Frank Calviño

The future of e-commerce in the Netherlands, a Direct Link Report
The Dutch e-commerce market has high growth potential. Since 2020 the cross-border e-commerce spending grew from 564 million euros to 736 million euros in 2021. These results were shown by...
February 24, 2022
Poland: A red-hot e-commerce market
E-commerce is growing rapidly in virtually all European countries. The latest studies on e-commerce development conducted by Direct Link and presented in the E-commerce in Europe  2021 report show that...
February 21, 2022
Paper: An effective and sustainable cold chain packing solution!
Author: Anne de Rouw - Business Development Manager Cold Chain at Ranpak Edited by: Frank Calviño - Cross-Border Magazine These past two years have seen a massive increase in e-commerce....
February 18, 2022
Live Shopping: Understanding the hottest e-commerce trend
Live Shopping has become the hottest and newest trend in digital marketing and e-commerce. And if you still remember those midnight infomercials, that typical “As Seen on TV” spot, surely...
February 16, 2022
87 million kilos of shipping material are produced yearly in the Netherlands
Shipping materials are slowly becoming a major issue for e-commerce. Over 87 million kilos of shipping material is produced, per year, according to numbers presented by Recycling Netwerk Benelux. This...
February 14, 2022
TMall: A quick guide into China’s main marketplace
TMall has become the referential marketplace for the Chinese market. It has gained a reputation as, perhaps, one of the best entry points for selling online in China, and being...
February 10, 2022
UK online retail is the number one market in Europe!
The UK is one of the world’s leading e-commerce nations, particularly in groceries, where it was an early mover compared to, for example, the Nordic countries. E-commerce consumers are both...
February 8, 2022
Amazon accounts for 25% of American e-commerce!
Amazon accounts for 25% of American e-commerce, a feat that no one thought possible to be achieved by a single company, just a few years ago.  According to data provided...
February 7, 2022
White-label brands: Lessons from Amazon Basics and InnovaGoods
White-label brands and products are used as tactical brand assets by major online players. Today, we want to quickly review two very different study cases of white-label brands created for...
February 2, 2022
Direct Link report on E-commerce in Europe is here!
E-commerce in Europe has grown remarkably in the last year. For that reason, Direct Link report is vital. Especially nowadays, when is more important than ever to know the needs...
February 1, 2022
Pattern research: Western brands excel at meeting Chinese customers’ expectations on Tmall Global
40 consumer brands selling on Tmall Global reviewed, with an average score of 78.2% against a list of best  practice criteria, with baby brand Jellycat and beauty brand OUAI Haircare...
January 31, 2022
Complete checklist for planning your cross-border in 2022! by GoGlobal Ecommerce
Covid or no Covid, e-commerce has been growing fast for at least the last two decades. And alongside e-commerce, cross-border commerce has increased as a natural development of the e-commerce...
January 26, 2022
6 examples of how AR is used to improve e-commerce
How Augmented reality (AR) is used to improve e-commerce? That's a pretty common question nowadays. Since Covid struck us, there is a massive hype around AR as a sales solution....
January 24, 2022
Direct Link Report: A look at e-commerce in Germany
As in previous years, Germany is one of the strongest e-commerce markets in Europe. 62,1 million consumers shopped online in 2021, representing 94% of the population that shops online. The...
January 20, 2022
Walmart's Metaverse will bring its own currency and NFTs
Walmart's Metaverse adventure could start this year. It seems that the brand is creating its own cryptocurrency as well as a collection of NFTs, according to multiple media outlets in...
January 19, 2022
Flash deliveries in the Netherlands could reach 1 billion euros in 2022
Flash deliveries in the Netherlands keep growing as a preferred delivery option and have tripled during the past 2021, reaching a total of over 700.000 consumers who currently use this...
January 17, 2022
E-commerce trends and standards for 2022!
E-commerce trends and standards shift year over year. And with each new iteration, brands and companies are faced with different challenges and opportunities.  Keeping track of the things that could...
January 13, 2022
The IRX 2022 Event Listing is here!
The retail and eCommerce landscapes have significantly shifted over the past 2 years and a visit to IRX & eDX (InternetRetail Expo & eDelivery Expo) will provide retail professionals with the...
January 11, 2022
UK e-commerce returns could cost up to £7bn a year
UK e-commerce returns could cost about £7bn a year and heavily impact companies’ carbon footprints.  In one single hour, during this past Christmas day, 709 products were returned online via...
January 10, 2022
PayPal payment service most offered in Italian e-commerce
PayPal Payment service is offered in 93% of Italian online stores, according to research presented by ecommerceDB.  The research took into account the top 100 online stores in 43 different...
January 7, 2022
Can NFT be used for e-commerce marketing?
Last year the “NFT fever” took the world by storm with news outlets reporting the auction of artist Beeple NFT work entitled 5000 EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS at Christie’s,...
January 5, 2022
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