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Amazon France warehouses close for a week
To avoid a potential fine of €1 million per day, Amazon shuts its warehouses in France for a week. This follows a French court ordering Amazon to limit its deliveries...
April 17, 2020
Amazon delays Prime day
Marketplace Amazon postpones its major summer shopping event, Prime Day, according to Reuters. This is due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Usually, the event takes place in July. At this moment,...
April 10, 2020
Otto: sales grow 9%
German retailer Otto continues to grow. For 2019, the mail-order retailer reports an increase in sales of 9% to €3.5 billion. It is for the tenth year in a row...
April 7, 2020
Amazon extends return period, limits stock over 15kg
Amazon temporarily extends its return period and limits stock weights for products that require two people to pick, pack or ship. This is a consequence of new measurements for the...
March 31, 2020
Amazon India temporarily stops shipping non-essential items to India
In line with earlier reports, Amazon India announced it temporarily discontinues accepting orders for low-priority products. This to prioritise urgent products such as household staples, health care and product safety...
March 25, 2020
Amazon to hire 100,000 new employees to support their service
Amazon hires up to 100,000 new employees to support the delivery of goods and critical supplies. As the online demand increases due to social distancing and self-isolation because of COVID-19,...
March 23, 2020
ChannelAdvisor adds support for brands and retailers on Amazon.nl
Cloud-based e-commerce solutions provider ChannelAdvisor announced its support for Amazon.nl. This enables merchants with a European unified account to directly list and sell their products on the new Dutch marketplace....
March 23, 2020
Amazon is Suspending inbound FBA Shipments due to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
In response to the recent developments related to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), Amazon just announced it will block inbound shipments to their warehouse, reports ChannelEngine. A select number of categories is...
March 17, 2020
Amazon launches in the Netherlands
Amazon officially launched its marketplace in the Netherlands. In the past, it offered only e-books and e-readers. The Amazon.nl platform now offers a greater product selection, intensifying the competition with...
March 11, 2020
eBay looking to sell South Korean unit Gmarket
eBay is looking to sell its South Korean unit. This includes Gmarket, one of the largest online marketplaces in the country. A Seoul-based newspaper reports the company is looking for...
March 6, 2020
Alibaba Group buys small stake in Klarna
Ant Financial, an affiliate of Alibaba Group, takes a small take in Swedish payment service provider Klarna. Klarna is Europe's most valuable fintech company. With this acquisition, the two companies...
March 5, 2020
Allegro: €230 million investment in logistics and IT
Polish retailer and marketplace Allegro invests around €230 million (PLN 1 billion) in its ecosystem, reports Internet Retailing. The investment particularly focuses on logistics and IT, as it seeks to...
March 4, 2020
Zalando: 4.6 million new customers in 2019
In 2019, German fashion platform Zalando welcomed 4.6 million new customers. This makes a total of 31 million, an increase of 17% compared to 2018. All of these customers purchased...
March 3, 2020
Amazon Business Prime launched in Spain
Amazon Business Prime has launched in Spain. Spain is the fourth market in Europe where this premium service can now be used by businesses. Customers can get unlimited free delivery...
February 28, 2020
Zalando opens its third warehouse in Poland
German fashion platform Zalando has opened its third fulfilment centre in Poland. The new logistics location is meant to serve all of the online fashion platform's markets. In total, Zalando...
February 26, 2020
Amazon quits collaboration delivery service providers
Amazon ends relationships with a number of small delivery contractors across the United States. This forces these companies to lay off hundreds of workers. Logistics partner Bear Down Logistics cuts...
February 18, 2020
Muloot acquires Pivot in major boon to marketplace traders
Muloot, an e-commerce business growth agency, announced it has acquired Pivot International, an outsource marketplace services organisation, to enhance its multi-layered global expansion services for marketplaces and marketplace merchants. The...
February 14, 2020
Alibaba Group Announces Q4-2019 Results
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group announced its financial results for the quarter ended December 31st, 2019. The company experienced robust growth across its business in the past quarter. Daniel Zhang,...
