Zalando | Competitive Intelligence Profile
Zalando is a leading online fashion retailer in the UK, offering a wide range of clothing, shoes, and accessories for men, women,...

Zalando is a leading online fashion retailer in the UK, offering a wide range of clothing, shoes, and accessories for men, women, and children. The company is known for its extensive selection of both high street and high-end brands, providing a personalized shopping experience with free delivery and returns on most orders.
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βοΈ Zalando Alternatives and Competitors β
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ποΈ Zalando Product and Pricing News
- Zalando has significantly updated its Assistant, enhancing personalization and context awareness to improve customer fashion recommendations, as announced by Tian Su, VP Personalisation & Recommendation.
- Zalando has expanded its ethnic wear collections, making traditional fashion more accessible to Western consumers.
- Zalando adjusted its Belgian website after the Belgian Economic Inspectorate found misleading discounts that violated European pricing rules.
- Zalando's General Manager for France, Laura Toledano Khelif, signed the revised French voluntary charter for sustainable e-commerce to reduce the environmental footprint of the industry.
- Zalando will deactivate SOLE Made In Italy from February 20-26, 2025.
- Alejandro Saucedo, AI & Data Executive at Zalando, and Executive Principal Engineer Bartosz Ocytko will present the opening keynote on "The State of GenAI & ML in the Cloud Native Ecosystem" at KubeCon 2025 AI Day.
- Zalando launched their latest SS25 campaign featuring Sarah Jessica Parker and Mahmood on March 21.
- On March 18, Zalando and adidas hosted a Sukeban wrestling event in Berlin to celebrate International Women's Day Weekend, showcasing women's empowerment in sports.
π Zalando CEO, Management and Leadership Team
βοΈ Zalando Alternatives and Competitors
- houseoffraser.co.uk |
- jdsports.co.uk |
- asos.com |
- office.co.uk |
- lyst.co.uk |
- schuh.co.uk |
- KOI footwear |
- Trespass |
- Crepslocker |
- eBay |
- ShowroomprivΓ© |
- Topshop Topman |
- Farfetch |
- Bestseller |
- Adazon |
- Amazon


πΌ Zalando Hiring and Layoffs
- Diwan Nikhil is leaving Zalando as a Principal Product Manager to join Aqilliz as Chief Product Officer in Finland.
- Graeme Smith, former Amazon and YouTube executive, will join Zalando as SVP Engineering in Berlin starting May.
- James Rothwell has joined Zalando as Senior Vice President Marketing in the United Kingdom, previously serving as Chief Marketing and Content Officer at World Rugby.
- Ida Sultan's role at Zalando is now open as she relocates to the USA, offering an opportunity for candidates to lead strategic projects in the Nordic region.
- Isabel Hennig has joined Zalando as Head of Commercial Law from her previous position as Chief Counsel Central Europe at Mondelez International in Germany.
- Zalando is currently hiring for the position of Head of Engineering - Emerging Propositions in Finland.
- Zalando is currently hiring for the position of Head of Portfolio Management (all genders) in Germany.
- Natalia Pimenova has joined Zalando as Facilities Manager (Zalando Outlet Stores) in Germany, previously working as Workplace Experience Ambassador at JLL.
π€ Zalando Developer, Integration and Automation News
- Zalando announced a two-year partnership as the official fashion and sports retailer of the NN Marathon Rotterdam, aligning with their strategy to expand their lifestyle offering.
- Zalando has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Diane von Furstenberg, making it the sole retailer of the brand in Europe.
- Zalando is a client of Horizon-Automation, which has implemented numerous projects in e-commerce distribution centers and warehouses.
- Zalando's Product Platform team, led by Senior Principal Software Engineer Conor Gallagher and Head of Engineering Giorgio Carta, developed a high-performance API capable of handling millions of requests per second with single-digit-millisecond latency, featuring a new load-balancing algorithm for their open-source request router.
- Zalando launched its first creative production partnership with Michael Kors for the SS25 campaign 'Destination: Beyond' on March 5, 2025.
- Zalando's Principal Engineer, Naval Singh, shared insights on using Large Language Models to migrate merchant-facing UIs to a new component library.
- Zalando's Software Engineer Mustafa Abdelrahman implemented a Route Server to manage control plane traffic and stabilize their Kubernetes cluster.
- Zalando's Engineering Manager Syamala Umamaheswaran shared how Mustafa Abdelrahman addressed performance bottlenecks in their infrastructure using Route Server.
π Zalando Financials, Fundraising and Valuation News
- Zalando is acquiring more than 90% of About You's shares and plans to force out remaining minority shareholders after regulatory approval.
- Zalando published its Full Year 2024 results and expects growth to accelerate in 2025 by focusing on its B2C and B2B strategies.
- Zalando's stock fell by 1 to 1.6% in the German market.
- Zalando's Co-CEOs, Robert Gentz and David SchrΓΆder, announced strong financial performance and future growth investments at their annual results press conference on March 14.
- Zalando's stock fell over 4% amid concerns of a trade war following the U.S. President's tariff announcements.
- Zalando's stock price doubled from β¬20 to β¬40 this year, reflecting its profitability and expansion while continuing to hire international talent.
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