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Below you’ll find all the articles we’ve written about Finnish ecommerce, online retailers, acquisitions, cross-border initiatives and more. If you want to know more about the Finnish online retail industry, check out our information page on ecommerce…

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Groupon shuts down in Nordic countries

Groupon shuts down in Nordic countries
Ecommerce platform Groupon has closed its operations immediately in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. This decision follows after its business has been in decline for months now. Things don't look so swell for Groupon, which has said goodbye to 1,100 employees and exited other international markets recently.
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In Nordics, only Swedes like to shop Christmas gifts online

In Nordics, only Swedes like to shop Christmas gifts online
Consumers in the Nordic countries expect to conduct the majority of Christmas shopping offline. But Sweden is the notable exception, as a majority of consumers believe they will shop their gifts mostly online. In total, more than 80 percent of Nordic consumers will shop online this Christmas and almost a quarter of the Christmas shopping will be mobile.
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Swedish online bookstore Adlibris slowly evolves into department store

Swedish online bookstore Adlibris slowly evolves into department store
Swedish online retailer Adlibris no longer just sells books via its website, as it launched an extended range of completely new categories, both on its Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish websites. The expansion was announced earlier this year, but as of today consumers now also can shop at Adlibris for DIY & crafts items, kids & toys products and office supplies.
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Half of Nordic consumers want to choose the delivery method

Half of Nordic consumers want to choose the delivery method
Consumers in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark shopped online for a total of 3.89 billion euros during the first three months of this year. Ecommerce increased by 7 percent compared with last year, although the Norwegian ecommerce showed some negative development. Nordic consumers are increasingly valuing the power of the recipient and want to choose the delivery method of the items they bought online.
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Cross-border ecommerce in the Nordics grows steadily

Cross-border ecommerce in the Nordics grows steadily
Cross-border ecommerce is growing steadily in the Nordic countries. Especially online stores in Sweden are popular among other Scandinavians. Norwegian consumers shop the most at foreign online stores. Ten percent of all Norwegians shop at Swedish ecommerce sites at some point every quarter.
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Compare Group wants 50% growth in 2015

Compare Group wants 50% growth in 2015
Compare Group, a Dutch holding company consisting of five price comparison services in four different countries, wants to welcome 50% more visitors in 2015 than it had last year. And in terms of clicks it thinks it could achieve even much more growth. We interviewed CEO Ben Kerkhof, who explained to us why the company mostly thinks about a girl named Lisa these days…
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Shopify partners with Finnish personalization solution Nosto

Shopify and Nosto have today announced a global partnership, which provides Shopify's client base of over 120.000 retailers worldwide with access to recommendations and personalization features within minutes. Nosto is a Finnish company that has built a plug-n-play recommendation engine, enabling customers from online shops to have a personalized shopping experience.
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RePack: reusable packaging for online retailers

RePack: reusable packaging for online retailers
The average Finnish consumer produces about 176 pounds of waste per year. We don't even want to know what the average packaging waste is in other European countries. But a Finnish startup came up with a brilliant solution. They invented a sustainable packaging system whereby packages can be returned and then re-used. Meet RePack.
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Nordic online stores should think more globally

Some Nordic retailers are well known from all over the world. Take IKEA, H&M and Oriflame for example. But still, online stores from Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland must think more globally. Nowadays a lot of these sites only provide other Nordic languages and don’t serve markets with high demand.
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