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| 12/7/2007 |
DSW Inc. will launch comprehensive e-commerce site |
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Specialty shoe retailer DSW Inc. will launch its first-ever comprehensive e-commerce site next year. |
| 11/28/2007 |
Online sales grow over 20% on Cyber Monday |
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Online retail sales on the Monday after Thanksgiving reached $733 million, up 20.6% from the $608 million spent on the same day last year, comScore Networks Inc. reports. |
| 11/14/2007 |
Shoppers are researching Black Friday sites |
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The Friday after Thanksgiving has always meant a stack of newspaper inserts to promote sales and get shoppers into stores. Now shoppers are also researching Black Friday sites, which publish advanced copies of retail circulars. |
| 9/19/2007 |
Pressure to look good is greater than ever before |
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Two-thirds of US consumers agree that the pressure to look good is greater than ever before, according to Nielsen//Netratings.
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| 9/19/2007 |
Users dependency on e-commerce grows |
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Nearly nine in 10 consumers who conduct online transactions have experienced problems, according to a Tealeaf-commissioned study conducted by Harris Interactive. |
| 8/1/2007 |
E-commerce sales rebounded solidly in Q2 |
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Online retail sales in the second quarter grew 23% over Q2 a year ago, reaching $27.2 billion from $22.2 billion, comScore Networks Inc. reports. |
| 7/30/2007 |
European e-commerce annual growth rate is up |
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European B2C e-commerce is growing in waves.
With an annual growth rate of 25% over the next four years, the market will triple in size by 2011, reaching $407 billion |
| 6/26/2007 |
Customers loyalty is impacted by customer service |
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Call centers can help companies reach out to customers as well as answering their questions, suggests a new survey. 84% of consumers participating in the survey said they would like to receive proactive communication from their suppliers, and 76% said they would like to hear about other products and services a company offers. |
| 6/25/2007 |
German retail e-commerce sales hit $23.9 billion in 2006 |
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Germany is home to Europe's largest online population, and it is still growing. |
| 5/22/2007 |
Retailers convincing female online shoppers to make purchases online |
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Online retailers have done a good job convincing female online shoppers to make purchases online, judging by a Consumer Reports National Research Center report conducted for ShopSmart.
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| 5/18/2007 |
Discoverystore.com focusing on the Internet |
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Discovery Communications, best known for its more than 100 television networks including Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, has announced it will close its 103 mall-based and standalone stores and lay off 1,000 employees, 25% of its work force. |
| 2/21/2007 |
Expense of handling International Orders obstacle to global Ecommerce |
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87% of companies polled at a recent retail e-commerce affiliate conference said they would like to sell to non-U.S. markets, but 79% said their overseas business amounted to 0-10% of total sales, World Market Express reports. |
| 2/20/2007 |
Customer satisfaction with e-commerce surpassed that of offline retail |
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Customer satisfaction with e-commerce surpassed that of offline retail by 11.6 percent. That's according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index released jointly by the University of Michigan and ForeSee Results.
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| 1/15/2007 |
Ecommerce Development gives new ways to research |
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Auto dealers, once the e-commerce slowpokes on the information super highway, are catching up nicely with new web site upgrades that give vehicle shoppers multiple ways to interact online with retailers and manufacturers, according to new research from the National Automobile Dealers Association. |
| 1/8/2007 |
2006 online holiday e-commerce sales up 26% over 2005 -E-commercce |
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E-commerce revenues for one year over $100 billion?
Yup. That's what happened last year, 2006.
A barrier has been broken. Maybe, finally, people will forget all about that little bubble burst around the turn of the century and admit that e-commerce is for real — and it is going to just keep growing. Almost anyone who sells anything should be selling (at least part of what they sell) online.
Holiday sales made the point, emphatically.
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| 12/4/2006 |
E-commerce-Increased comfort with purchasing |
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Year-over-year growth in November online retail sales, at 24%, outpaced the rise in the number of visits to retail web sites, resulting in an increase of about 11% in per-visit spending, comScore Networks Inc. reports. |
| 10/5/2006 |
Online Holiday Shopping Starting Early This Year |
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The holidays are starting early this year—online. A survey of consumers and multi-channel merchants by Shop.org and Shopzilla shows that more than one-third of consumers will start holiday buying by Halloween. More than 60% of retailers will start holiday promotions by early November, and most plan to increase e-mail and search marketing over last year as part of that.
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| 6/14/2006 |
Scandinavian Countries Take the Lead in E-Commerce |
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According to Insites Consulting, a European market researcher, in most European countries at least half the internet users |
| 6/13/2006 |
Internet Marketing - Family Plans Boost Mobile Growth |
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Mobile phone subscription growth is picking up pace in the family plan category in North America. A group of reports issued by the Yankee Group reveal findings from a series mobile user surveys. |
| 6/9/2006 |
eBay enters joint venture to launch a marketplace in Taiwan |
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Ebay Inc is expanding in Southeast Asia and has formed a joint venture with PChome Online to launch an e-Commerce site for buyers and sellers in Taiwan. This new venture will be a co-branded e-commerce site. |
| 6/8/2006 |
Borders Group attracts 6 million rewards members in two months |
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With competition in book-selling ranging from bookstore chains, to big-box discount chains to drugstores and newsstands, Borders Group is using rich media and an online loyalty program that attracted 6 million members in its first two months to engage customers as a source of knowledge and entertainment, executives said at the Internet Retailer 2006 Conference. |
| 6/8/2006 |
Common anti-fraud measures are becoming less effective - eCommerce Business |
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Some of the anti-fraud measures most commonly used by online merchants are losing their effectiveness, says Julie Fergerson, vice president of emerging technologies for Debix Inc. and a member of the board of the Merchant Risk Council. |
| 6/7/2006 |
Yahoo Buys into South Korean E-Commerce Market |
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Yahoo will buy a 10 percent stake in South Korea's No.2 online retailer, Gmarket, and thus not only gain a foothold in one of Asia's fastest-growing e-commerce markets but also confront eBay, which has long dominated the country's $11 billion online retail industry, reports Reuters. |
| 4/26/2006 |
Consumer products retailers lead in high broadband response time |
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Gomez notes that customers with a high broadband connection could visit a consumer products retailer |
| 4/17/2006 |
eCommerce Development - Illegal Downloading Down |
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In what has to be music to the ears of audio and video media publishers, a new survey sponsored by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), and conducted by Harris Interactive, indicates that the number of young Internet users who illegally download online content has fallen by 17 percentage points in the last two years. |
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