Europe

Global Summit Update

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 for [...]

Gap.com CEO Discusses International Strategy, Free Shipping, and Trading Down in Candid Q&A

At the end of his session, which Linda Bustos already covered very well, Gap.com CEO Toby Lenk had about 20 minutes left in his time slot and opened the floor up for questions. People were almost jumping out of their seats to get to the microphones first. Here were some of the most interesting components of [...]

Round Tables Now Online and Doctors Still Available

Hi everyone
Our roundtables consistently rank as one of the most valuable content areas for our Shop.org conference attendees.  At this year’s Annual Summit, we will be having our roundtables occur immediately after a breakout sessions has concluded and in the same room as the breakout session.  The information for the roundtables are now online, so please feel [...]

Why Europe is the biggest opportunity in the next couple of years for the american e-tailers

The US e-commerce market has achieved enormous growth in a few years, reaching $165.9 billion in 2007, 21.8% more than in 2006.
 While the e-commerce market have great opportunities ahead, considering for instance the continuous increase of gas prices, the cut in direct marketing costs, or the added flexibility in the commercial policy, we have [...]