February 14, 2020
Rwandan startup launches e-commerce marketplace platform: Iduka Online
Panatech, an online startup from Rwanda, launched a new online marketplace. The e-commerce marketplace is called Iduka Online and allows users to buy and sell goods in various categories. Amongst...
February 12, 2020
Zalando Plus launches in France
Fashion platform Zalando introduces its membership program, Zalando Plus, for selected customers in the Paris area, France. The program offers benefits along the entire customer journey aimed at making shopping...
February 10, 2020
New entry biggest e-commerce websites in the world: Allegro
Polish e-commerce company Allegro entered the top 10 list of biggest e-commerce websites in the world, in terms of monthly visits. The e-commerce platform from Poland welcomes close to 194 million...
February 10, 2020
Amazon.com: Q4 Sales up 21% to $87.4 Billion
Amazon.com announced its financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2019. Net sales increased with 21%, to $87.4 billion in the fourth quarter compared to $72.4 billion in...
February 3, 2020
Amazon start collecting VAT in more European countries
Residents of Armenia, Norway and Switzerland are charged VAT by Amazon from the 1st of January 2020, reports Tamebay. This is due to regulation changes in these countries. When non-resident...
January 8, 2020
Amazon and eBay account for 40% of UK e-commerce
The 2019 e-commerce market in the United Kingdom has been dominated by Amazon and eBay, according to insights from Edge by Ascential. The two e-commerce giants have a market share...
January 6, 2020
Amazon.com to open new distribution center in Northeastern Brazil in 2020
American marketplace giant Amazon says it will open a new distribution centre in Brazil. It will be located in the northeastern state of Pernambuco. The new warehouse is the second...
December 16, 2019
Japanese Marketplace app Mercari brings cross-border C2C sales to over 100 countries
Mid-November, the Japanese marketplace app Mercari began offering cross-border sales through its consumer-to-consumer (C2C) marketplace app. It did this in partnership with Buyee, a proxy service for cross-border e-commerce. Mercari is...
December 5, 2019
Amazon: 3 million active sellers
Amazon is close to 3 million active sellers on all its marketplaces worldwide, reports MarketplacePulse. This is an increase of 17.7%. A seller is defined active if they have products...
November 29, 2019
Amazon opens pop-up store on China's Pinduoduo until the end of 2019
Amazon.com on Monday said it will open a pop-up store on Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo. This store will run until the end of December and carry a selection of about...
November 26, 2019
AliExpress offers click-and-collect at El Corte Inglés in 2020
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will boost its partnership with El Corte Inglés. The large department store group will offer click-and-collect for AliExpress customers early next year. From that moment, customers...
November 20, 2019
TheMarket.com unveils new subscription model, free Xmas trial
TheMarket.com, backed by New-Zealand retail giant The Warehouse Group, unveiled a new subscription model set to further up the game for e-commerce in New Zealand. Referred to as ‘TheMarket Club’, customers who...
November 13, 2019
Amazon: Black Friday 2019 lasts more than a week
On Amazon UK, this year's Black Friday sale will be longer than ever. The marketplaces announced that this year's Black Friday will last for over a week, running for a...
November 8, 2019
Alibaba Group Announces Q3 2019 Results
The Alibaba Group announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2019. The Chinese marketplace giant reported a better-than-expected 40% rise in revenue, powered by strong growth in its...
November 5, 2019
Bol.com curates 6,500 ecologically friendly gifts
The largest marketplace in the Netherlands, Bol.com, launched a curated sustainable assortment of products in time for the Black Friday and Christmas season. Whilst it’s a relatively small selection of 6,500...
November 4, 2019
Zalando Goes Carbon Neutral
Fashion platform Zalando commits to carbon neutrality in its own operations and all deliveries and returns as of October 30th. This includes self-operated properties, parcel transportation and packaging. The pledge is...
