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Dutch shoppers expect to buy more online in the next few years, in particular health, beauty and food products. For the first time, over half of consumers say they will buy more on their smartphone in 5 years. That is what an annual research by Dutch industry advocate Thuiswinkel.org says.…

Ecommerce giant Amazon is launching its first ‘micromobility’ hub in London. The launch consists of a fleet of e-cargo bikes and on-foot delivery staff. The hub will carry out around 5 million deliveries a year. Active in low emission zones Online marketplace Amazon is launching this hub in an effort…

Finnish ecommerce startup Starcart has raised 1,4 million euros. With the capital, the company wants to strengthen operations in Finland. Additionally, the comparison service wants to expand across Europe. Starcart is a startup from Finland. On the ecommerce platform, shoppers can compare prices and shop at different retailers. The company…

Amazon will open a fulfilment centre in the Netherlands in the forseeable future. Third-party sellers currently have to store their products in Germany. Moreover, the Dutch Amazon wants to attract three times as many merchants. That is what Benelux country manager Roeland Donker said during his presentation at the Webwinkel…

At least four out of five Dutch elderly people regularly shop online. For most of them, convenience is the main reason to place online orders. However, the elderly often encounter obstacles. By making online stores more accessible, these obstacles are reduced. According to previous research in 2018, only 45 percent…

JohnBeerens.com, the online beauty retailer from the Netherlands, is launching in France and Germany. The company is also working on its own product label and customer loyalty program. JohnBeerens.com is an online store selling hair and beauty products, founded by Dutch hair stylist John Beerens. In 2020, the retailer was…

Ecommerce turnover in Europe continued to grow in 2021. On the other hand, the number of online shoppers has dipped slightly last year. After a peak in ecommerce in 2020, growth is slowing down and stabilizing. These are the results of the 2022 European E-commerce Report by industry advocates EuroCommerce…

Vinted, the secondhand fashion marketplace, is launching its own logistics company: Vinted Go. The service will have its own parcel lockers in and around Paris. Additionally, its online shipping platform can be used by other companies. Vinted is an online platform where users can buy and sell secondhand fashion. The…

Wehkamp, the Dutch online department store, made 782,7 million euros in turnover in 2021. That is 7 percent more than the year before. The retailer maintained its revenue, even though online shopping is returning to pre-pandemic levels. Wehkamp released its financial results for 2021-2022. The company is one of the…

British online supermarket Ocado has raised 670 million euros (578 million pounds). With the money, the company wants to expand further in order to become the top provider for automated grocery fulfilment. The news broke on Bloomberg. Ocado is an online-only supermarket known for its automated robotic warehouses, which it…

Over 40 percent of online stores close customer care after 5 pm, according to surveys in Germany and the Netherlands. Almost half of German shops are not reachable at night. However, the evenings are a peak time for online shoppers. These are the results of recent surveys by Salesupply. In…

Dutch online specialty coffee seller Wakuli has secured funding from investors. The size of the investment was not disclosed. Wakuli will use the capital injection for product innovation and expansion in Germany and Belgium. No middle men Wakuli sells high-quality coffee beans, also known as specialty coffee. The online seller…

Working between 20:00 and midnight will no longer be prohibited in Belgium. After months of negotiating about night work, the government has reached an agreement. It seems that Belgian ecommerce can finally start catching up. Belgium is behind In February, the government had already announced that it was considering labor…

Ecommerce giant Amazon is launching in Belgium, with Amazon Belgium. The marketplace is said to launch in September. Earlier this year, the company announced plans of opening a logistics center in the country. Amazon Belgium Today, leaked documents show that Amazon has plans to expand into 5 new countries all…

Lemonero, an ecommerce lending startup from Czech Republic, has raised over 10 million euros in seed capital. With the funds, the company wants to expand into several European countries. Lemonero currently works with hundreds of online stores in Eastern Europe. Lemonero, founded in 2019, provides funds to small and medium…

Ecommerce fulfillment company Huboo is planning to launch in Germany. The expansion follows a launch in the Netherlands last year. The company was founded in the UK and is also active in Spain. Active in Europe Huboo was founded in 2017 in Bristol, in the United Kingdom. It currently has…

Startup JUST, which enables a one-click checkout for online stores, raised 3 million euros in seed capital. The solution can increase conversion by nearly 20 percent, according to the company. The one-click checkout landscape is highly competitive. JUST was founded in 2021 in Paris. The business eliminates checkout steps such…

