Cross-border

ITinSell, a French company that sells delivery tracking tools designed for online retailers, has launched in the United Kingdom. After opening offices in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Barcelona it now launched its operations in London.

Showroom, a Polish platform that gathers a selection of independent fashion brands, is going abroad. It has launched in Germany under the same name. Showroom doesn't hold any stock, but orders are shipped directly by the designers in branded boxes. All products are produced in the European Union, so customers buy true European fashion via Showroom.

Almost one in eight Polish internet users, and one in four online consumers, shop on foreign websites. And the people who do this, mostly shop cross-border for clothes and accessories. Also media like books, CDs and films and multimedia like apps and e-books are among the most popular products Poles buy on foreign websites.

Divante, an e-business agency that supports other companies in optimizing their online sales, will enter the Dutch market. It already built an ecommerce site for Dutch company Loods5.nl and is now working on a whole new website for a Dutch online retailer. We interviewed Tom Karwatka, CEO of Divante, and discovered how they think about Dutch ecommerce…

Blendle, the Dutch startup that has been revolutionizing reading news online, has finally announced the official launch date for the first international version of its digital news kiosk. Blendle Germany will launch on September 14. Most major Germany newspapers and magazines have joined the platform.

After opening several physical stores in the United Kingdom last year, American Eagle Outfitters is ready to launch its first localized ecommerce website in the UK. Within the next month the online store will open its doors for British consumers.

Dutch fashion retailer MS Mode is already active in six European countries, but wants to expand this number by launching an international store on Amazon and La Redoute. The expansion is planned for the end of this year. With this move, the fashion retailer expects to address a group of consumers that haven't shopped at MS Mode before.

Chiquelle is one of the fastest-growing online fashion retailers in Sweden, but its home country isn't the only market Chiquelle has its focus on. It has marketing and sales activities in more than 20 countries across the world. We interviewed the CEO and owner of this ambitious and quite rebellious online fashion retailer.

Claes Retail Group from Belgium will soon start selling its fashion products online in Germany as well as in China. With its clothing store JBC, the company is already active in Germany but now it's the first time it sells its products online to German customers.

The British electronica store Ao.com is building a new distribution center and offices for the European mainland. From there the retailer wants to expand in Germany and around. A launch in markets such as the Netherlands or Austria seems just a matter of time.

Made.com, a large furniture seller that is already active in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Belgium and The Netherlands got funding to accelerate its European growth. At first to 'agressively grow in those markets' in which it sees plenty of room to continue it's growth.

Online department store Fonq from the Netherlands has launched a website in Austria, making this the eighth country in Europe where Fonq sells its products. But Austria is only the fifth with a dedicated ecommerce site, after Fonq opened online stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany.

Mister Spex has launched its service in the Netherlands. It's just one of the many destinations the Berlin-based ecommerce company has planned throughout Europe. Aside from contact lenses, Mister Spex claims to offer the most comprehensive range of directly available designer glassed and sunglassed in Europe.

SkatePro has won two prestigious ecommerce awards in a very short time. The largest online skate shop from Scandinavia doesn't think this is a coincidence. According to Carsten Schmidt, partner at SkatePro, good customer experiences equals online success. An extraordinary focus on the customer is needed at the top.

Ozon, the popular online retailer from Russia, will begin hosting merchants from both Europe and China. The ecommerce company wants to dive deeper into the booming cross-border trade. If the first steps into this market happen to be a success, Ozon will expand and invest more.