November 1, 2019
ASOS faces disappointing financial and operating performance in 2019
ASOS presented its financial and operating results, which did not live up to expectations this year. The company undertook a huge investment in transitioning itself into a business with a...
October 28, 2019
Amazon launches Amazon.sg
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon.sg, introducing a local Amazon shop in Singapore on desktop, mobile browser and as a shopping app. Customers can buy millions of products from categories such as books,...
October 11, 2019
Four marketplaces launch pan-European marketplace
In Europe, four leading marketplaces launched a pan-European marketplace platform, reports Tamebay. The European marketplace alliance includes Cdiscount (France), real.de (Germany), eMAG (Romania) and ePrice (Italy).  It will create a unique...
October 4, 2019
German marketplaces: dealers, get a VAT certificate
Starting next week on October 1st, European based online retailers that sell to German consumers must provide any marketplaces they are active on with a German VAT certificate. They can...
September 27, 2019
Amazon FBA repackaging service can no longer be disabled
Amazon has made its Amazon Fulfilment by Amazon (FbA) Repackaging service, which used to be an option, mandatory, reports Tambay. The service is designed by Amazon to take care of...
September 20, 2019
Alibaba: luxury push with buy of Netease e-commerce arm
Alibaba Group agreed to buy e-commerce business Kaola from Chinese gameplay company NetEase for $2 billion. With the buy, the Chinese e-commerce giant adds a platform that specialises in supplying...
September 19, 2019
Zalando: pilot reusable packaging in the Nordics
Zalando and Finnish startup RePack are testing with reusable packaging in the Nordics. For a period of four weeks, 10.000 customers living in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden will receive...
September 17, 2019
Green light to free returns on AliExpress in eight countries
Alibaba Group started to allow merchants who are trading on AliExpress to offer their shoppers free returns in eight countries. When the pilot is successful Alibaba Group might rollout this...
September 12, 2019
Amazon launches Prime service in challenging Brazil market
Amazon.com will launch its Prime subscription service in Brazil as it seeks to broaden its footprint in Latin America’s largest economy. Up to now, the marketplace giant has struggled against...
September 11, 2019
Effect of new German tax-law on Amazon sellers
A new German law obliges cross-border sellers in Germany that sell on marketplaces such as Amazon to take action before 1st October, 2019. Sellers who did not take action to...
September 10, 2019
MediaMarkt offers its customers in-store smartphone navigation
Since the end of July, MediaMarkt is testing applications in in-store navigation and location-based services for the first time in Germany: In Gründau-Lieblos in Hesse, customers can use their smartphones...
September 6, 2019
TheMarket: new marketplace platform in New-Zealand
The Warehouse Group has launched a new e-commerce marketplace called TheMarket in New-Zealand, an online shopping platform that brings local, international and niche brands together in one place, offering Kiwis...
August 23, 2019
Lady Gaga and Amazon were born to collaborate
Amazon will be launching Lady Gaga’s new makeup line, Haus Laboratories. Celebrities launching a new makeup line is not shocking news- what did stand out is that the new line...
July 19, 2019
The power of Alibaba
China's consumers are the driving force behind the economic growth of the country in 2019. Alibaba is one of the fastest growers and is the undisputed number one in online...
July 16, 2019
Russian SPUTNIK marketplace set to launch this autumn
New Russian marketplace SPUTNIK is set to launch this autumn. According to the platform, it aims to sell "trustworthy" goods to Russian consumers. The product range will consist of a...
July 11, 2019
Zalando adds 50 private pick-up and drop-off points in Denmark
European fashion marketplace Zalando collaborated with PostNord to open up to 50 private pick-up and drop-off points. The pilot is managed by Zalando’s Dutch partner, Homer. The pick-up and drop-off...
July 10, 2019
Amazon leads online grocery market, but remains a modest player
Amazon is currently leading the online shopping market in the United States. According to Bloomberg, the online retailer’s turnover of 2018 was worth at least 25.4 billion dollars. However, Brick...
July 5, 2019
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