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Trump’s game of postal chicken
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 the Universal Postal Union decided to ignore President Trump’s threats...
Continue ReadingSocial Shopping – What can Europe learn from the Asian business model (e.g. China’s WeChat)?
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 smartphone screens, plus a bit of Asos here and the...
Continue ReadingBrexit – What is the likely impact on cross-border ecommerce for UK-based e-retailers?
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 clap of thunder and flash of fork lightning. The day...
Continue ReadingThe Millennial Consumer
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 millennial consumers – that much-discussed, digital-first demographic and regular media...
Continue ReadingChina’s Consumers Love Luxury
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 spending Insights on China’s retail and eCommerce boom China is...
Continue ReadingPost-Expo Asia-Pacific Conference – Hong Kong 2014
This was a pivotal event for bpost International to address a gathering of key, senior influencers and decision makers in Asia explaining its operations and development strategies for the Asia-Pacific region. APAC had developed into a key region for the company with its presence in China, Hong Kong and Singapore....
Continue ReadingPost-Expo Latin America Conference & Exhibition – Brazil – 2013
bPost International’s presence at this event was targeted at offering a view of its cross-border development from a European base. The presentation centred on the company’s view of mixing organic growth with targeted acquisitions in key markets. http://www.slideshare.net/ChrisStevens18/20130417postexpo-latinamerica-innovation-and-expansion-at-bpostchris-stevensdraft-53732371
Continue ReadingInternet Retailing – Jump Start for Cross-border Business – London
Internet Retailing magazine arranged a one-day seminar designed to help eCommerce retailers and operators assess how best to enter the cross-border business. Belgian Post International was invited to make a presentation on its success in cross-border postal logistics, with particular emphasis on how we had developed our business model in...
Continue ReadingWorld Mail & Express Europe – 2011
Organized by Triangle Management Services this event allowed Swiss post International to present its vision for the distance selling and eCommerce industry. This sector allowed Swiss Post to explain how its global development strategy was being enacted across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
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