Healthy lifestyles, “clean” ingredients, at-home gourmands, value consciousness and e-commerce speciality products are set to be key food and drink trends for 2015, according to market research organisation Mintel. It’s ...
Tags: Key Trends, Food, Drinks
The government says China's e-commerce transactions totaled 2.1 trillion US dollars in 2014. The spokesman of the commerce ministry says the number represents growth of 25 percent compared to 2013. China has the world's biggest online ...
Tags: e-commerce, online population
Online groceries in Australia set to grow, IBISWorld Online groceries sales in Australia are predicted to grow, reaching $2,194 million in 2015, up 14.6 per cent from $1,914.2 million in 2014, according to market research organisation ...
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Ecommerce, which created a buzz in the Indian retail market last year, is likely to further grow in 2015, given the growing number of Internet users in the country, which is already estimated to have touched 250 million. Although ...
Tags: retail market, e-retail space, Apparel
Flavoured drinking straw company Sipahh is set to launch its e-commerce store in mid-January 2015, which will allow consumers to buy bulk packs of its straws. Sipahh straws, which use the Unistraw Delivery System, were created by Peter ...
Tags: E-Commerce Store, Unistraw Delivery System, Agriculture
The total revenue of China's express delivery market hit 204 billion yuan (33 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014, up 42 percent, official data showed on Tuesday. Businesses made 14 billion deliveries last year, the most in the world and 52 ...
Holiday sales as compared to overall annual retail sales have been trending downward for about a decade. Holiday sales in 2013, at $663.5 billion, were 18.7 percent of overall retail sales, well below the peak of 19.6 percent seen in 2004. ...
Tags: Gifts, Shoppers, Sporting Goods
Concerns about labelling and a desire for convenience are trends that are set to continue into 2015, according to global market research organisation Innova Market Insights. Innova Market Insights has released its overview of the Top Ten ...
Tags: Food, Beverage, Agriculture
A survey by The Economist reveals that Asian women are increasingly empowered financially and they are the one’s driving the explosive growth of e-commerce in the region. The magazine did a detailed survey of 5,500 women across ...
Tags: Ecommerce Trade, Female consumers, Apparel
Fashion turned out to be the second top most category, next only to mobile and electronics, at the recently concluded three-day Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF 2014), organised by Internet giant Google. About 30-40 per cent of the ...
Australian supermarket group Coles’ customer rewards program flybuys has launched flybuys eShops, which enables customers to collect rewards through online shopping at big brands. Coles said flybuys eShops was “an online ...
Tags: Online Shopping, flybuys eShops, Agriculture
Footfall in November was 2.4% down on a year ago, down on the 0.8% fall in October and below the three-month average of a 1.4% decline, reports the latest BRC/Springboard Footfall Monitor, which covers the four weeks to 29th November 2014. ...
Tags: Footfall, free car parking, Furniture
The set – originally priced at $119 – has now sold out apart from on the online auction site, where its asking price has reached nearly seven times its RRP. Online touts continue to cash in on parents’ desperation for ...
Tags: Frozen Castle, Toys
Online sales of Non-Food products in the UK grew 12.0% in November versus a year earlier. In November 2013, online sales rose by 16.0% over the previous year. In November online sales represented 21.0% of total Non-Food sales of the ...
Tags: online retail, Furniture
Online and mobile payments worldwide are forecast to reach €3 trillion in the next five years, according to a report by Hamburg-based business intelligence organization yStats.com. Mobile payment is the growth leader, outpacing ...
Tags: outpacing online, Apparel