WHO
After creating exponential revenue, profit and enterprise growth for clients through Bolt Digital, our London based marketing agency, Steve, David, Tash and Luke launched Bolt Brands.
Working closely alongside the four founders are a team of leading edge data scientists, expert digital marketing practitioners and some of the world’s leading martech platform providers.
Bolt Brands deploys its own funds and has a select and growing network of value-add investment partners that generate intelligently risk managed and market-leading returns in a fast-growing sector.
WHO
After creating exponential revenue, profit and enterprise growth for clients through Bolt Digital, our London based marketing agency, Steve, David, Tash and Luke launched Bolt Brands.
Working closely alongside the four founders are a team of leading edge data scientists, expert digital marketing practitioners and some of the world’s leading martech providers.
Bolt Brands deploys its own funds to acquire D2C brands, along with a select network of angel investment partners. Investments are intelligently risk managed and market-leading returns are generated in the emerging D2C asset class.
WHY
At a time when the retail apocalypse has accelerated and many alternative asset classes are either extremely volatile, or they are expected to correct once government stimulus ceases, D2C is an extremely exciting and recession-proof asset class.
Direct to Consumer brands benefit from the following advantages over traditional retail, which is why Bolt Brands focuses exclusively on the D2C sector:
WHY
At a time when the retail apocalypse has accelerated and many alternative asset classes are either extremely volatile, or they are expected to correct once government stimulus ceases, D2C is an extremely exciting and recession-proof asset class.
Direct to Consumer brands benefit from the following advantages over traditional retail, which is why Bolt Brands focuses exclusively on the D2C sector:
THE SEVEN D2C ADVANTAGES
1. Cut out the middleman (wholesale & retail) and benefit from greatly increased margins
2. Own your customer data and gain deep insights into demographics and buying behaviour
3. Control your narrative and communicate directly with your customers
4. Reduce costs with lean central services and overheads
5. Forensically analyse and control marketing expenditure to maximise ROI on a daily basis
6. Improve customer experience, engagement and loyalty
7. Take control of all elements of the supply chain and ensure sustainable and ethical practice
WHAT
Bolt acquires brands that meet the following qualification criteria:
WHERE
Head offices for the individual brand companies are typically located within or close to their primary supply chain and fulfilment partners.
All Bolt D2C brands are either platformed on Shopify and/or Amazon, or they will be re-platformed. This ensures that our proprietary AI, business intelligence, supply chain and customer service platform and integrations are standardised and centralised, which in turn reduces complexity and accelerates exponential growth.
WHERE
Head offices for the individual brand companies are typically located within or close to their primary supply chain and fulfilment partners.
All Bolt D2C brands are either platformed on Shopify and/or Amazon, or they will be re-platformed. This ensures that our proprietary AI, business intelligence, supply chain and customer service platform and integrations are standardised and centralised, which in turn reduces complexity and accelerates exponential growth.
HOW
Bolt Brands acquire and scale businesses that meet or exceed our Holy Grail benchmarks in relation to:
1. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
2. Average Order Value (AOV)
3. Cost of Acquisition and/or Advertising Cost of Sale (CPA/ACoS)
4. Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)
5. Gross Margin (GM)
6. Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Bolt has a relentless focus on improving the six D2C Holy Grail benchmarks. This results in incredibly scalable, profitable and valuable brands.
With Bolt’s proprietary customer, retail and marketing analytics platform, all data informs decision making and allows us to quickly accelerate growth in a very safe and controlled manner.
Bolt Partners provides a tech and resource platform that serves all Bolt Brands businesses. These include financial, legal, commercial, HR, recruitment, supply chain and administrative functions. This central resource pool ensures that each brand team concentrates on scaling the brand and driving revenue, profit and enterprise value safe in the knowledge that these functions operate efficiently and effectively in the background.
CONTACT US
Brand owners interested in selling their D2C brand: acquisitions@boltbrands.co.uk
Staff looking to fulfil their potential and be at the forefront of the D2C revolution: jobs@boltbrands.co.uk
CONTACT US
Brand owners interested in selling their D2C brand: acquisitions@boltbrands.co.uk
Staff looking to fulfil their potential and be at the forefront of the D2C revolution: jobs@boltbrands.co.uk