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Lamoda GmbH
Lamoda is a big Russian online store that sells clothes, shoes, and cosmetics and delivers them to customers' doors, letting them try things on before paying.
Lamoda is Russia's biggest online fashion store, a place where people buy clothes, shoes, and beauty products without ever walking into a mall. It sells brands owned by others, plus its own private labels, and it stands out because of how it delivers: couriers bring the order to your home, you try everything on, and you only pay for what you keep. That try-before-you-buy service, plus its own delivery fleet and pickup points, turned it into the country's leading fashion e-commerce player.
The company makes money the way most online retailers do: it buys goods and sells them at a markup, earning a slice on every order. It also runs a marketplace where other sellers list their products, and Lamoda takes a commission on those sales. Customers keep coming back because of the huge selection, fast delivery, and the freedom to try things on first — a real advantage in a country where online shopping was once seen as risky. Lamoda's current chapter is about ownership. It was a German company, but its Russian operations were bought in 2023 by a local investor group led by Yakov Panchenko, a former top executive at the supermarket chain Lenta, after the original owner Global Fashion Group exited the Russian market. So Lamoda is now a private, Russian-owned business rather than a publicly traded stock, and its franchise CEO is Maxim Grishakov. It competes with big general-marketplace rivals like Wildberries and Ozon, which have been pushing hard into fashion.
What makes Lamoda interesting is that logistics is its moat. It built its own delivery network because it couldn't rely on outside couriers to handle the try-on model, and that infrastructure is expensive to copy. The risk is that Russia's economy and sanctions have made everything harder — from sourcing foreign brands to importing goods — and giant marketplaces with deeper pockets are fighting for the same shoppers. Lamoda's bet is that speed, service, and fashion focus keep people loyal even when the competition gets louder.
Saved answer · last researched 10 Nov 2026