Cross-Border Sales

Cross-border e-commerce players from across the world to meet in Barcelona on Oct. 29-30

February 12, 2016

An exclusive, 2-day e-commerce conference, Club Ecommerce’s Cross Border Summit 1to1 brings together industry practitioners from across the world each year in Barcelona. Online retailers, solution providers, other market players and experts will exchange best practices and knowledge and talk with potential partners from dozens of countries. If you are a solution provider, you will meet and network with major international online retailers! (apply here) …

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Facing China slowdown, Alibaba and JD find solace in Russia

February 12, 2016

Russia’s plunging currency hasn’t weaned consumers off foreign goods. Instead, cash-strapped shoppers are turning to online retailers for imported smartphones, jewelry and clothes, giving an unexpected boost to Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and JD.com Inc. Alibaba’s AliExpress site posted a 40 percent increase in Russian visitors to 22 million in July compared with a year earlier, according to …

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Yandex opens commercial office in Shanghai

February 13, 2016

As a growing number of Chinese e-commerce companies are entering the Russian market, or considering to do so, Russian search giant Yandex has opened an office in Shanghai. Last week a company representative indicated that Yandex is renting office in a business center with several people, “but the staff will be expanded progressively as the number …

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AliExpress temporarily excludes Crimea from list of shipping destinations

February 14, 2016

Chinese online retail giant AliExpress left the disputed territory of Crimea off its updated online order form, frustrating residents of the Black Sea peninsula, the local Crimean news agency Krym Media reported Friday. Initial reports of the order form change suggested that AliExpress, part of China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group, was complying with Western …

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Three new Chinese platforms launched in two weeks: The invasion of Russian e-commerce continues

September 24, 2015

Illustrating the growing appeal of the Russian market, three significant Chinese e-commerce platforms have been launched in Russia for the past two weeks. In late August, as reported by business daily Kommersant, DHgate announced a partnership with two key Russian service providers, payment service provider QIWI and shipment company SPSR Express, to develop its activities in Russia. SPSR Express …

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China wins online sales in Russia

February 14, 2016

Chinese online vendors have won the lion’s share of Russia’s cross-border e-commerce business over competitors from Europe and the U.S., spurred on by the ruble’s continued decline and a recession that has prompted Russians to shop for less expensive items. Chinese firms took 65 percent of Russian online orders from abroad in 2014, according to a report by the East-West Digital News. “In 2014, Russians placed about 50 …

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China’s Alibaba and Russia’s Gazprombank ink deal to stimulate B2B cross-border exchanges

February 14, 2016

Just a few months after opening a Russian subsidiary, and while its subsidiary AliExpress has become Russia’s number one B2C platform, Alibaba is making a new step to assert its leadership in the Russian e-commerce scene. The Chinese e-commerce giant has just inked a memorandum of cooperation with Gazprombank, the subsidiary of the Russian gas monopoly, …

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China meets Russia in major Moscow e-commerce event

February 15, 2016

With e-commerce flowing from China to Russia continuing to grow quickly, market players, service providers, government officials and top experts from both countries will be gathering on October 5-6 at the China-Russia E-Commerce Summit. Not only will the current market trends be analyzed thoroughly and the most recent figures revealed, but the speakers will also …

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JD.com inks deal with Russian Post, considers selling Russian goods to Chinese consumers

February 16, 2016

A few weeks after the launch of a Russian version of its platform, JD.com has unveiled important aspects of its Russia strategy. In terms of delivery, the Chinese e-commerce giant announced in late July a partnership with Russian Post, industry blog Oborot.ru reported. The postal operator will ship the packages sent by JD from within Russia, …

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JD.com launches Russian site as first step to global expansion

June 29, 2015

Last week JD.com, China’s largest online retailer, launched a Russian version of its platform with the stated goal of conquering a 20% share of the Russian e-commerce market. JD.com’s English version had already been accessible to Russian customers for two years, but with no marketing effort or adapted logistics to serve them. Just a fraction of …

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Booking.com confirms commitment to “important Russian market,” gets prepared to comply with personal data storage law

February 15, 2017

Earlier this month, Booking.com announced that it will comply with Russia’s new law on personal data storage. The global online travel operator will soon transfer all data from the country’s users to a local data center, Russian business daily Kommersant reported. The announcement came after a meeting between Steffen Mueller, Booking.com’s senior manager of infrastructure and …

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Ozon plans grab at Chinese trade in Russia

February 18, 2016

Russian online retailer Ozon will begin hosting merchants from China and Europe this year to tap booming cross-border trade, its chief executive said. Ozon, part owned by the Sistema conglomerate, also plans to make major investments in new warehouses in Russia’s regions to accelerate sales growth, Danny Perekalsky said in an interview at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. “We are developing cross-border [trade] and want …

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