Industry News

Trump’s game of postal chicken
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In October 2018 the White House announced it is leaving a 144-year-old global postal agreement due to the current trade war with China. ParcelHero’s Head of Consumer Research, David Jinks MILT considers: is this is a game where everyone loses?  “When...
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Social Shopping – What can Europe learn from the Asian business model (e.g. China’s WeChat)?
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What new business models are likely to arise? Steel yourselves, European online shoppers, ecommerce and m-commerce acolytes. Think you know all there is to know about buying stuff online, with your Amazon and your eBay apps and others littering your...
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Brexit – What is the likely impact on cross-border ecommerce for UK-based e-retailers?
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What strategies should they be considering right now? Our super, soaraway much-loved media might be clambering over each other to paint a thoroughly dystopian picture of the shattered commercial wastelands of life after March 30, 2019. B-Day. Brexit Day. Cue...
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The Millennial Consumer
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What characteristics do they have, where and what do they buy, and how? How to unlock the untapped future smartphone spending power of the millennial generation is one of the biggest challenges in the inexorable rise of mobile commerce. Today’s...
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China’s Consumers Love Luxury
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This first article on the Certis24 website ‘Industry News’ section focuses on the retail and eCommerce boom in China and how that is shaping the online world, as Chinese shoppers become more discerning and more global in their outlook and...
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