September was a very busy month when it comes to ecommerce events in September. Luckily there are still some nice and interesting events, conferences and exhibitions left for October. We made a handy overview for you, so you know when and where an ecommerce event in Europe takes place.

Deutsche Post DHL has reached an agreement to buy UK Mail for approximately 242.7 million pounds, or 281.6 million euros. With the acquisition, DHL will further strengthen its position in the European postal market, while putting more pressure on competitor Royal Mail in the United Kingdom.

Spring, a Dutch company that provides delivery solutions, has announced it now offers ecommerce businesses RFID tracking on goods that are sent internationally. This new solution, called Tag & Trace, gives online retailers who send low value goods around the world the possibility to track at minimal cost.

Payment service provider MultiSafepay will expand its payment methods with Electronic Payment Standard (EPS), an Austrian online transfer procedure, so it can focus more on the growth market in Austria. MultiSafepay sees potential for its customers and wants to offer them the opportunity to enter new markets.

Ecommerce in Europe is still growing. Last year, about 253 million Europeans bought products or services online with a total value of 189 billion euros. That's 9 billion euros more than the year before. About 176 million European consumers also shopped online from abroad, which is an increase of 17 million in a year.

The European Ecommerce and Omni-Channel Trade Association, better kwown as EMOTA, has welcomed a new member. The Croatoin ecommerce association eCommerce Hrvatska is the latest trade organization that has joined EMOTA.

Ecommerce analytics company MonkeyData has successfully secured its second round of seed funding and is now valuated at 8 million euros. The Czech company wants to use the investment for product development and a continuation in the company's global expansion. The next funding round (Series A) will be open to global investors.

Just like ecommerce is still evolving, the logistics industry will look entirely different in the next 5 to 15 years. Markus Kückelhaus from DHL is looking at innovations and trends every day and has great expectations of six different technologies, that he thinks will change the logistics industry by 2030.

Swiss supermarket chain Volg will further expand its online trade in 2017. The retailer already lets customers in selected villages order their groceries online and the concept has proven to be successful. Soon, more customers in Switzerland can order their goods on a larger scale.

DHL Parcel Europe has expanded its cross-border ecommerce network through a new partnership with Slovenia and Hungary. The parcel company is now working together with the Slovenian Pošta Slovenije and the Hungarian Magyar Posta to strengthen the cross-border ecommerce market and to expand it range of services.

Bol.com is, in terms of revenue, the biggest online retailer in the Netherlands. It generated an estimated revenue of 730 million euros in 2015, way more than local competitors such as Wehkamp and Coolblue. Together with Zalando and Amazon these companies form the top 5 of biggest ecommerce websites in the Netherlands.

Almost 1.6 million Dutch people already shopped for groceries online at least once and expectations are the 2 million milestone will be reached next year. This means that one in six Dutch will buy their groceries online in 2017. The total revenue of online supermarkets in the Netherlands is expected to increase by 30 percent.

Consumers in Russia are buying more online. During the first half of this year, the total amount of online payments grew by 12 percent, while the number of transactions increased by 27 percent, compared to the second half of 2015.

Dutch lingerie retail chain Lincherie has opened a physical store in Amsterdam where customers won't be able to take some bras or bikinis with them. They can however get in a fitting room with a digital mirror where they can discover the correct bra size. Ordering products happens via a tablet, after which the products will be sent to the customer within 48 hours.

Amazon, Otto and Zalando are the biggest online stores in Germany. Together, these ecommerce companies account for almost as much revenue as the numbers 4 to 100 in the ranking of biggest online stores in Germany.