“They're aggressively pushing direct to customer, DTC… they can sell and market their products exactly how they want to”

The Desert Island Investor · Amer Sports : From Tobacco to Trainers

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shifted from standard wholesale to an aggressive direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy via their own websites

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