The Universal Postal Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates postal policies and sets the rules for international mail exchanges among member nations, in its plenary...
The North American B2C e-commerce market’s turnover continued to grow by double digits in 2014. However, at a turnover growth of 12.2%, North America was still the slowest growing region in the...
Bringing your e-commerce business cross-border requires certain circumstances that enable viable international trade. At the Round Table in Milan e-commerce professionals discussed the aspects...
The Ecommerce Europe Board of Directors has recently met in Brussels to discuss the upcoming policy challenges and projects on the agenda of the European e-commerce association. The Directors of...
The Northern European B2C e-commerce sales growth rate was 13.5% in 2014, which represents an increase compared to the 10.9% of the preceding year. As a result, online sales in Northern Europe...
An efficient and well-functioning payment landscape that creates a cross-border level playing field is key to a flourishing ecommerce industry in Europe. The e-payments sector is subjected to rapid...
According to the latest Netcomm Suisse and ContactLab Observatory: there are 4.5 million online shoppers in Switzerland, equating to 90% of internet users, and Swiss internet shoppers spend almost 2,...
Retail Excellence Ireland , the Irish national association of Ecommerce Europe, hosted the last Ecommerce Europe Round Table in Dublin on 17 September, bringing together leading retailers selling...
Thuiswinkel.org, the Dutch association of 2,200 physical and online shops in the Netherlands and member of Ecommerce Europe, launched the cross-sector action program e-Academy this week. The e-sector...
Ecommerce Europe organized for the first time a meeting with its business partners with the aim of actively exchanging views on how to foster cross-border e-commerce in Europe and therefore unlock...
This week members of the European Parliament discussed the legal implications of the Digital Single Market strategy of the European Commission. Overall, the members welcome the strategy as a first...
Ecommerce Europe had been invited by the European Commission to participate and give a presentation at the VAT Fiscalis Seminar on Modernizing VAT for cross-border e-commerce, which took place on 7-9...
Global B2C e-commerce of goods and services continued to grow significantly last year. The actual growth rate amounted to 24.0% in 2014, which was in line with preceding years. As a result, B2C e-...
Ecommerce Europe launched the survey “Barriers to Growth” amongst its European-wide membership base in Q1 2015. With the survey and its other projects, Ecommerce Europe provides European...
The e-commerce sector drives great innovation in the online payments sector. Consumers want to be able to pay wherever and whenever, and they want to pay easily and at a fair cost. These new consumer...
During the Ecommerce Europe Annual Conference of 8 June, representatives from the policy, the consumer and the industry side came together to discuss how smart harmonization at the European level can...
Ecommerce Europe launched the first Worldwide E-commerce Roundtable on Sunday 7 June in Barcelona, bringing together some of the biggest representatives of the e-commerce sector in the United States...
The European parcel delivery market is far from integrated, and service providers, online merchants, and regulators will need to work together to deliver better service to the European consumer...
BUSINESSEUROPE key messages: Digital is crucial to ensure Europe‟s competitive advantage in the global economy and deliver growth and jobs. Technology will offer EU businesses new opportunities...
Retail and wholesale are at the heart of the European economy, with 5.5 million enterprises providing jobs to 29 million Europeans. The digital economy creates major new opportunities for increasing...