“Digital Platform Order Contribution” means Digital Platform Gross Profit after deducting demand generation expense, which includes fees that we pay for our various marketing channels. Digital Platform Order Contribution provides an indicator of our ability to extract digital consumer value from our demand generation expense, including the costs of retaining existing consumers and our ability to acquire new consumers.
“Digital Platform Order Contribution Margin” means Digital Platform Order Contribution calculated as a percentage of Digital Platform Services Revenue.
“Gross Merchandise Value” (“GMV”) means the total dollar value of orders processed. GMV is inclusive of product value, shipping and duty. It is net of returns, value added taxes and cancellations. First-party GMV is also net of promotions. GMV does not represent revenue earned by us, although GMV and revenue are correlated.
“Order Contribution” means gross profit after deducting demand generation expense, which includes fees that we pay for our various marketing channels to support the Digital Platform. Order Contribution provides an indicator of our ability to extract consumer value from our demand generation expense, including the costs of retaining existing consumers and our ability to acquire new consumers.
This document presents financial and non-financial information based on our three business pillars: Marketplaces, Platform Solutions and Brand Platform. The definitions below set out what constitute each of our business pillars.
In due course, we expect the presentation of our reportable segments to reflect our currently envisaged business pillars.
Our business pillars are defined as:
“Marketplaces” comprises GMV, Revenue and profit from:
| • | | third-party business-to-consumer businesses including the Farfetch Marketplace and Stadium Goods, which are currently presented within the Digital Platform reportable segment. |
| • | | first-party business-to-consumer businesses including Browns Fashion, Stadium Goods, Luxclusif and Violet Grey, which are currently presented within the Digital Platform and In-store reportable segments. |
“Platform Solutions” comprises third-party GMV, Revenue and profit from business-to-business businesses including Farfetch Platform Solutions, Onport and CuriosityChina, which are currently presented within the Digital Platform reportable segment.
“Brand Platform” comprises first-party GMV, Revenue and profit from New Guards Group (“New Guards”) operations across digital direct to consumer, wholesale and in-store channels. Brand Platform as used in this presentation differs from our current reportable segment named “Brand Platform”, the latter of which only includes GMV, Revenue and profit relating to the New Guards’ operations excluding New Guards’: (i) owned e-commerce websites, (ii) direct to consumer channel via our Marketplaces and (iii) directly operated stores.
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