Monthly Archives: October 2008

Oct30

Shop.org November Webinars – Don’t Miss Them

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: October 30, 2008
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Greetings everyone! In our continued effort to deliver innovative content to our membership we will be offering two new webinars in November that is free for all Shop.org members. Our webinar on November 12th, 14+ Specific Things You Can Do To Make More Money Next Week (and Improve Your Holiday Sales) is based on the [...]

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Oct29

Preview Forrester projections for European online retailing

By Wijnand Jongen | Published: October 29, 2008
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This morning at the second day of the Global eCommerce Summit in Amsterdam, Victoria Bracelet-Lewis, presented a preview of Forrester figures for the European online industry to be published sometime next week. Despite economic woes, online shopping remains in a strong growth mode. Germany and UK still account for 60% of Europe’s online shopping. In [...]

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Oct29

5 Trends for European online retail

By Wijnand Jongen | Published: October 29, 2008
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Over 300 people, from 24 countries are participating in the first Global eCommerce Summit in Amsterdam! About half of the audience are (online) retailers, providing a wonderful balance between retailers and suppliers. This morning I presented 5 European key trends of online retail at the beginning of the second day of the Summit.   Europe: [...]

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Oct28

Bringing online and offline retailers together: the C&A and Wehkamp case

By Wijnand Jongen | Published: October 28, 2008
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In 2007, C&A and Wehkamp started working together in an unique alliance between the online Dutch department store and fashion chain. C&A recognized the future growth opportunities of multi-channel retailing and rather then investing capital and resources they preferred to partner with one of the largest Dutch online retailers. Paul Nijhof, CEO of Wehkamp presented [...]

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Oct28

Global Summit Update

By Wijnand Jongen | Published: October 28, 2008
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This morning Dieter Junghans, president of EMOTA opened the first Global eCommerce Summit in Amsterdam. In his opening speech he pointed out to the growth of the European market, reaching 110 billion euro’s in 2007.   Scott Silverman, executive director of co-organiser Shop.org and chairman of the first day, also showed staggering figures and predictions [...]

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