Ecommerce World Review

Brand New Format

29-30 March

2022

Sustainability 101: Everything you need to know

Led by findings from the RetailX Sustainability report 2021, this webinar follows Europe’s leading retailers on their journey to a greener future.

From innovative business models to eco-conscious consumer behaviours, our expert panel discusses sustainability from an ecommerce perspective, providing actionable insight into: recyclable packaging, product transparency and low-emission shipping.

Watch on demand now to reboot your sustainability strategy for 2022.

Featured speakers:

Renaud Marlière, Chief Marketing and Sales Officer at Asendia

Anders Frost Nygård, Carrier Manager from BESTSELLER Ecommerce

Emma Herrod, Editor at InternetRetailing


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Webinar Sponsors

Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform giving enterprise B2C and B2B commerce companies the freedom to do more. Serving more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, and Very Group, we exist to help them deliver more powerful experiences.

Tealium is Customer Data Platform that provides products and solutions for companies to collect, unify and leverage customer data to improve customer experience across different channels. Its tools are easily integrated with other data sources and aim to centralise data for different areas of organisations to create and manage personalised digital experiences.

ChannelAdvisor’s multichannel platform connects your products with more of today’s consumers — where they shop, when they shop and how they shop.

Consumers are in more places than ever before. Connect your products to the channels where they are discovering and buying.

 

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes scale globally and get tax compliance right. With international tax solutions from Avalara, businesses can manage duties and cross-border tariffs, calculate VAT and GST, automate item classification for shipments, obtain registrations, and manage returns so they can grow globally and serve customers around the world. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the US, and in Brazil, Europe, and India.

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Create a banking or payments platform that integrates with popular and emerging channels.

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Acquia empowers thousands of the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers and IT operations teams to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions and help businesses stand out.

ShipStation is the leading web-based order management and shipping software designed to make retailers exceptionally efficient at processing, fulfilling, and shipping their ecommerce orders. We combine order processing, inventory management, creation of shipping labels, and customer communication all into one easy-to-use interface that integrates directly with over 100 of the industry’s top carriers, marketplaces, and selling channels.

Spryker enables companies to create winning transactional business models in B2B,  Enterprise Marketplaces, Unified Commerce and B2C. It is the most modern cloud native platform-as-a-service solution with over 100% year-over-year growth, headless, API based, enterprise-ready, and loved by Sales, Marketeers and Developers worldwide.

Spryker is built out of true innovation to create the most flexible and agile commerce software on the market. This requires a special mindset, relentless human effort, and lots of collaboration within our team, which we proudly call “our herd.” An international team of unique “Sprykees” is the reason for our catching spirit!

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We combine the experience and expertise of our founding companies, La Poste and Swiss Post, to provide international mail, parcel and e-commerce solutions from 17 countries worldwide, and delivering to over 200 destinations.

Linnworks enables businesses to manage their multichannel inventory, orders and fulfilment from a single dashboard and provides deep insights across sales channels and operations. By equipping brands and retailers to conduct commerce wherever their customers are, Linnworks powers businesses to drive growth and boost brand success. As both Amazon and eBay’s largest European commerce partner, Linnworks processes $8bn+ GMV each year globally, and serves some of the world’s biggest brands.

Mondi Group offers a full portfolio of eCommerce packaging solutions and products that are fit for purpose, innovative and sustainable by design. We are setting new standards in the industry with our expertise in sustainable materials and product design. Driven by an agile and customer-centric mindset, our extensive network of in-house designers and engineers develop award-winning eCommerce solutions together with our partners. Our focus is on decreasing total packaging costs, reducing waste, and meeting end-consumer needs through a combination of our sustainability expertise and full portfolio of multi-material solutions, including kraft and functional barrier paper, paper bags and corrugated solutions.

Tue 29 March – 10:00

Middle East ecommerce: How to stand out from the competition

Join us as we analyse the economies of Iran, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates from an ecommerce and multichannel retail perspective. Our discussion, based on the Middle East Ecommerce Region Report, will be a clear cut overview of the variables that retailers and retail brands should take into account when deciding whether to expand in the Middle East. 

We will zoom in on each country and take into account the types of consumers, shopping preferences and digital maturity level. We then look at real-world examples of notable sellers in the region and what is making them stand out from the competition.

Sponsors:          Tealium Sponsor RetailX

Tue 29 March – 10:40

An overview of the Polish retail landscape

Our second webinar of Ecommerce World Review will focus on the context behind Poland’s fertile ecommerce landscape, through the ins and outs of the Polish digital economy offering a clear and comprehensive overview of this retail landscape.

