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Foreign websites dominate the Estonian e-commerce market
The Estonian e-commerce market continues to grow. Compared to 2017, the volume of online purchases made with debit cards increased by more than 50%. Estonian sellers only slightly benefit, as...
March 12, 2020
New VAT regulations in Norway
Starting April 1st, 2020, Norway introduces new VAT regulations on inbound distance sales. The rules are very similar to those already in place in Australia and New Zealand. Norway Cross-border...
March 11, 2020
E-commerce Belgium: €8.2 billion in 2019
In Belgium, online stores generated a total turnover of €8.2 billion in 2019. This is an increase of 17% compared to 2018. Noteworthy is that more than 25% of all...
March 9, 2020
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Camaïeu closes 135 international stores
French women fashion retailer Camaïeu is planning to close 135 stores outside of its home market. A few markets seem to stay out of reach. Examples are the BeNeLux and...
March 9, 2020
PepsiCo buys Chinese Be & Cheery
PepsiCo, Inc. an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation agreed to buy Chinese snack brand Be & Cheery. It purchases the brand from local jujube maker Haoxiangni Health Food...
February 26, 2020
Germany: destroying products more difficult
The German cabinet launched a draft law aiming to improve waste avoidance and increase recycling. It is an amendment to the Circular Economy Act. For online retailers this means the...
February 19, 2020
Peak season: 20% of annual sales achieved in only eight weeks
In many markets, Black Friday is now bigger than Christmas, shows data from a GfK POS study. The combination of Black Friday, Christmas and post-Christmas account for one-fifth of all...
February 19, 2020
European Union Opens Trade Door to Vietnam but closes it to Cambodia
The European Union agreed to open its markets wider to Vietnam, reports Reuters. At the same time, Cambodia sees its trade doors more closed. This is a reward for the...
February 18, 2020
Sweden: online grocery market grows 21.9%
The Swedish grocery trade market showed growth over the full year 2019. This can be concluded from the monthly published Swedish Grocery Index. Compared to a year before, all months...
February 12, 2020
Consumer protection: European Deal on Faulty Products
Both online and brick-and-mortar consumers will be entitled to equal remedies in case they purchase faulty products. This is what new European guidelines agreed on last Tuesday. The new directive...
February 5, 2020
Improving data quality is key to reduce returns in 2020
Returns are a bit like death and taxes – there’s no chance of avoiding them. While they occur due to a multitude of factors, many outside the retailer’s control, there...
February 4, 2020
E-commerce market India to surpass $91bn in 2023
Research conducted by GlobalData predicts that India's e-commerce market is set to surpass $91 billion in 2023. Overall, the transaction value of India's e-commerce market is projected to grow from...
January 29, 2020
E-commerce United Kingdom: +6.7% in 2019
Online retail sales growth in the United Kingdom spiked to +9.4% year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in December 2019. This brings last year to a positive close with a surprisingly strong Christmas trading...
January 27, 2020
The time for IoT and mobility solutions is now!
Mobile technology is perceived as the most effective way to provide a faster shopping experience by 67,3% of consumers in four key markets. This is concluded from research performed by...
January 13, 2020
The UK is likely to leave the EU VAT regime on 31 December 2020
Avalara predicts that, following the United Kingdom Conservative national election win mid-December 2019, the United Kingdom will push ahead with the Withdrawal Agreement ('WA'). It is likely to plan to...
January 7, 2020
OK Google, order tomatoes!
Swedish wholesaler Martin & Servera yet again raised the bar in their attempt to fulfil their customer’s needs: They connected the Google voice assistant to their e-commerce system, which is...
December 17, 2019
New record high cyber weekend spendings in the US
In the United States, the Cyber weekend - again - reached new heights. On Black Friday, turnover in the US reached at least 7.4 billion dollars. This is an increase...
December 4, 2019
German retailers and Black Friday. A mismatch?
In Germany, Black Friday has become increasingly popular over the years. Numerous online and brick-and-mortar retailers throw around discounts. Many retailers, though, prefer there was no Black Friday at all....
November 19, 2019
Black Friday Cybersecurity for Retailers
Once just an American tradition, Black Friday sales have quickly spread across the world as retailers attempt to take advantage of the holiday season to shift high-value stock and build...
November 14, 2019
Singles' Day records smashed in 2019
After 24 hours of intense buying and selling, along with weeks of advertising the promote the event, the Chinese market is calming down after another record-breaking Singles' Day. The Alibaba...
November 12, 2019
Progressive Web Apps: Merge 2 into 1!
There is a feasible pressure to innovate e-commerce. This is further intensified by the influence of mobile commerce. It is no longer sufficient to simply offer an online shop in...
November 11, 2019
Turnover Singles Day to 37 billion dollars
Chinese marketplace Alibaba expects a great deal from this years' Singles Day. It predicted that 100 million more Chinese will place and online order compared to 2018. In the Chinese...
November 11, 2019
Japan wants to go cashless
One of the most tech-savvy countries in the world, Japan, wants to go cashless. Despite its numerous technological innovations, the payment market is still very much focused on cash. Reuters...
November 6, 2019
Shopify Announces Q3 2019 Financial Results
Shopify announced strong financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2019. Total revenue in the third quarter was $390.6 million, a 45% increase from the comparable quarter in 2018. Shopify also surpassed...
October 30, 2019
European Commission review and evaluation of GDPR
The Finnish Presidency of the EU Council announced the Council of the European Union will prepare an evaluation of the implementation of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by...
October 17, 2019
No deal Brexit is no joke
Negotiations on Brexit continue and as no-one is sure what the outcome will be, there are a lot of insecurities for European and British retailers. How will it affect their...
