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 listed for sale on the marketplace platform. Less than 10% of all active sellers are able to achieve $100,000 in yearly sales. On top of that, only 1% reached the $1 million sales mark. This
4eCom – Milan, 23 January 2020
On the 23rd of January, 2020, the third edition of 4eCom will take place in Milan, Italy. The e-commerce event was born from a collaboration between Qapla', Transactionale and Competitoor. For the 2020 edition, these three digital solution providers for e-commerce partnered with Intergic, to scale up the event that will be entitle "The Voice of E-commerce". During this third
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 online retail platform for the four vendors. The platform is the first fully integrated European marketplace of its kind. It will
Zalando to charge money for delivery
Following a recent decision by H&M to limit free shipping, Zalando will now no longer ship ordered products for free as a standard. In Spain, Ireland and the United Kingdom, the company starts requesting fees for the delivery of small packages. One of the reasons that Zalando grew big in the past couple of years was their flexible return policy (free up to 100 days).
Italy targets Amazon Italia over abuse of market position
The competition authority in Italy announced that they will start an investigation. It is regarding Amazon Italia’s dominance abuse in the e-commerce logistics industry. The company is now facing a globally increasing regulatory examination. According to the watchdog, they will investigate five of Amazon group’s companies. They are Amazon EU, Amazon Italia Services, Amazon