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Handelszeitung, April 5, 2017
Blacksocks Walk in the footsteps of Amazon
The Swiss e-commerce company Blacksocks Brings the "Dash button". As with the US giant Amazon, consumers should be able to order goods at home at home.
SRF Eco, November 28, 2016
Crowding struggle in the clothing market
Online retailers put traditional trade under pressure.
The World week, April 24, 2016
A conversation with the sock dealer
You said that socks are the most boring product - but you still spend part of your professional life with it. » -«We have not reinvented the socks, they had always redefined two holes at the top, but the man's sock interface. And with our subscription we were able to take the boring product from the man's radar.
Bieler Tagblatt, April 15, 2016
"Shopping socks will never be funny"
For almost 20 years, socks have been available via online subscription-and the brand Blacksocks Has now even made it to the museum.
Finance and Economy, March 31, 2016
No lame sock at all
The founder of BLACKSOCKS dared a lot and won a lot. He invented the sock subscription and is one of the Swiss e-commerce pioneers.
Thrillist.com - December 14, 2015
Blacksocks Plus+ smart socks
Do you need smart socks? Probably not. But Answer us this: Have you ever mispaired socks that looked almost the same but are actual (Maddeningly) Slightly Different?
Economic week, November 7, 2014
"Men are too lazy to buy socks"
As 1999 BLACKSOCKS It was founded, many thought it was a snap idea: black socks as a annual subscription. In 2008 the company sold its millionth sock.
DIE ZEIT ONLINE, July 10, 2014
Mr. Hibbe does too
The tean sits in a loft that was once a lamp factory. Dark parquet, high ceilings, designer lights in orange. A few books in a shelf: dressing the Man, website boosting, about good web design, market research from A - Z. Below in the valley, Lake Zurich glits, trams past the shore.
315,000 visitors on his homepage between January and May, 44 percent more than a year ago. 102,000 visitors from Germany alone - plus 260 percent. "The traffic performs well," says the founder. "Traffic is the mother of sales."
Blick, Switzerland - April 16, 2014
The Fuß of Switzerland!
Philipp Fankhauser doesn't make much of his socks. So he now makes some himself. (Image assembly) Zurich-his “The Voice” career already smells him? Or does he need a new, emergency colored stimulus? Musician Philipp Fankhauser (50) tenses with "Blacksock" founder Samy Liechti and launches his own "Funky Socks" sock line.
Corriere della Sera, October 11, 2013
Calze Pulite? In Italia and Po ’Meno
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera compares the Italians' sock change frequency with the Germans.
Image, Germany - September 24, 2012
Smartphone now helps to sort socks
The Swiss sock emission service BLACKSOCKS Now offers "Smarter Socks", the world's first clever stockings-with an integrated RFID chip! There is also an iPhone app and the reader "sock sorter" with which the chips can be evaluated. The meaning of the whole: Finally socks socks by men's way ...
Mail Online, UK - September 24, 2012
No more odd socks! New iPhone App Sorts Your Socks Using Microchip Technology
Rushing to get Ready for that Meeting but Just Can't Find that Matching Sock? You never have to panic again, Because Now there is an app for that. Swiss Company Blacksocks Have launched the World’s First 'Smarter Socks' App for iPhone which can be used to reunite lost socks with their partners.
Tages-Anzeiger, January 3, 2012
Which men buy their socks themselves
Buying socks is annoying. For Swiss, Austrians and British, according to a survey of BLACKSOCKS So much so that you often deport this task to your wife or even to your mother.
Süddeutsche Zeitung - October 14, 2011
The striped light
The Swiss sock company BLACKSOCKS has made a sock behavior survey. The Germans give up an impeccable picture. You have quite a few socks and also change them regularly.
New York Times, July 29, 2010
BLACKSOCKS At the New York Times in Techtalk
Interview with company founder Samy Liechti in the New York Times Tech Talk. The interview is available as a podcast or directly on the website.
K -Tip: Test winner & Bestnote - February 12, 2008
Sock tests
In February 2008 the K-Tip tested 12 men's socks. The test winner is the calf sock of BLACKSOCKS.
Test winner: calf sock
SF1 10vor10, Switzerland - April 27, 2005
Innovative business idea
Black socks in the annual subscription. The entrepreneur Samuel Liechti successfully implemented this idea six years ago. Now the company is "Blacksocks"From Zurich as the only European company, even nominated for the so -called" Copernican Award ", which characterizes innovative business ideas.