October 9, 2019
France to refuse Facebook's Libra in Europe
The France finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said that Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency cannot be allowed to operate in Europe while concerns persist about sovereignty, systemic financial risks and the risk...
September 18, 2019
4 million litre water reduction in Mango’s jeans production
Fashion retailer Mango introduced new production procedures for its SS19 jeans collection. The company has already succeeded in having 38% sustainable characteristics in their jeans collection and is launching its...
July 10, 2019
Demand for online marketplaces driven by lower-tier Chinese consumers
A report by Invesco about how China’s lower-tier cities are stepping up in consumption says that demand for online marketplaces is driven by lower-tier Chinese consumers. This shift allows merchants...
June 19, 2019
Fake influencers will soon get caught
According to Bas van Teylingen, chief creative officer and partner at online video agency Online Cookie Collective, it will not take long for fake influencers to get caught. Influencer marketing...
June 17, 2019
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Peek & Cloppenburg opens webshop in the Netherlands
Peek & Cloppenburg announced last December that a Dutch webshop will be launched. The webshop is now expected to open this upcoming autumn. Unlike in Germany, there are no plans...
June 13, 2019
Consumer-trust in France beat forecasted rise in May
According to INSEE, a French statistics agency, the confidence levels of consumers in France have risen faster than expected for the month of May. The levels have now beaten the...
June 6, 2019
Farfetch gives designer bags second life
Luxury marketplace Farfetch has introduced Farfetch Second Life: an initiative to give designer bags a second life. Customers can exchange their beloved handbags for credit. You can use this credit...
May 23, 2019
Lidl starts selling groceries online in Spain
Lidl recently started selling its groceries online in Spain. For now, the delivery of fresh foods is only available in Madrid. To get the products to customers’ homes, Lidl is...
May 22, 2019
European webshops convert 1.6 billion in the Netherlands
Dutch consumers bought around 1.6 billion euros (excluding VAT) from European webshops last year. This is a 17 % increase in comparison to 2017. In the fourth quarter of 2018,...
May 9, 2019
Apple profit 5% lower than last year
Apple announced financial results for the first quarter of 2019. They have reached an $11.56 billion profit in the first quarter on sales of 58 billion. This profit is within...
May 8, 2019
Ability to physically see products increasingly important
When consumers choose to buy a product offline instead of on an online shop, it is mainly because they prefer to see the products they want to purchase in real...
May 7, 2019
German e-commerce will grow 57.8 billion in 2019
German e-commerce will predictably increase by 9% in 2019. If the prediction becomes true, the German e-commerce industry will be worth 57.8 billion euros at the end of this year....
May 6, 2019
Amazon to partially shut down in China during this upcoming summer
Amazon is closing its online marketplace in China for the upcoming summer. As of July 18th, Chinese companies are no longer able to sell items through Amazon.cn. Chinese consumers can...
May 1, 2019
Facebook is hosting cyber criminal marketplaces
Stolen goods are being traded and sold on Facebook’s dozens of cybercriminal marketplaces, according to Cisco Talos, a cyber threat security firm. It is not the first time Facebook has encountered...
May 1, 2019
310 million dollar investment in plant-based meat replacements
Over the past couple of weeks, millions of dollars have been dedicated to meat substitutes that are plant-based. Tofurky has accepted its first private investment ever as well. The largest...
April 19, 2019
Apple Music tops Spotify in US paid subscribers
Apple Music has bested Spotify in the amount of paid US subscribers, according to The Wall Street Journal. Apple Music counted an estimated 28 million paid subscriptions in February 2019....
April 18, 2019
H&M to limit free shipping because of sustainability
H&M, a clothing retailer with shops present in over 70 countries globally, decided that free shipping is unsustainable for profitability. In sixteen of the countries that the retailer operates in,...
April 17, 2019
Walmart fights online retail by adding thousands of in-shop robots
While its employees are receiving more time to help customers, the company is going to add thousands of robots to help with simple jobs. Online retailers such as Amazon put...
April 15, 2019
Amazon comes up with new e-commerce tools and services
For small and mid-sized enterprises that are selling on Amazon’s platform, the company is providing new assistance. Amazon has already released 50 new services and e-commerce tools during 2019 to...
April 12, 2019
Indonesia Fastest Rising E-commerce Country
By reducing entry obstacles and making scalability easy, the sector has enabled business owners to grow online and reach new customers. Over 10% of the 270 million people living in Indonesia...
April 11, 2019
Decathlon launches sharing platform for sports equipment
The French sporting goods retailer Decathlon has launched a new application on which consumers can exchange sports equipment. The company currently owns more than 1500 stores in 49 countries. It...
April 10, 2019
Paypal Cross-Border Consumer Research 2018
Well-known payment provider PayPal carried out an annual survey in collaboration with Ipsos on cross border purchases by consumers worldwide. For this Cross-Border Consumer Research in 2018, they collected survey...
April 9, 2019
Amazon Retail receives $35 million from parent to improve in food e-commerce
Multinational marketplace platform Amazon invests approximately 35 million dollars (240 Crores in Indian Rupees) into Amazon Retail India’s food e-commerce arm. The Indian department includes the Amazon Now and Amazon Pantry...
April 8, 2019
Fraud fears unnecessary limit cross‑border e-commerce
Demand from online shoppers globally to purchase from US retailers is high. However, a lot of retailers reject foreign e-commerce orders automatically. By carefully planning and choosing familiar markets, retailers...
April 8, 2019
eBay starts retail of online groceries in Australia
eBay and the 100-year old Coles Supermarket chain in Australia extend their partnership to launch the first full-blown online grocery business, reports Tamebay. The marketplace platform hopes to attract more...
March 29, 2019
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