Berlin Brands Group, who became an unicorn last year, has to let go ten percent of it’s staff. In total the German aggregator will fire about a hundred employees. Where ecommerce has grown exponentially during the pandemic, the growth now is slowing down. Instead of aggresive growth, Berlin Brands Group…

Instant Commerce, a Dutch ecommerce software startup, has raised 2 million euros in seed capital. With the investment, the company wants to double its employees. Instant Commerce also wants to increase brand awareness in Europe. Instant Commerce was founded in January of this year. The software startup offers an intuitive…

Amazon Fashion Luxury Stores is launching in 5 countries in Europe. The ecommerce giant will offer 8 brands at launch, planning to add more in the future. But the competition for luxury fashion retail in Europe is fierce. The offer of luxury fashion brands first launched in the United States…

Kaartje2go was named ‘DHL Best Online Store 2022’ at the annual Dutch Shopping Awards. The shop, which sells personalized postcards, also took first place in the ‘Gifts’ category. Interior design e-tailer Naduvi was named the fastest growing Dutch ecommerce business. Last night, the 20th edition of the Shopping Awards took…

Clearco, an ecommerce investor from Canada, has launched in Germany. The firm pledges 500 million euros to German online businesses. Just three months ago, Clearco set foot in Ireland, where it recently had staff layoffs. Clearco, formerly known as Clearbank, is a Canada-based ecommerce investing firm. The company has funded…

Wonnda, a Berlin-based startup, has launched its online product sourcing platform. Sellers can now use the beta-version. The service offers over a thousand products from European manufacturers in 6 categories. Wonnda was founded in January 2022 in Germany. The startup wants to ‘bring products to market quickly and easily’, as…

British Frasers Group has bought Missguided, after the online fashion retailer collapsed into administration last Monday. The retail group has acquired Missguided for 23.5 million euros. The fashion retailer is planned to continue operating as a standalone business. Missguided was founded in 2009 in the UK and was a successful…

Trendyol, the ecommerce platform from Turkey, is launching in Germany. It marks the first market outside of Turkey as well as Trendyol’s entry into Europe. The platform also has plans to launch in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and London by next year. Trendyol is an online marketplace that also offers its…

Ecommerce aggregator RubiBrands has raised 21.35 million euros in a seed round. It is the first ecommerce aggregator to launch in Turkey. The company will use the capital injection to increase acquisitions. Istanbul-based RubiBrands acquires and scales up brands based in Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa with the…

Swedish fintech Klarna wants to raise 1 billion dollars (over 900 million euros) from investors. The company is the European market leader for ‘buy now, pay later’ services. However, it has been valued 30 percent lower and has since announced layoffs. Klarna is the ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) market…

Fashion platform About You has increased revenue to 1.7 billion euros in 2021. At the same time, losses have more than doubled compared to the year before. The company says this is because of growth investments. German fashion retailer About You, which falls under the wings of Otto Group, has…

Last-mile delivery scale-up Budbee has raised 40 million euros in an investment round. The company is now valued at 700 million euros. The capital injection will mainly be used to expand its network of parcel lockers. The Swedish last-mile delivery scale-up is active in several other European countries, such as…

The Fortia Group assists Amazon merchants looking to sell their ecommerce business. After one year of operations they have closed 7 takeovers, the highest being valued over 16 million euros. CEO Emmett Kilduff: “We are on track to complete 30 deals in 2022.” The Fortia Group wants to become ‘the…

On 8 and 9 June, popular ecommerce and logistics event DELIVER will take place in Amsterdam. One of the companies exhibiting there will be Direct Link, a logistics provider. “Nothing beats physical events like this one, as it provides opportunities to get in touch with customers directly”, says Ulrich Hinz,…

Ecommerce aggregator eBrands has raised 30 million dollars (29 million euros) in a new funding round. The Finnish company will use the funds for increased acquisition and international expansion. To date, eBrands has raised close to 50 million euros. eBrands acquires and scales up new, growing Nordic ecommerce brands before…

Leading ecommerce platform Shopify is shutting down its dropshipping extension, Oberlo. Sellers who want to use the app to fulfill their dropshipping business via AliExpress can no longer find it in the App Store. Shopify is transitioning to another dropshipping solution developed by DSers. For online sellers using ecommerce software…

