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Zalando, Amazon and Otto together account for 18 percent of the 40 billion euros online shoe and apparel market in Western Europe. For now, Otto Group is the market leader, with Zalando just behind, but Amazon could be the number one soon. The American company is ramping up its fashion activities in Europe.

Zalando is a major European online fashion player and one of the few that could compete with Amazon on European ground. But it doesn't look at its American counterparts as much as it does at Asian companies. Zalando has learnt a lot from players like Alibaba.

Zalando has plans to hire 1,000 engineers throughout the course of next year. If this really happens, it would be a major increase of the German fashion retailer's technology team, that currently counts 1,600 people.

Zalando gives small local retailers the opportunity to sell their products through its Fashion Platform. According to the German fashion giant, the future of commerce will be a seamless shopping experience for customers, whether products are available online or in local stores.

Abercrombie & Fitch has entered into a wholesale agreement with Zalando, Europe's largest online fashion retailer. Starting this week, Zalando will offer Abercrombie & Fitch, Hollister and Abercrombie Kids products through its online stores in the 15 European countries it serves.

The sales of German fashion retailer Zalando during the second quarter increased by 25 percent compared to the same period last year. Sales were worth 916.4 million euros during these three months. Adjusted earnings before interest and taxes amounted to 80.9 million euros.

Hermes has become the second logistics partner for Zalando in Germany, but this logistics company isn't a success with all Zalando customers. That's why the German fashion retailer offers customers, who absolutely don't want their packages to be delivered by Hermes, the opportunity to put Hermes on a black list. These customers will be helped by DHL.

Zalando is becoming more and more a fashion platform rather than just an online fashion retailer. The German ecommerce giant has now announced its new service, Fulfillment by Zalando. The company states that its mission, as Zalando Operations, is to become the best fulfillment partner for fashion in Europe.

Zalando customers who don't want to take their returns to the post office, can now have them picked up at their home by a courier service for free. The German online fashion retailer has just started this pilot project in Vienna.

Zalando has launched yet another mobile shopping app. With the app Fleek, the German fashion retailer wants to inspire users with fashion items and offer them effortless shopping. Its dream is to offer one of the broadest in-app lifestyle assortments in Europe.

Zalando saw its revenue increase with 33.6 percent year-on-year, which is more than was expected. The revenue growth was due to a continued focus on customer proposition and reinforced by additional market opportunities. After a strong financial year, Zalando expects its revenue to increase by about 25 percent this year.

Zalando has quietly tested brand advertising at its own platform during the past few months. With a group of several brands, it ran 30 advertising campaigns from external brands on dedicated parts of its own online store and via third party sites.

Boris Radke, head of corporate communications at Zalando, has published an interesting story about his first five years at the German online fashion retailer. One of the things he elaborates on is how he and a few other guys with little experience 'just' started planning a logistics facility and that the key learning of it all is to "think big and act fast".

Zalando wants to become an open fashion platform and eventually even the number one tech company in Europe. That's what co-founder Robert Gentz said this week, answering questions about the future of Europe's biggest online fashion retailer.

German fashion retailer Zalando will start the construction of its fourth fulfillment center in Germany in October. The self-operating logistics center will be 130,000 square meters big and allows the ecommerce company to serve customers in Southern Germany, Switzerland and France even faster.