Tour around Polish e-commerce market square

by Karolina Dryja in e-commerce

Post image for Tour around Polish e-commerce market square

Lately, there’s quite some buzz around e-commerce market in Poland. We could read some news and statistics on such portals as e-commercefacts.com or internetretailer.com and also there was a nice compilation of the news on our blog. The point is that all of them lead to a conclusion that Poles are increasingly shopping online. How was that possible? And more interestingly, what are the perspectives? [click to continue…]

Be aware the tablet shopper is near!

by Peter Horsten 02.04.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Be aware the tablet shopper is near!

Mobile increasingly becomes a part of the customer journey before his final decision about a purchase and where to make it. You see them visiting your shop, meanwhile surfing the Internet through a mobile browser to check your competition. If you study your website’s or webshop’s analytics, you will surely notice a similar trend. Mobile [...]

Read the full article →

Wehkamp.nl no longer for sale

by Peter Horsten 27.03.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Wehkamp.nl no longer for sale

RFS Holland Holding, owner of Wehkamp.nl, is no longer for sale. The number 1 web shop in the Dutch market has decided it will be better to stay independent. Curious as we are we wonder what has caused this change, knowing they were evaluating the received offers already. Weren’t these offers good enough? Did the [...]

Read the full article →

Synchronizing data between multiple systems

by Pawel Bejger 03.03.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Synchronizing data between multiple systems

Nowadays many e-commerce companies own more than one system for handling their business. This is usually an online store, but also an ERP system for storing the data such as products, customers or invoices. It goes without saying that such data as products’ prices and current supply have to be synchronized. Otherwise, someone might e.g. buy [...]

Read the full article →

Ahold becomes the leading e-retailer in The Netherlands by acquiring bol.com

by Peter Horsten 27.02.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Ahold becomes the leading e-retailer in The Netherlands by acquiring bol.com

This morning’s announcement by Ahold came as a surprise. Where many specialists in the retail industry asumed Ahold would buy Wehkamp.nl (number 1 in the Twinkle100), Ahold decided different, they acquired bol.com (number 2 of the Twinkle100) for €350 million in cash. Ahold (3rd in the Twinkle100) and bol.com together are the biggest e-retailer in [...]

Read the full article →

A recipe for an m-s-commerce strategy

by Karolina Dryja 27.02.2012 f-commerce
Thumbnail image for A recipe for an m-s-commerce strategy

Mobile commerce has been lately predicted to grow up to $31 billion by 2015 (Emarketer Inc.) in the USA. The term m-commerce is also one of the most popular words connected to retail. It concerns not only shopping online but apparently even the in-store shopping. Although it’s so powerful, don’t let yourself treat it as [...]

Read the full article →

Love is in the e-commerce air!

by Karolina Dryja 11.02.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Love is in the e-commerce air!

Browsing through the web shops lately you may get vertigo from all this red and pink all around. That’s right, Valentines is coming. For some it’s a celebration of love and for some another commercial event. The second is definitely true and as such should be cherished by e-retailers. This time I’ve been looking around [...]

Read the full article →

Design for the ultimate shopping experience

by Peter Horsten 01.02.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Design for the ultimate shopping experience

There are many e-commerce platforms available out there. Years ago a retailer would be more than happy to have a webshop based on some fixed template. They were probably more functionality than design oriented. But this is dramatically changing. In today’s competitive e-commerce market the online store has to look good to give the buyer [...]

Read the full article →

Biggest Dutch internet retailer Wehkamp.nl for sale

by Peter Horsten 26.01.2012 e-commerce
Thumbnail image for Biggest Dutch internet retailer Wehkamp.nl for sale

Dutch privately-owned online retailer Wehkamp.nl is up on sale and has attracted interest from several parties. Rumors and “internal sources” claim companies such as Amazon.com and their Dutch rival Bol.com are interested. Most probably a new owner could be the Dutch food retailer Albert Heijn, who is lacking a successful non-food strategy. The fact is that [...]

Read the full article →

How to Make an Auction a Golden Mine!

by Karolina Dryja 24.01.2012 e-commerce

Auctions are a bit like gambling, with one difference – the client doesn’t lose money in the end. Through an online auction we provide our customers not only with great bargains but also with the thrill and a feeling of competition. No wonder ebay.com gained over 9 billion US$ revenue in 2010 and is an [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries