Flash Report | January 15, 2016 Register for Free Access ASOS Sales in the US and Europe Lead GrowthASOS reported that total group revenue for the four months ending Dec. 31, 2015, was up 23% in reporting-currency terms and 27% on a constant-exchange-rate basis. Read More
Flash Report | October 15, 2015 Register for Free Access Alibaba Launches Singles’ Day Global Shopping FestivalOn October 13, Alibaba Group launched its 2015 11.11 Global Shopping Festival in its Hangzhou headquarters in China. Read More
Insight Report | September 25, 2015 Premium Aug. 2015 US E-Com/M-com Sales BriefingIn August, US online retail spending from desktops rose by 7.2% year over year to $18.5 billion, according to comScore’s e commerce brief (which excludes auction sites, event tickets and travel).* Read More
Insight Report | July 20, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #4: Moment of the truth… recap“Thank you to the hundreds of thousands of new members who signed up on Prime Day, and our tens of millions of existing members for making our first ever Prime Day a huge success,” said Greg Greeley, Vice President of Amazon Prime, at the conclusion of Amazon’s inaugural Prime Day 24-hour super sale. Read More
Insight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #3: AS THE DAY comes to the end…FBIC’s global team has been tracking Amazon Prime Day and its “lighting deals” around the clock today. Since midnight PDT, FBIC team members in Hong Kong, the UK and the US have been following Amazon’s global sites, social media outlets and media responses. Read More
Insight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #2: AS THE DAY GOES ON…FBIC Global Retail & Technology is tracking Amazon Prime Day live. The sales event is a global shopping day exclusively for Amazon Prime members who have been promised new deals every 10 minutes through the day on July 15. Read More
Insight Report | July 15, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day Report #1: Launch UpdateThere was certainly a lot of hype surrounding the launch of Amazon’s Prime Day, the big online sales day that the company announced on July 6 and which we previewed in our “Amazon Prime Day” report on July 14. Read More
Insight Report | July 14, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Day PreviewLast week, Amazon announced that it is designating July 15 as Prime Day, set merely 6 days before its potential strong competitor jet.com’s July 21 launch date. Amazon Prime Day will be a global shopping event exclusively for Amazon Prime members who will be able to shop new deals offered every 10 minutes. Read More
Flash Report | July 14, 2015 Register for Free Access Alibaba Announces Investment in Mei.com to Expand its Presence in LuxuryIn one day, Alibaba announced two investments, totaling at least US$300 million, that enable the company to accomplish two separate but significant goals: to move up the value chain to integrate luxury products and flash sales into its Tmall.com site and to continue its geographic expansion by increasing its investment in SingPost, the leading mail-delivery company in Singapore. Read More
Flash Report | July 13, 2015 Register for Free Access Alibaba Announces Investment, Agreements with SingPost to Expand its Presence in LogisticsIn one day, Alibaba announced two investments, totaling at least US$300 million, that enable the company to accomplish two separate but significant goals: to move up the value chain to integrate luxury products and flash sales into its Tmall.com site and to continue its geographic expansion by increasing its investment in SingPost, the leading mail-delivery company in Singapore. Read More
Flash Report | July 7, 2015 Register for Free Access Amazon Prime DayTo celebrate its 20th anniversary, Amazon announced that it’s designating July 15 as Prime Day, an exclusive, global shopping event for Amazon Prime members. Prime members in the US, UK, Spain, Japan, Italy, Germany, France, Canada and Austria will be able to shop new deals, offered every 10 minutes, across a dozen categories, starting at midnight on July 15. Read More
Insight Report | July 1, 2015 Premium Amazon Prime Now Is Here Now!Amazon UK has brought its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, to London. Over in the States, shoppers in 14 metropolitan areas are already able to get their hands on Amazon purchases within an hour. We have tried this service and were very impressed! Now, Londoners too can get their goods delivered within 60 minutes of placing an order on the dedicated Prime Now app. The service is offered across 57 central London postcode areas, from Bow in the East End to Park Lane in the West. Read More
