According to the online store Ozone, in 2003, its turnover has increased in comparison with 2002 by 62% and reached 6.21 million. Its customers this shopping site posted for the year 248 thousand parcels, which total was 961 thousand units sold. Among other things, there is clearly a trend to design clients' complex orders. Overall, as of January 1, the number of registered buyers, "Ozone" is estimated at 600 thousand. With regard to range of shops, it is during 2003 increased by approximately 10%. It should be noted that in the first month of the year, despite the traditional for this period, the decline in the trade sector, the dynamics of growth in the number of orders for "Ozone" remained positive: in November-December 2003, the online store daily by the order of 1200-1300 orders , in January 2004 - 1500-1600.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Investors are interested in a collective shopping
Russian business incubator Fast Lane Ventures announced the launch of the project Beaucoup.ru. The new service focuses on a collective shopping products beauty industry: registered users can enjoy discounts at fitness centers, beauty salons, SPA-centers, and clinics of aesthetic medicine and other organizations in the industry. In the first stage service works only with the Moscow company, in what is scheduled for release in Russian regions. The project is a collective shopping Beaucoup.ru backed company Direct Group, Mangrove Capital Partners and Global Buying Group. "We intend to prove that this business model will be successful in Russia," - says Tatiana Tsvetkova, development director of Fast Lane Ventures. Perhaps 2010 will be the year of the collective shopping: in the past few months in RuNet appeared more than 5 projects in varying degrees, similar to Western replicate services. Unfortunately, most of these startups did not disclose its investors.
Bolero.ru 003.ru and sold again
Company X5 Retail Group, has spent millions of dollars to buy these e-commerce projects, refuses to online trading. Retailer, the leading market retailers by sales of the Russian Federation, said the sale of its stake in the company "IT Business" (the operator of online stores Bolero.ru and 003.ru). Proportion of X5 was 82%. Retail chain X5 Retail Group manages networks off-line stores Pyaterochka, "Crossroads," "Carousel." Net revenue for the retailer I quarter of 2011 exceeded $ 3 million 800 thousand total volume of online sales of X5 Retail Group for the year 2010, according to statements retailer was about $ 20 million share of online sales retailer, so tiny - about 0, 15%. Another possible reason for the refusal of the development of "IT business - the retailer's desire to focus on core product segments (X5 works with food, while online stores and Bolero.ru 003.ru implement, respectively, books and consumer electronics).
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
"Coupon" project of the United States would receive money from the Russian
Russian Foundation for Digital Sky Technologies will invest in start-up project Groupon, established in November 2008. Total volume of investments that Groupon receive from DST and the American Stock Battery Ventures, will be $ 135 million According to Clickz, funds raised will support global expansion Groupon (service providing companies the ability to sell services at a discount, in 50 U.S. cities and Canada, daily for each municipality launched the new shares). To attract consumers use ads on search and social networks Facebook, and affiliate programs. Audience of the project was not disclosed - at the same time, representatives Groupon say that for all time the work was completed more than 4 million coupons for a discount. In the current year turnover Groupon reach $ 350 million, reports TechCrunch. The project cost is estimated at $ 1.35 billion Russian counterparts Groupon (a system of collective buying Biglion, as well as project Darberry, which Oborot.ru told recently) no one has yet assessed.
In RuNet have another analogue Groupon
KupiKupon, another project for a collective shopping, sells a variety of services - such as going to the movies or a restaurant - for 50-90% of their nominal value. The basis of the service based on the idea of ??western projects that do not work one year and have already gained popularity among users. But in RuNet such projects already. Sites collective purchases collect certain, previously agreed upon with the partner number of consumers who are ready to order certain services at the partner institution in a strictly limited time span. Thus, the project partner receives an influx of new customers and the projected volume of orders, and users - favorable conditions of service. The American draft collective shopping Groupon.com, created 1.5 years ago, has attracted the attention of Russian-speaking Internet users after the announced receipt of $ 135 million from a group of investors, among whom was a Russian fund Digital Sky Technologies. Among the Russian analogues Groupon include projects such collective shopping as Darberry and Biglion.ru. On investments in the current Russian projects of collective shopping, nothing is yet known. Despite the presence of competitors, an international holding company Veritas Financial Europe, launched a project KupiKupon, intends to make its service number 1 in the market of collective purchases in Russia and CIS countries by early 2011.
UK e-shop will open "online fitting room"
Leading UK retailer, Hawes & Curtis, collaborating with the project Fits.me, finalist X Rally startups PayPal. Fits.me - a new version of the online fitting room for online clothing stores that have proved effective in preliminary testing. Development Fits.me, virtual "fitting" (Virtual Fitting Room) for online merchants, solves one of the main problems of online retailing clothing - the inability to "try on" product line, "try" it before you buy. The technology of virtual "dressing" was developed by the University of Tartu, Polytechnic University of Tallinn and the German company Human Solutions GmbH. Funding for development Fits.me - venture capital investments and research grants of the European Union. According Neykki Heldr, director and co-founder of a startup Fits.me, as a result of preliminary testing revealed that the virtual "fitting room" at 28% reduces the amount of refunds ordered clothes and three times increase online sales. Network Hawes & Curtis - a leading UK retailer in the trade business and branded shirts for men and women, also produces accessories and evening wear. Cooperating with Fits.me, British network becomes the first retailer in the country to offer consumers the opportunity to a virtual "try on" clothes before buying from an online store.