Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a ...
Market research on the retailing industry. Our reports feature a wealth of standardised and cross-comparable statistics including total market sizes, market share and brand share data, distribution and industry trends.
The make-up of e-commerce in Uruguay and the current retail environment has resulted in third party merchants holding considerable value share in the channel. Beyond those third party merchants, grocery retailers have a strong share. Henderson &…
Already recording dynamic growth over the review period, retail e-commerce received a significant boost to sales in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic and subsequent restrictions imposed on both the population and non-essential store-based retailers.…
E-commerce continued to develop in 2022, with significant growth in sales, but at a much slower rate than in the previous year, and far from the spectacular growth that occurred in 2020 fuelled by the pandemic. In the last two years of the review…
E-commerce has gained considerable momentum due to the economic recovery of activities and the confidence with which consumers have adapted to digital tools and virtual channels. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic fostered rapid progress in the…
E-commerce continued to see strong retail current growth in Austria in 2022. Growth was faster than in 2021, but slower than in 2020, which was characterised by a strong shift from retail offline toe-commerce due to the effects of the Coronavirus…
Retail e-commerce saw its sales skyrocket in Norway in current value terms in 2020, with increases in all categories and across all geographical areas. This was thanks to high penetration of the internet and smartphone devices, fears of visiting high…
Unsurprisingly, e-commerce already performed better than overall retail in Finland even before COVID-19. The move from offline to online impacted the sales of offline channels and changed offline outlets – blurring the boundaries between online and…
Retail e-commerce posted a decline in current value terms in 2022, due to the simultaneous impact of several factors. Following the continuation of the channel’s strong growth path in the first weeks of the year, e-commerce sales suddenly stalled due…
Retail e-commerce continued to perform strongly, and registered double-digit constant value growth, in spite of high inflation. Increasing internet penetration supported value growth. Mobile payments are also increasing, with the unbanked population…
Retail e-commerce experienced sales declines in 2022 as local consumers returned to physical stores on a more regular basis as society reopened, in line with falling cases of COVID-19 and rising confidence due to higher vaccination rates. The decline…
Historically, online spending by Ecuadorians has been primarily focused on services and entertainment. However, consumption patterns in this area changed dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, with people increasingly choosing to purchase…
Clicky, a fast-fashion e-commerce platform focused on apparel, footwear and accessories, has received investments from notable investors such as Fatima Ventures and Souq, a UAE-based company that was later acquired by Amazon. In December 2021, the…
While retail e-commerce continued to see strong double-digit current value growth in Chile in 2022, the reality is that with the massive effect of inflation on prices across all categories, real growth was greatly diminished. While consumers did not…
E-commerce recorded strong growth in 2020 and 2021, aided by the impact of the pandemic, restrictions on the operations of physical stores (including the temporary closure of non-essential brick-and-mortar outlets) and consumers' reluctance to leave…
After recording double-digit growth over the 2020-21 period, retail value sales via retail e-commerce slowed down in 2022. This was linked to the lifting of social distancing measures and the return to physical stores, as well as the rise in delivery…
Sendy launched a payment on delivery product for e-commerce and social commerce vendors in Africa, with this including Kenya. This is seen as a significant new product as it overcomes security concerns some consumers still have about shopping online,…
E-commerce is the big winner in retail, with the channel stimulated by the event of the pandemic, and with consumers continuing to embrace all the benefits which online shopping offers. Indeed, it is consumer satisfaction in e-commerce in Slovenia…
E-commerce in Denmark saw exceptional double-digit current value growth in 2020 and 2021. This was due to the closure of shopping centres and department stores as waves of COVID-19 hit the country. Online shopping also provided consumers with the…
In 2020, the community group buying model emerged as a popular e-commerce trend in China, to solve the inconvenience caused by COVID-19 lockdowns. Neighbourhood committees created WeChat groups to gather residents’ shopping lists, and online orders…
At first sight, overall e-commerce seemed to do well in 2022. However, this situation hides a strong contrast between skyrocketing sales of online services, and collapsing retail e-commerce revenues. During most of the last decade, retail e-commerce…