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Intershop launches Commerce-as-a-Service cloud solution
Intershop Communications has announced its new cloud solution: the Intershop Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS). According to Roelof Swiers, Country Manager at Intershop Communications Benelux it offers a cloud-based solution for digitalisation projects....
March 27, 2018
E-commerce in the Nordics: €20.6 billion in 2017
According to research by PostNord, the e-commerce industry in the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) was worth 209,6 billion Swedish kronor, which is 20.6 billion euros in 2017. Up...
March 20, 2018
31% of UK shoppers pay more if m-commerce experience improves
Online retailers can sell more to consumers who shop with their smartphone. The most important thing to do would be to improve the shopping experience via the mobile app. In...
March 13, 2018
E-commerce in the Netherlands: €22.5 billion in 2017
In the Netherlands, e-commerce was worth 22.5 billion euros in 2017. This is a growth of 13 percent compared to the situation one year before. The Dutch made a total...
March 12, 2018
Scottish entrepreneurs boosting British business
According to GS1 UK, there has been a 61% increase in the number of Scottish businesses joining the barcode organisation. Across the United Kingdom, the number of businesses joining the...
February 26, 2018
Report: Germany online
eTail has published their annual report about the online market in Germany. Insights show that customer demands are evolving quicker than many retailers can keep up. With Germany, the biggest...
February 21, 2018
64% of Swedish e-commerce traffic is mobile
Tablet and mobile phone account two-thirds of all e-commerce visits in Sweden. In 2015, the share of mobile and tablet visits was already over 50%. In the last two years,...
February 20, 2018
JD.com is coming to Europe! What to expect?
At the beginning of February, it became clear that the Chinese e-commerce platform JD.com will come to Europe. Following Amazon, Alibaba and Rakuten, this is yet another large platform to...
February 14, 2018
InternetRetailing Expo is back with a focus on omnichannel
How can the retail industry survive (and overcome) the new customers’ demands? In a decade of digital transformation, customer behavior has dramatically changed. In 2017 nearly 20% of UK retail...
February 13, 2018
Retail top 10: no pure online-players in Austria
The ten biggest retail companies in Austria consist solely of companies that use an omnichannel model, selling both online and through physical stores. The first pure play e-tailer in Austria...
February 12, 2018
Zalando: Care for Customers and Partners
This article previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017 Berlin – a blooming and friendly city – building the future that does not forget about its past. It is...
February 5, 2018
Rakuten and Walmart announce strategic alliance
Rakuten and Walmart are about to launch an online grocery delivery service in Japan and a new eBooks and audiobooks offering in the U.S. According to Walmart president and CEO Doug McMillon...
January 30, 2018
Alibaba about to open a logistics center in France
Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant, is about to open a logistics center in France to increase sales of French products on its online trading platforms. The company is currently looking...
January 16, 2018
Marketplaces on top, cross-border surging and merchants feeling confident
This article previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017 Author: Cheng Liem Li, CCO – Payvision & Acapture Since 2014, Payvision has been running the biggest annual global survey...
January 8, 2018
Dutch e-commerce sector worth €22 billion in 2017
The e-commerce turnover in the Netherlands will be worth up to 22 billion by the end of 2017. During the first three quarters, 15.7 billion euro was spent online. Q4...
December 18, 2017
363.439 New European Sellers joined Amazon
According to an article by Ecommerce News, 363.439 European sellers have joined Amazon so far in 2017. This equals to 2,997 new sellers every day, or 124 every hour, or even...
December 11, 2017
Internet Retailing EXPO 2018
Internet Retailing Events was born 11 years ago and has a large portfolio of leading events including our award-winning InternetRetailing Expo. Other events in the brand include eDelivery Expo, InternetRetailing Conference,...
December 8, 2017
Media Markt-Saturn launches online marketplace in Spain
Media Markt-Saturn, a German electronics retail group, will welcome retailers on its online platform in Spain in 2018. Spain will be the only market where Media Markt-Saturn will offer this...
December 5, 2017
Letz’shop: Luxembourg’s national e-commerce platform
Luxembourg will launch LetzShop.lu, a national e-commerce platform which will be created to boost the urban e-commerce. The platform is an initiative of the Ministry of Economy. Economic Interest Group (GIE) is in...
November 28, 2017
Online records on Black Friday
American retailers have sold products for 7,9 billion dollars online last Thursday and Friday. A little over five billion of the turnover came from products sold on Black Friday, concluded...
November 27, 2017
A delightful unpacking experience
This column previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017   Henk Teunissen, CEO and founder of Rivièra Maison talks to us what it means to create an experience on all...
November 22, 2017
Column: Demystifying Product Identifiers
This column previously appeared in Cross-Border Magazine Nr.4, October 2017 Despite working for several global retailers, until recently I was not aware of how the barcode works and the significance of...
November 16, 2017
Digitalisation: a B2B approach
Wholesalers have always pursued a multi-channel strategy. In earlier days, it may have consisted of using a catalog, a brick-and-mortar store and sales representatives. Digitalisation and the Internet resulted in...
November 8, 2017
Research Report: Cross-Border E-commerce Trends in 2017
Payvision and Juniper research have published the findings of its fifth annual cross-border e-commerce research report. The paper includes the results of a global survey of various industry players regarding...
October 31, 2017
Apple Pay is leading in in-store retail in the USA
When it comes to in-store retail in the USA, Apple Pay seems to be leading the charge, beating PayPal. This might be unsurprising on some levels. Apple Pay does permit...
October 27, 2017
25% Growth for E-commerce in Spain
In Spain, e-commerce increased by 24.8 percent year-on-year during the first quarter of 2017. In these three months, 6.8 billion euros was spent online, while the number of transactions increased...
October 16, 2017
The definitive guide to website translation
Did you know that 84% of international consumers say they are more likely to buy from a website with product information in their own language? To compete globally, you need...
October 14, 2017
Neural MT: What it is, and how it impacts translation efficiency
Neural machine translation is going to rock the world in the coming years. What does it better than rule-based or statistical machine translation? A new and more accurate translation method, Neural...
October 11, 2017
More than 800.000 online stores in Europe
Ecommerce News and Dataprovider, a data company, have executed research to find out how many online stores are present in Europe. According to the research, there is a 98% accuracy...
October 9, 2017
EU Commission issues Amazon €250m tax bill
The European Commission is pursuing Amazon for money it owes in taxes. Luxembourg has given Amazon illegal tax advantages, according to Margrethe Vestager, the EU Commissioner in charge of competition....
October 5, 2017
European E-commerce grows 19 percent in 2017
In Europe, e-commerce will increase by 19% in 2017. This is predicted by the Global Ecommerce Association. Only e-commerce in Asia will be growing harder. With Europe having the highest internet...
October 3, 2017
Will Google split off Google Shopping?
Google has decided to split off its shopping service, Google Shopping, to meet demands from the European Union. The European Union wasn’t particularly satisfied with the way Google displayed product search...
September 27, 2017
Russian E-commerce market worth 16 billion euro in 2017
The Russian e-commerce market was worth 7,2 billion euro in the first half of 2017. The Association of Internet Trading Companies and the Russian Post state that this is a...
September 18, 2017
European Consumer Scoreboard 2017: increasing consumers’ trust in e-commerce
The European Commission regularly publishes a Consumer Conditions Scoreboard, which monitors the consumer environment across Europe through three dimensions: compliance and enforcement, complaints and dispute resolution and knowledge and trust....
September 14, 2017
Top 10 Online Shops in Germany: Turnover Amazon.de three times bigger than number 2’s OTTO
Amazon is by far the biggest e-commerce organisation in Germany. Their turnover is three times bigger than number two’s OTTO. Amazon is almost eight times bigger than number three: Zalando....
September 13, 2017
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France has highest online prices in Prisync 100 Index
An online basket was filled with 39 popular summer products in six countries across Europe. It happened to be that the e-commerce industry in France has the highest prices. However, this...
August 30, 2017
Boatsters and Acapture launch the first, end-to-end VR web shop
Available as a white label application, Acapture’s VR web shop solution can be utilized and personalized by any merchant looking to add VR to their offering. The application covers the...
August 28, 2017
Acapture becomes signature member of the Merchant Risk Council
Acapture, a global, data-driven omnichannel PSP, has recently become a member of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC). It joins a community of 450 companies from 30 countries committed to improving...
August 18, 2017
Whitepaper: US Online Marketplaces: What to consider?
The US e-commerce market is thriving as online retail continues to mature and embed itself in shoppers’ psyche. Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers operating in the country face significant cost pressures in...
August 15, 2017
Will the General Data Protection Regulation apply to you?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect on the 25th of May 2018. The Brittish government has confirmed that the UK’s decision to leave the EU will...
July 12, 2017
Ingenico ePayments Partners with French FinTech Company SlimPay on SEPA Direct Debit
Ingenico ePayments, the online and mobile commerce division of Ingenico Group, today announced that it has teamed up with French recurring payments specialist Slimpay to support a SEPA Direct Debit...
June 29, 2017
Zalando gives fashion brands access to its logistics infrastructure
Zalando, Europe’s leading online fashion platform, announced during an open day baptized the "Playday" that it successfully launched Zalando Fulfillment Solutions recently, giving fashion brands access to its logistics infrastructure...
June 20, 2017
E-commerce all around the world: Figures by Ecommerce Foundation
Global B2C e-commerce grew significantly in 2015. Compared to the preceding year, global Internet sales increased by 19.9%, resulting in an online turnover of $2.3 trillion. This positive trend is...
June 8, 2017
7 best packaging practices for e-commerce success
The white paper “7 best packaging practices for e-commerce success” by Ranpak captures the current trends in e-commerce and the resulting practical tips for the best in-the-box packaging. In today’s...
May 29, 2017
Insights, take-aways and innovations from IRX and EDX’s seventh successful year
Birmingham, UK, 21th April 2017 – Over 5,000 tech-savvy visitors from across the globe came together at the NEC for the co-located InternetRetailing Expo (IRX) and eDelivery Expo (EDX) this year. Game-changing...
April 26, 2017
New Acapture Whitepaper outlines trends in cross-border, AI usage and the future of payments
The white paper “Future trends in consumer behavior:  Technology in a connected world 2017-2020” by Acapture explores current consumer trends and preferences and provides tools for merchants to optimize their...
April 20, 2017
 FREE eBook: The Definitive Guide to Website Translation
Research shows that 84% of international consumers say they’re more likely to buy from a website with product information in their own language, which means to compete globally, you need...
March 23, 2017
Insights: Organizing your localization program
The cross-border ecommerce market is expected to more than double within the next five years, reaching $424 billion by 2021. In response, more and more businesses are stepping up their...
March 21, 2017
Transforming Retail. Together.
  Asia’s premier e-commerce event bringing together 400+ retailers has kicked off today! Imagination. Innovation.That’s eTail:  eTail Asia is your one-stop shop for everything multichannel and eCommerce; an event where...
March 7, 2017
Zalando buys  retail chain Kickz
On Wednesday, German online giant Zalando published it’s 2016 results, which showed a slowed down but steady growth rate and a total turnover of €3.64bn. The real news however was...
March 2, 2017
Omni-Channel retail: the goal post keeps moving
Customers’ preferences, lifestyle and the way they are engaging with brands have changed drastically, due to technology and innovation. Customers want their shopping experience to fit around their busy lifestyle,...
January 25, 2017
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