Brazilian fashion group operating owned brands and direct-to-consumer retail
La Moda is a vertically integrated fashion manufacturer and retailer operating three owned brands (Lança Perfume, My Favorite, Lança Perfume Easy) across 20 stores and two showrooms in Brazil. The tech stack reveals a hybrid infrastructure: SAP + e-commerce backend (Node.js, TypeScript) paired with emerging ML infrastructure (GCP Vertex AI, BigQuery, TensorFlow, PyTorch) and shifting toward AWS serverless (Lambda, EKS, EventBridge). Heavy hiring in sales, finance, and marketing — not engineering — suggests operational scaling and direct-to-consumer growth outpacing engineering capacity. Pain points cluster around SAP-e-commerce integration gaps and production cost pressure, indicating a business straddling legacy manufacturing ERP and modern digital retail.
Notable leadership hires: Creative Director
La Moda is a privately held fashion group headquartered in Criciúma, Santa Catarina, founded in 1986 as a family apparel business. Since 2006, it has scaled from contract manufacturing into a branded portfolio company: Lança Perfume (launched 2006, core brand), My Favorite (2016), and Lança Perfume Easy (2021). The company operates ~1,000 employees across manufacturing facilities in Santa Catarina (Criciúma, Nova Veneza), two direct-sales showrooms (São Paulo, Goiânia), and 20 branded retail locations nationwide. Revenue flows from wholesale (via e-commerce and distributor channels) and owned retail. The business is actively hiring across sales, finance, and marketing roles, signaling expansion in direct consumer engagement.
Core systems: SAP (ERP), Node.js + TypeScript (e-commerce backend), Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Digital: Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Meta Business Suite. Analytics and ML: GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI, Dataflow), TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn. Adopting AWS serverless (Lambda, EKS, EventBridge).
Manufacturing in Criciúma and Nova Veneza, Santa Catarina. Retail presence: 20 owned stores nationwide, two showrooms (São Paulo, Goiânia). Brands sold via own e-commerce and third-party wholesale channels.
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