What springs to mind when you think of
Pixmania? I would like to wager that it’s not drills and lawnmowers, right?
Parent company
DSGi describes Pixmania on its corporate website as “the only pan-European etailer of digital photographic and consumer electronic goods.” So why on earth has it branched out into garden products and power tools? It’d make sense if it could benefit from product synergies with a sister company but as far as I'm aware Dixons, Currys, and PC World all stick to their core business, not a hedge strimmer in sight.
In addition to tools and garden merchandise, Pixmania has also diversified into offering watches and jewellery, health and beauty products, and toys and games. Only one of those seems logical to me, and only if it were just selling computer games.
In the June issue of
Catalogue e-business I wrote that multichannel retailers must
Diversify or die, but there’s a flipside to consider, as Sherry pointed out in the Eddie Bauer post:
Dilution = death. Where is Pixmania heading?--MT
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