Ecommerce in France
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COUNTRY
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FRANCE
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Population | 65.1 million people |
– % internet users | 68% |
Online sales | €115.2 billion (expected for 2020) |
Online stores worth mentioning: | 3 Suisses, Cdiscount, Vente-privee.com |
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- Ecommerce events in France
- Ecommerce customers in France
- The ecommerce market in France
- Big online stores in France
- Latest ecommerce news from or about France
Ecommerce events in France
Every year there are several ecommerce events being organized in France. We have a handy ecommerce events calendar, where you can find all the major online retail events in Europe. But you can also check out only the ecommerce events in France.
Ecommerce customers in France
PAYMENT METHODS – When ordering goods online, online consumers in France like to pay with their bank card, analysis from RetailX in 2020 shows. The bank card is, by far, the most popular payment in France, with 80 percent. It’s followed by online banking (11 percent), consumer credit (4 percent), bank transfer (1 percent) and other methods (a total of 4 percent).
ONLINE SHOPPERS – The same report from RetailX in 2020 showed that 77 percent of shoppers in France bought online the year before. That percentage was expected to grow with 2 percentage points in 2020, but the study also showed that online shoppers in France were spending more. In 2015, the average consumer spent 1,516 euros online, while it was already 2,266 euros in 2019.
PRODUCT CATEGORIES – Fashion is the product category with the highest share of people buying these items online. In 2019, it seemed that 58 percent of internet users bought fashion online. Cultural goods (50 percent) and travel/tourism (40 percent) were other categories with a high popularity online. Categories such as home services (7 percent) and glasses and contact lenses (also 7 percent) are significantly less popular online
The ecommerce market in France
France is one of the biggest ecommerce countries in the world. It’s ranked as the sixth biggest ecommerce market worldwide and in Europe only Germany and the United Kingdom are bigger. The Western European country has an online retail market that’s expected to reach over 115 billion euros by the end of 2020. According to data from the Centre for Retail Search online sales in France account for 6% of total retail sales. And ecommerce accounted for 4.27 percent of the country’s GDP in 2019.
Big online stores in France
Expectations are that there are more than 120,000 active ecommerce sites in France. The most visited online store in this country is Amazon, with more than 15 million unique visitors per month. Other big online players are Cdiscount, eBay, Fnac and Priceminister. Whereas fashion is a popular product category, retailers La Redoute and 3 Suisses are amongst the biggest fashion players in French ecommerce.
These are the top 10 of biggest online retailers in France in 2018: Amazon (€2.19 billion), Cdiscount (€2.08 billion), Vente-Privee (€1.89 billion), Auchan (€1.32 billion), Apple (€820 million), Fnac (€675 million), Showroomprivé (€588 million), La Redoute (€533 million), Carrefour (€494 million) and Zalando (€472 million).
Latest news about France
Cdiscount launches marketplace solution for other retailers
Cdiscount has announced it will launch an online marketplace solution that can be used by other retailers. The complete solution, which takes care of technology, offer, and logistics, enables physical and online retailers to develop their own marketplace operations.
Platform Group expands to France
The Platform Group, which has been selling fashion and shoes online in Germany for years through its brands Schuhe24 and Outfits24, is expanding to France. It launched shopping portal EnVogue, which is aimed at online fashion shoppers from France.
Cdiscount launches Cdiscount Occasion
Cdiscount has launched Cdiscount Occasion, a platform full of second-hand products. Cdiscount Occasion features items from all product categories: from high-tech and DIY to books and toys.
Wholesale marketplace Ankorstore raises €25 million
Ankorstore, a wholesale marketplace from France, has raised 29.9 million dollars (25 million euros) in a Series A round. Index Ventures led the round, while existing investors GFC, Alven and Aglaé participated.
Fulfilment solution Bigblue raises €3 million
Bigblue, a logistics provider from France, has raised 3.6 million dollars (3 million euros) in a seed round. The startup wants to build an end-to-end fulfilment solution in Europe. Bigblue isn’t a fulfilment company itself, but it works with several ones to handle post-order processes for online stores.
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Last update: May 2020