Allegro, Poland's largest ecommerce company, is increasingly serving customers outside of its home market. Last quarter, 4.2 million shoppers bought from Allegro’s international marketplaces, which is 50 percent more than a year ago. The international GMV grew by 56 percent.
Only three years after launching a dedicated online store for Belgium, Amazon has grown into the country’s second-largest online retailer. The company is investing heavily in Belgium. Part of the investment is going toward same-day delivery from Amazon’s distribution center in Hoboken, near Antwerp.
Vinted is performing well in 2025: revenue grows by 40 percent to over 1 billion euros. The company’s gross merchandise volume (GMV) surpasses the mark of 10 billion euros, according to CEO Thomas Plantenga on LinkedIn. “A big year for Vinted.”
The Platform Group (TPG) has published a vision document towards 2030. The German company, which operates a variety of marketplaces on its own software, plans to expand into more product categories and attract tens of thousands of additional sales partners. Its profitability must increase.
Polish marketplace Allegro has announced a partnership with PKO Bank Polski. Together, they are launching two services: financing for businesses, and a payment method with cashback. The services will be launched before the end of this year.
Amazon has added a new shipping option for merchants in its five largest European markets. Sellers shipping from China can benefit from fast delivery at no additional cost, according to Amazon. The solution will later be available for domestic shipments as well.
Shein and Temu together sell around 3.3 billion euros worth of products in Germany, according to the German Retail Federation (HDE). One in five German consumers plans to make purchases from the Chinese platforms in the run-up to Christmas. “That is somewhat of a paradox”, says HDE director Stefan Genth.
Amazon may have to compensate German customers for the higher Prime subscription fees it unilaterally introduced three years ago. A regional consumer protection authority, which filed the lawsuit, wants Amazon to reverse the price increase and refund the difference to its customers.
Cainiao, the logistics subsidiary of Alibaba Group, will not move forward with its planned expansion at Liège Airport in Belgium. Two new warehouses that were on the drawing board will not be built, dealing a blow to Wallonia’s ambition to turn Liège into an ecommerce logistics hotspot.
Amazon will invest more than 1.4 billion euros in the Dutch market over the next three years. Earlier this month, the company also announced an injection of more than 1 billion euros in Belgium. The American company aims to win over shoppers and online buyers across the Benelux region in its battle with local market leader bol.
Amazon’s selling partners can no longer use a default handling time of two days. The company has automatically halved the timeframe, to the surprise of many sellers. From now on, they must manually set longer handling times in Seller Central, on a per-item basis.
In the financial year between 2024 and 2025, the European cross-border ecommerce market reached a turnover of 358.7 billion euros. And 247.5 billion euros, or 70 percent, of that was generated by online marketplaces.
TikTok has launched Shop Local in the United Kingdom, a support scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The competition promotes the sale of homegrown goods to British consumers, with packages to help local businesses set up and start selling on the platform.
Around 50 percent of online shoppers in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom have shopped at Temu or Shein this year. Compared to a year ago, the amount of shoppers using those platforms has not changed much. It seems that Temu’s and Shein’s growth in Europe has slowed down.
Zalando has taken new steps in Southern Europe. The German company has launched a dedicated website for Portugal. Additionally, Zalando has started selling beauty products in Spain, which have not yet been part of the offering in the neighboring country.