Inditex, the major clothing retail group from Spain, is now charging a fixed fee for online returns. The owner of brands such as Zara, Pull & Bear and Bershka is implementing this change in 30 countries. It wants to motivate customers to return items in brick-and-mortar stores. The Spanish retail…

Octopia Fulfillment, a logistics service provider from France, has announced that it will open new warehouses in the coming months. The company will launch warehouses in the UK and Germany, as an addition to its warehouses that are currently active in France and Spain. The expansion will further solidify the…

Brenger, the Dutch scaleup for sustainable delivery, launches in West Germany. After a pilot in North Rhine-Westphalia last year, Brenger is now available for all western regions. The delivery network expects to execute 5000 transports in Germany in 2022. Brenger, which was founded in 2016, uses leftover space in delivery…

Over 90 percent of Polish B2B-companies plan to develop ecommerce channels. Around 40 percent of business providers already sell online. For one in four companies in Poland, ecommerce drives over 80 percent of revenue. These are some of the findings of a new report commissioned by E-commerce Poland. For the…

Spanish online furniture seller Hannun crafts wooden furniture from discarded wood. In order to grow further, the company has begun the process to join BME Growth. With the funds that this will raise, the company wants to acquire businesses that share its vision. The online furniture seller Hannun was established…

PayPal has launched its funding solution for SMEs, called PayPal Funding Pro, in two new European markets: France and the Netherlands. The solution gives SMEs quick and easy access to growth capital. Online sellers can find it in the PayPal Commerce Platform. Sellers with a PayPal business account in France…

Leading ecommerce software BigCommerce named Mollie, a payment service provider from the Netherlands, as Preferred Technology Partner. The Dutch fintech offers most of the popular payment methods in Europe. The news follows BigCommerce’s recent expansion to the Netherlands, France and Germany. Ecommerce software provider BigCommerce has over 60 thousand users…

Austrian fulfillment company Byrd has raised 53.07 million euros in a Series C funding round. The company will use the capital injection to offer next-day delivery within Europe. It is currently active in seven European markets and will expand into three more. Byrd was founded in 2016 in Austria. It…

Online furniture retailer from the UK, Made.com, has announced an acquisition of Trouva. This lifestyle marketplace sells products from over 700 independent boutiques and brands. Through the acquisition, Made.com wants to grow its marketplace business. Made.com is an online retailer that sells furniture ordered directly from designers. After its launch…

Since the war in Ukraine started, online fashion sales in Germany fell 9 percent. Online interior design purchases, which is known as a stable category, also slowed down. Overall, though, ecommerce sales grew 8 percent in the first quarter. These are some of the most important conclusions from new quarterly…

Royal Design Group, the Swedish interior design company, has acquired Danish design retailer AndLight. With the takeover, Royal Design enters the lighting segment. AndLight currently operates in no less than 17 markets across Europe. Royal Design is a large interior design retailer in the Nordics and Europe, generating 125 million…

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group wants to expand its marketplace Lazada into Europe. Lazada will focus on local merchants instead of cross-border sales like AliExpress. Only recently, Alibaba’s logistics company Cainiao set foot in Belgium. Sources that know of the expansion plans told Reuters. Lazada is an online marketplace where…

Dutch fulfillment company Active Ants has announced that it is opening its fifth distribution center in September. After two sites in the Netherlands and an expansion to Belgium and Germany, the company will now take on England. “Coming to Northampton will allow us to increase our presence. Ultimately, we want…

British startup Olsam, an ecommerce aggregator, has acquired US-based competitor MarketFleet. It’s the second time that the company acquires another aggregator, after its acquisition of Flywheel Commerce in November last year. The company hopes to consolidate the market with this move. Amazon seller acquisition companies entered European ecommerce in 2020.…

Popular German online pet supply store Zooplus has increased its total sales to 2.09 billion euros in 2021. This is a 16 percent growth when compared to a year before. The company lost market share to Fressnapf, but expects to increase sales to 2.3 billion euros in this year. After…

Veepee’s second-hand platform, Re-Cycle, collects used products of members of the platform to resell or recycle them. It was founded in France two years ago, but is now making its entry into Spain. This is the first international expansion of the platform. French online shop Veepee is a website that…

123inkt, a Dutch e-tailer of print cartridges and office supplies, is for sale. The company is said to be worth at least 500 million euros. Since its last annual numbers, the company has grown significantly, sources say. That is what sources that know of the sale told Dutch newspaper FD.…