wewantshoes.
Through the collaboration, Cast is taking an important step in accelerating digitization within the shoes, sports and fashion industry within Europe. The cooperation arose from a clear need in the market: brands and retailers want to digitize, but often find their own way to existing digital solutions. Although there is plenty of innovative technology available, a connection between developers (digital parties) and users (brands and retailers) is left with an eye on joint interest. One of the main reasons is the lack of a neutral, connecting party that effectively brings these worlds together.
Cast takes an active role in this by offering a platform where digital parties, brands and retailers can meet. This collaboration creates an environment in which knowledge sharing, visibility and innovation are central. The aim is to organize this cooperation at the European level, to share and ultimately also supervise.
“Standardizing product data requires dedication of the market at many levels at many levels. Adjustments and challenges of which the efficiency is only visible after many years. As an industry, you have to work with it, this is not individual.” “Said Marijn Verschure van Cast. Stay guaranteed ”.
The cooperating platforms are all established players within the national and international B2B market:
FashionUnited E-Business-Olaf Laarhoven, CEO
“We are delighted to work with Cast, the leading trading platform of the shoes, sports and fashion industry. This collaboration fits in perfectly with our mission to connect the fashion and shoes industry more digitally and more efficiently. By joining forces, we create new opportunities for brands and retailers to make their visibility and business opportunities.” Said Olaf Laarhoven, CEO at FashionUnited E-Business.
“With this collaboration we strengthen the digital visibility of the shoes, sports and fashion industry. Together with Cast we make it easier for brands and retailers to find each other and do business,” says Laarhoven.
“The collaboration with Cast is an important step in strengthening the shoes, sports and fashion industry. By combining physical and digital power points, we offer brands and retailers a sustainable platform to further expand their network and business.”
Colect.io-Robert Bolland, CCO & Co-owner
“This collaboration with Cast fits in seamlessly with our mission to support the fashion and shoe industry in sustainable digital transformation. We have been doing this for more than 800 national and international brands for 15 years, of which several can be found in Cast. We are looking forward to it enormously to make this joint ambition and knowledge sharing within the chain, but it is not easier and efficiently connecting quickly and efficiently. A clear added value for all involved, “says Robert Bolland, CCO and partner at Colect.io.
“With our software, which has been specially developed for the fashion and shoe industry, we improve the cooperation between the brands and their retail partners. We do this by connecting and supporting essential physical parts of the Wholesale process with digital applications, making cooperation between supplier and shopkeeper smarter and more efficient. That leads to important cost savings and a higher profit.”
Joor – Enno Knuth, Senior Account Executive
“Joor is pleased to announce its cooperation with the leading Dutch trading platform Cast, to offer its brands an advanced digital wholesale solution.
“This collaboration will transform digital wholesale processes, so that brands can increase their sales and make better decisions based on real-time data. By using the platform, it can increase their B2B wheelsalorders and save valuable time thanks to streamlined processes.” Enno Knuth explains.
“The solution enables them to efficiently manage their existing retailer relationships and at the same time connect with buyers around the world, while they benefit from real -time sales analyzes and reporting tools.” Thus Enno Knuth, senior account executive at Joor.
We Want Shoes – Saydou Bangara, CEO & Founder
“We are very pleased to enter into this collaboration with Cast, one of the most important trading platforms in the Netherlands. We see strong synergies between the role of cast as a meeting place for the industry and our digital wholesale marketplace. Together we can supplement each other’s strong points and provide both brands and retailers added value. We can help with our services and digital terror and can be confused of this cooperation and can be confused of it Create for all parties, “says Saydou Bangoura, CEO & Founder of We Want Shoes.
In addition, this initiative is widely supported in the industry by a number of important and leading organizations:
Inretail-Julian Aarts, sector specialist Fashion & Shoes
“We support the initiative and see in particular the importance of speeding up the processes in the chain, to be able to manage data more easily and thereby improve the traction on innovation.” According to Julian Aarts, branch specialist Fashion & Shoes at Inretail.
Rexoriek Jansen, general director
“Rexor heartily supports the initiative to arrive at a European unity within the shoe and leather goods industry. The company sees this as an important step to strengthen cooperation, to better represent joint interests and to improve the position of the industry in an increasingly international market,” said Niek Jansen, general manager at Rexor.
GS1 Nederland – Jeanet van der Stoel, sector Lead Textile & Apparel
“As a neutral and non-profit organization, we believe that collaboration and making agreements about sharing and recording product data is the silent power behind well-functioning companies. This way we make reliable product information accessible to all parties in the chain, for consumers and for all systems. Together with organizations such as Cast, we help companies to meet a duration, and wear and wear, and wear and wear and wear a duration, and wear and wear and wear and wear a duration and wear and wear and wear a end-of-person and morning and wear and wear and wear a end-of-person room and and wear and wear a duration of a duration and and tomorrow, and and wear a duration, and and wear a duration, and and wear a duration, and and wear a duration, and and wear a duration and tomorrow. Jeanet van der Stoel, sector Lead Textile & Apparel at GS1 Netherlands.
By bringing parties together, Cast creates a future -proof chain in which digital innovation and commercial success go hand in hand. The collaboration marks an important milestone in the further professionalization and digitization of the shoes, sports and fashion industry.
Interested organizations in joining the collective of chain cooperation at all levels is requested to contact the initiator Cast. It is not the intention to exclude parties as long as they set the way to cooperation. This is to promote international cooperation with cost -reducing measures and efficiency in the business processes as a common goal.
