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).