Online consumers in Germany buy more and more goods abroad. According to DPD's e-shopper barometer, half of German online shoppers have accessed a foreign webshop to purchase a product cross-border. Overall, the share of online foreign purchases in the German total volume is about 17%. Above all, Germans tend to buy cross-border in Germany. A total of 44% is accrued from
Driving Decisions with Real-Time Data
Online shoppers today have more choice, more information and crucially, less time. To compete with commercial giants like Amazon, smaller online retailers are finding ways to meet customers wherever and whenever they want to shop - but flexibility is no longer enough. Now, e-tailers need to find innovative new ways to personalise their offerings in real-time so they can build a
How to set up for Global Success
This article previously was published in Cross-Border Magazine How We Are Pentagon supports big brands to overcome challenges when entering marketplaces worldwide. Laurence Guy is founder and CEO of Pentagon Group. As a former eBay power seller, he knows the challenges of selling on marketplaces from first-hand experience. Having lived in Bangkok for two years, he has
Bank of China to enable payment in Yuan on U.S. e-commerce platforms in 2019
The official Xinhua news agency reports that the Bank of China’s New York branch will enable Chinese firms to receive payment in Yuan rather than Dollars from their sales on U.S. e-commerce platforms this year. Pledging to introduce more services for small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in cross-border trade between the United States and China, executives from the branch
Joint Industry Statement on Brexit and Parcel Delivery
Ecommerce Europe, Fevad, Thuiswinkel.org, Händlerbund, Netcomm, EshopWedrop, An Post, DPD Group and PostNL have presented a joint statement on Brexit and parcel delivery. They opt that the United Kingdom and the EU27 must keep goods and parcels flow efficiently as cross-border retail has been growing exponentially in Europe over the last decade. The main argument of the