Sheds could become wanted warehouses for internet retailers
Warehouses located on the edge of European cities could soon be worth a lot of money. That’s because customers nowadays expect from retailers to deliver the goods to them within a day or so. Therefore...
View ArticleDeutsche Post starts experiment with drop-off boxes
Deutsche Post is starting an experiment with boxes installed at people’s homes. This way the German mail service could drop the parcels in the secured boxes when a customer isn’t home. It’s all part of...
View ArticleEmployees Amazon Germany went on strike again
Staff members of Amazon Germany staged a daylong strike yesterday, demanding better payments and benefits. Trade Union Verdi called on workers at Amazon’s logistics center in Leipzig to stop working...
View ArticleOtto opens its network to third-party sellers
Otto Group will invest 50 million euros in its order fulfillment and parcel delivery infrastructure in Russia. The German company will also open its network to third-party retailers. With the...
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DHL tries out crowdsourced delivery in Sweden
DHL is experimenting with a package delivery system in Stockholm, based on crowdsourcing. Via an app called MyWays ordinary people are used to deliver packages to (other) end consumers. Through DHL...
View ArticleWehkamp.nl to reduce returns by measuring clothes
Wehkamp.nl wants to reduce the amount of returns of fashion items, its top-selling category. The biggest online clothing store of the Netherlands has to deal with return rates around fifty percent. It...
View ArticleEuropean supermarkets set sights on online groceries
Nowadays it is commonplace to buy books, music, clothes or electronics online. Buying groceries online isn’t. But that’s about to change in Europe as several supermarkets are starting to embrace...
View ArticleZalando’s logistics centre will be Europe’s biggest
Zalando is expanding its logistics centre in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Its facility is already 78,000 square meters large, but now 56,000 sqm of expansion space will be developed alongside the current...
View ArticleVolvo’s Roam Delivery service turns car into dropbox
Volvo has showed off its Roam Delivery service, which turns cars into grocery dropboxes. The Swedish manufacturing company calls this groundbreaking and claims it’s the world’s first delivery service...
View ArticleHermes Group passes €2bn revenue mark
Hermes Group has recorded sales of 2.08 billion euros. Its twelve individual companies grew their combined sales by 8% year-on-year in 2013. Parcel volumes grew by 10%, which led to the Anglo-German...
View ArticleAmazon expands it distribution center in Italy
Amazon has expanded its distribution centre in Italy. In Castel San Giovanni, placed in the province of Piacenza, one of Europe’s most innovative distribution centers arises. It’s 70,000 square meters...
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Half of UK retailers allows items to be returned to a store
There’s still a massive lack of multichannel integration in the United Kingdom, as 50% of retailers with stores, still don’t allow unwanted goods bought online to be returned to a store. This number...
View ArticleEU consumers want free delivery, but retailers focus on timely delivery
In some European countries there may be some differences between what consumers want and what online retailers think is most important. It seems some consumers want convenience and low shipping costs,...
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Belgian parcel delivery service Kiala now also ships cross-border
Kiala, which sends parcels to over 11,700 convenient collection points throughout Western Europe, has enabled merchants to get their goods delivered to other countries where Kiala is active. From now...
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German ecommerce industry to benefit from even faster deliveries
With 25 percent of European ecommerce turnover, Germany has the largest ecommerce industry in Europe. And the €40 billion market is set to hit 100 billion euros in 2020. This predicted growth of course...
View ArticlePolish Post launches new ecommerce platform
Poczta Polska, called Polish Post in English, is launching a new solution for ecommerce shipping, combining shipping with banking, insurance and digital services. The state-owned firm handled about one...
View ArticleDHL invests €195m in the UK
DHL will invest 195 million euros (£156 million) in the United Kingdom. It invests heavily in the East Midlands and Heathrow, by improving the sorting and aircraft landing facilities at these sites. It...
View ArticleAmazon now charges a one-cent delivery fee for books in France
No, Amazon didn’t make a typographical error at its site. The American retailer is really charging its French customers for shipping at the rate of one euro cent. And it has everything to do with the...
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RePack: reusable packaging for online retailers
The average Finnish consumer produces about 176 pounds of waste per year. We don’t even want to know what the average packaging waste is in other European countries. But a Finnish startup came up with...
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5 reasons to start your ecommerce business in The Netherlands
The Netherlands is not only famous because of its wooden shoes, tulips, Anne Frank House and Louis van Gaal, it’s also known for its high internet penetration and consumers who love to shop. We give...
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