{"id":55367,"date":"2020-10-09T09:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/?p=55367"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T08:51:13","slug":"covid-quarter-fails-to-derail-hodinkee-as-ecommerce-sales-expected-to-rise-by-over-20-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/covid-quarter-fails-to-derail-hodinkee-as-ecommerce-sales-expected-to-rise-by-over-20-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid quarter fails to derail Hodinkee as ecommerce sales expected to rise by over 20% this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hodinkee expects sales to rise 20-30% this calendar year, despite the economic damage inflicted by the covid quarter and its long shadow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eneuri Acosta (pictured top), chief operating officer for Hodinkee, says that its ecommerce business had already grown this year, and is expecting a spike in activity over the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor numbers to its editorial content have also risen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen growth in traffic, growth in the number of brands we stock from around 12-14 at the beginning of the year to more than 25 today,&#8221; he reveals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could see a two to three month sprint for the remainder of 2020 and expect to be 20-30% up this year,&#8221; he adds in reference to the pent up demand caused by the freedoms curtailed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <em>WatchPro<\/em> from his home office \u2014 the majority of Hodinkee&#8217;s 55 employees make only essential trips into the office \u2014 Mr Acosta said that the strategic goals of the company remain unaltered by this year&#8217;s crisis, but some business objectives, such as the opening of a physical space where its community could meet, talk watches and shop, have been delayed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That has been pushed back,&#8221; he confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eneuri Acosta, chief operating officer for Hodinkee, says\u00a0that its ecommerce business had already grown this year, and is expecting a spike in activity over the holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[11211],"newspack_lstngs_evt":[],"newspack_lstngs_gen":[],"newspack_lstngs_mkt":[],"newspack_lstngs_plc":[],"acf":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"WATCHPRO","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_evt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_evt?post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_gen","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_gen?post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_mkt","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_mkt?post=55367"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_lstngs_plc","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.watchpro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_lstngs_plc?post=55367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}