Awards

Cyberphoto, a Swedish online retailer where customers can buy photography equipment, has won an award for best online retailer of the year. It has won this prize for the third consecutive year. Mobile payments company iZettle was rewarded the company of the year award, while Media Markt became the retailer of the year.

The awards for best online stores in Germany have been handed out this week. The organization awarded the best retail websites from a consumer's perspective in seven different categories. For the fifth consecutive year, Thomann won the Deutscher Online-Handels-Award in the category 'sports & leisure'.

Dutch lingerie brand Hunkemöller is the winner of the Webshop Award Europe as well as of the Cross Channel Award Europe. It won these two awards during the election of the retailer of the year in Europe. The Retailer of the Year Awards were handed out in nine European countries and of all the winners a European winner was announced in three different categories.

eShopWorld, which offers modules for cross-border retailers, has been ranked number one in the local Deloitte Technology Fast 50. This list ranks the fastest growing technology companies in Ireland based on average percentage revenue growth over four years. eShopWorld achieved growth of more than 9,900 percent during this period.

Vente-privee.com is known for its online flash sales, but the France-founded retailer is making a name for itself as a company with an excellent customer service. It was awarded "best customer service of the year" in the United Kingdom for the second year in a row. Such awards it previously got in France and Spain as well.

The Retail Systems Awards were handed out last night in London and there are some happy ecommerce players now. House of Fraser was rewarded with awards for best mobile retailer and best retailer, while Shop Direct was announced as best online retailer of the year.

House of Fraser was the absolute winner of the Internet Retailing Awards, which were handed out last Thursday. The British department store group went home with three awards. It won the Innovation award, the Mobile award and the Judges' award. The 5-star luxury hotel Mandarin Oriental in London was where it all happened last week. According to the organization, ‘leading lights’ of the ecommerce and multichannel industries in the United Kingdom attended this event which was all about who would go home as a winner.

Swiss online couponing site DeinDeal.ch was rewarded as the Swiss ecommerce champion of 2015, during this year's Swiss E-Commerce Awards. But a great deal of the attention also went to Farmy.ch, who won the Newcomer and Startup award, as well as the main category Body & Soul.

Last night, the winners of the European E-Commerce Awards have been announced. During the Global E-commerce Summit that takes place in Barcelona, awards were handed out in the Entrepreneurial, Omnichannel and Pure Player categories. And we've got all the winners listed for you.

Online retailer Yoox just has been named global e-retailer of the year during the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition. The awards ceremony that took place in Chicago, honors online retailers from all over the world whit outstanding achievements across multiple categories.

The Global E-commerce Summit, that takes place on 9 and 10 June, will again be the place for the European E-commerce Awards. In three categories, online retailers from all over Europe can win a prestigious award. Now, in two of these categories, the nominees are already known and we have them for you.

Coolblue, the omnichannel retailer with 323 specialized web stores and 7 physical stores in the Netherlands and Belgium, has won a prestigious award for being the best online store in the Netherlands. This was revealed during the Nationale Thuiswinkel Awards, where winners were chosen in 15 different categories.

The online store of Yves Rocher has been rewarded with the Favor'i 2014, an award created by the French association of ecommerce and distance selling (Fevad). Yves Rocher got the price, based on internet votes. With 16,83 its website received the highest overall score, where the average score was 15,24.

Online toy store JátékNet has been rewarded with the title 'Best Shop of the Year' in Hungary. JátékNet won also a Quality Award in the category 'Games and Toys' and a Popularity Award in the same category. The Hungarian store won the Popularity Award three times in a row, in 2012, 2013 and now in 2014.

The World Retail Awards were handed out for the eight time and again Vente-Privee got rewarded with the title of Pure Player of the Year. It's the second time the French shopping community wins this international award. H&M became the International Retailer of the Year, while John Lewis was the Omnichannel Retailer of the Year.