Founded in 2009 by former Google employees Jodie Fox, Michael Fox and Mike Knapp, Shoes of Prey allows people to design their own women’s shoes using a virtual 3D designer that lets them pick style, shape, height and materials. The shoes are then custom made and shipped anywhere in the world within a few weeks.
The Sydney-based company reportedly received $3 million in funding last year.
Founded in 2006 by Ruslan Kogen and headquartered in Melbourne, Kogan Technologies is an Australian consumer electronics manufacturer and retailer.
The company’s business model is to sell products direct from Asia to customers in Australia and the United Kingdom, bypassing the industry’s usual middlemen.
Kogan Technologies’ 2012 revenue was $100 million.
Online business in Australia has jumped by 25%.
Orders made over the internet, including both within Australia and from overseas, reaped more than $237 billion in revenues in the 2011-12 financial year over the year before, according to the IT Use and Innovation in Australian Business report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week.
Information media and telecommunications businesses received the most online orders in 2011-12, followed by wholesale trade manufacturing whilst agriculture, forestry and fishing had the lowest proportion of online orders.
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The team here at OPMC congratulate the WooThemes team on 1 million downloads of WooCommerce! And they did it in less than two years!
Once the WooCommerce hit the half-million download milestone six months ago, it became a veritable juggernaut, averaging about 5,000 downloads per day over the last few weeks.
That’s a lot of people embracing the convenience and cost cutting measures of online commerce, something WooThemes and OPMC is glad to see.
Again, congratulations, WooThemes! You deserve it!
An Australia Post official has revealed that the traditional mail carrier will likely see a drop of $200 million in business this year.
In addition to losing $200 million in business this year, those losses will increasingly get “bigger and bigger as people move from physical to digital communications,” said Catriona Larritt, who is General Manager, of Post Digital at Australia Post at the Digital Productivity Conference in Brisbane recently.
The organisation has been losing about 4 to 5% of physical mail volume since 2008 and this year, it will deliver one billion fewer letters than in 2008.
She also said that Australia Post is three years into a five-year transitional program to address the shift from physical to digital communications. So far the program has resulted in the relatively new Digital Mailbox service and other e-commerce initiatives.
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The One Pager is a modern, clean, and fresh theme design for WooCommerce. It is a scrollable and very flexible theme, you can easily customize the modules to get the looks you require. It incorporates many features, such as WooSlider integration, integration with the WooThemes Testimonials plugin.
You can read more about the features of this theme here at: http://www.woothemes.com/products/the-one-pager/
James van Rooyen and Jonathon Allara are two Australian entrepreneurs who started a bike hire company that has become one of the seven top selling bike companies in Australia. Van Rooyen who had a job in marketing, and Allara who was an accountant found out about the power of ecommerce and how it can transform their business into a successful one. They have started with a $16000 and setup Manly Bike Tours. Now, their company is selling over 5000 bikes a year, they have 13 staff, and makes a revenue of $3 million a year.
To read more about this article please click the following link: http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/growing/online-bike-venture-riding-high-20130527-2n695.html
This theme can very well be suitable for a desserts, cakes, food industry type of website. It is a fresh, clean, and modern design, it offers many functionalities such as the full support for WooCommerce plugin made by WooThemes.
Also you will have a choice of three different content layouts, and the theme is fully responsive, which means that the dimensions of the website can automatically be fitted to any screen size, whether it is a mobile screen, tablet screen, or PC.
WooThemes team has announced the launch of 6 new WooCommerce extensions, 4 of them are payment gateways, such as PayUTurkey which is a Turkish payment gateway. These extensions are as follows:
There is also an update to Product-Add Ons 2.0 & CSV Import Suite 1.3.
You can read the full article at: http://www.woothemes.com/2013/05/6-new-woocommerce-extensions-and-updates-to-2-old-favorites/
