Service Providers

It is a real side blow against the classic parcel deliverers. Amazon has announced that it will initially help small companies in the USA to set up delivery services. The group wants to become more in…

July 30, 2018

Hermes is currently investing several million euros in a new, fully digital route planning system. The goal: Shorter delivery time windows for customers and optimized route planning for carriers.

July 26, 2018

Business in a Box is intended to facilitate the entry into e-commerce. In this offer PayPal has compiled tools around shop software, payment, accounting and marketing according to the kit principle.

July 26, 2018

When it comes to leather products, consumers are very sensitive. Especially baby products such as baby’s slippers or lambskins should be free of harmful substances. The Leather Standard label from Oek…

May 15, 2018

At the 34th International Cotton Conference in Bremen (21 – 23 March), the non-profit marketing organization Cotton USA presented its new initiative “What’s new in Cotton”. The innovation program, whi…

April 10, 2018

The South Tyrolean joinery Complojer was awarded the German Design Award 2018 in the category “Excellent Product Design” for the growing bed “Ticia”. Luna Journal spoke to managing director Davide Com…

March 20, 2018

Digitalisation is changing almost every area of business, including accounting. Different companies now offer outsourcing solutions that combine accounting software, banking services, and file hosting…

March 1, 2018

EU citizens are often stopped from making internet purchases from other countries. That’s because of geoblocking, which allows the online purchase to be made only in the buyer’s own country or a neigh…

February 13, 2018

The Higher Administrative Court (OVG) of Berlin-Brandenburg decided on Tuesday, 23 January 2018 that the shops may be opened on the three Sundays of Green Week, the Berlinale and the ITB in Berlin. Th…

January 25, 2018

If the tax inspector calls unannounced, then business owners should let them in and show them the cash register. A new law on the checking the cash register came into force in Germany at the start of…

January 23, 2018

44.3 million people were employed in 2017 – the highest number since reunification. According to preliminary calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, the number of employed persons was 638,000…

January 23, 2018

Consultancy-based shopping promises higher-than-average spends and stronger customer loyalty. More and more companies are offering curated shopping. Kindhochdrei was one of the first shopping services…

January 16, 2018

At the latest the Christmas business has shown that the parcel industry is reaching its limits. The parting manager of Hermes, Hanjo Schneider, has his own ideas about what to do. Though companies lik…

January 4, 2018

It was a sensation: At the beginning of December Birkenstock announced that it would cease supplying Amazon EU at the beginning of the year. The family-owned company therefore drew attention to a majo…

January 4, 2018

Birkenstock already stopped supplying Amazon in December. Luna Journal in conversation with Jochen Gutzy of Birkenstock, about the exact reasons for the delivery stop.

January 4, 2018