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Before Ecommerce News, Pleuni studied Psychology and obtained a Master’s degree in Gender Studies. After that, she started out as a freelance writer but soon noticed that she wanted to work with colleagues. Then she found Ecommerce News, where she has been working ever since. Nowadays, she mostly writes news and background articles. She also manages advertisements and edits content from other editors.
This week, the European Commission has approved the takeover of Ceconomy, the owner of MediaMarkt and Saturn. Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com is acquiring the company. The Commission has added conditions to the deal. For example, JD.com needs to provide warehousing and logistics services to third-party retailers.
German postal and logistics service DHL has announced several price changes. One of the changes is the introduction of a fee for second delivery attempts of parcels. Previously, second delivery attempts were part of the standard procedure. Now, senders will be charged 2.99 euros.
The Becom Awards were presented yesterday in Brussels. This year, the Diamond Awards went to Kentucky Horsewear and Woosh. There were 29 finalists in 10 categories.
Breuninger is accelerating its expansion in Europe. After earlier launches in the first half of the year, it is now expanding into eleven more markets. As a result, the company will now be active in 24 markets in total.
French ecommerce automation platform Lengow has acquired Daily&Co, a provider of multi-channel marketplace integration and distribution software solutions. The companies have not released any financial details about the deal. As a result of the acquisition, Lengow can offer catalogue management services.
German online pet supply store Zooplus has expanded its marketplace to Spain. The Spanish platform went live with 10,000 new products. It is the third market where Zooplus has expanded its marketplace model to.
In 2025, more than 16 percent of Austrian consumer spending in retail was generated online. A year earlier, the online share of consumer retail spending came to 14.9 percent. This brings the market volume of ecommerce in the country in 2025 to approximately 12.4 billion euros.
The European Parliament wants to reduce the administrative burden on SMEs in regards to waste legislation. It wants to exempt small companies from the obligation of appointing a representative for waste legislation compliance in each EU-member state where they sell products.
Polish online marketplace Allegro is opening up its platform to consumers in Ukraine. It is not launching a local marketplace in the country. Instead, products can be ordered and shipped through the Polish website.
The 100 biggest marketplaces that are active in Europe are expected to generate a gross merchandise volume (GMV) of 175.8 billion euros. And 79.5 percent of that is generated by cross-border sales. The cross-border market share is expected to increase.
German sales for Shein, Temu and AliExpress have dropped 35.5 percent in the third quarter, compared to that same period in 2025. The total sales came to 566 million euros. As a result, the market share has fallen to 3.1 percent. A quarter earlier, their share was still 5.3 percent.
Furniture retailer Ikea is expanding its pre-owned marketplace to three new markets. It is launching in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany. This brings the total active markets to nine. It is also starting a buyback service in Portugal and Spain.
Online sales in Sweden in the second quarter have increased 8 percent compared to the same period last year. All online sectors showed growth. It remains to be seen if this trend will continue the rest of the year.
Nine out of ten euros of online spending that left the European Union in 2025 went to Temu, Shein and AliExpress. In that year, 49.7 billion euros were spent on those platforms. In total, Europeans spent 55.1 billion euros abroad on physical goods. This comes down to 13.1 percent of the total online spending by consumers in EU-countries.
In the summer of 2026, up to 66.7 percent of retailers in Austria, Germany and Switzerland said that they have a maximum item-related return rate of 10 percent. The amount of retailers with return rates over 20 percent has decreased to 23.6 percent, a slight decrease from 25 percent in 2025.