Whether you’re a seasoned seller in Poland or just scoping the market before launching here, our quick-fire presentation, based on the RetailX Poland 2021: Ecommerce Country Report, will discuss everything you need to be successful, including opportunities, challenges and current best practices. We will also consider the political backdrop – in particular, the ongoing tensions between Warsaw and Brussels – and how this has affected the industry in question.

Sponsors: Tealium Sponsor RetailX

Tue 29 March – 11:20

Understanding the US consumer

Accounting for almost 30% of total global wealth, the USA definitely offers a promising ecommerce environment for current and future sellers. Join our discussion in which we will take you through the ins and outs of America’s digital economy, including its global position in the Logistics Performance Index. You will come away with a clearer understanding of the US consumer, from shopping habits to reasons to avoid the online shopping world.

Our experts will also focus on the issue of sustainability and zoom in on the USA’s ambitious climate change goals following COP26. We will also take time to discuss the rising prominence of the metaverse and what brands and retailers should be doing about it.

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Tue 29 March – 12:00

The future of ecommerce in Europe

Join us for a run down of our flagship report the European 2021 Ecommerce Region Report. Our experts will discuss the future of commerce across the continent as well as pull our macro differences between internal regions and discuss the impact of political and geographical factors on ecommerce.

Obviously our experts cannot ignore the coronavirus-shaped elephant in the room and will discuss the recovery and how the crisis has affected shopping habits in each European country.

You cannot discuss retail without looking closely at the other crisis of our time – sustainability – in great detail. Europe has plans to become the first carbon-neutral continent, so our panel will also zoom in on retailers CDP environmental scores for RetailX EU500 Elite retailers

Sponsors: 

Tue 29 March – 12:40

How the pandemic and Brexit have affected UK ecommerce

Has the UK made a recovery from the twin pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic and brexit? Retailers have had to drastically adapt their businesses at an accelerated pace, just to stay afloat.

Our panel of experts will look at how retailers are responding to both these factors.

Our webinar will discuss how UK shoppers are shopping in 2022? What are the trends from peak and what can be expected as future trading agreements are negotiated and inflation bites. 

On a more optimistic note, our panel will discuss the new technology that  many retailers amongst our analysis  are using to emerge out of this turbulent era as better, more innovative and future-facing companies.

Sponsors:        Tealium Sponsor RetailX

Tue 29 March – 13:20

How to break into the Nordics market

The Nordics represent highly mature and technologically advanced markets where competition is fierce, however the Nordics ecommerce scene also has room for new entrants – provided they can impress the local shoppers. Our panel will discuss what retailers need to do to enter and thrive in the Nordics as well as how the population shops.

We will discuss the long lasting impact of the pandemic on the ecommerce markets of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. For example, changes in online purchasing, best selling categories and everything in between. We’ll also delve into the unique aspects of each market, such as shopping attitudes, delivery options and e-shoppers by age. 

As always, the discussion will be based on our research with real-world and practical case study examples.

Sponsors: Tealium Sponsor RetailX

Tue 29 March – 14:00

A deep dive into the Middle East Beauty & Cosmetics Sector

The Middle East is one of the world’s fastest growing beauty markets in the world, with interesting regional and international retailers and brands. It is exciting from the point of view of ecommerce inviting best practice models, technical centres of excellence and omnichannel opportunities. Of course, each country is different, but there are global trends that are affecting every market, including those in this region.
Join our expert panel as we set out to discover the similarities and differences in the Middle East Beauty market as it pertains to the beauty, personal care and cosmetics sector. The size of the markets for the product groups of cosmetics, fragrances, skin care and personal care, the mix of channels through which consumers buy such products, and indeed the depth to which ecommerce and mobile commerce have been adopted.

Sponsors:Tealium Sponsor RetailX

Wed 30 March – 10:00

How have European marketplace structures evolved?

Our panel of experts will explore the rise and rise of Marketplaces, with as many as 64% of UK consumers now routinely turning to marketplaces first for online shopping

Our discussion will give you a deepened understanding of how each major European market has evolved its marketplace structure and how those marketplaces work for consumers and for merchants, as well as acting as an almanac of what they sell and how to meet this demand.

The panel discussion will focus on the 2021 European Marketplaces Report but will also pull in points from the Brands and Marketplaces Report 2021 and the Growth 2000 Marketplaces Report 2021

Sponsors:      ChannelAdvisor

Wed 30 March – 10:40

Sustainability 101: Everything you need to know

Our panel will offer comprehensive picture of the current state and future direction of sustainability amongst Europe’s leading retailers and brands.

Which issues are important to eco-conscious consumers? Are retailers sharing their sustainability journey with shoppers? Do retailers need to think about products differently to avoid greenwashing? Can supply chains be used to deliver sustainable change? What does a pair of circular jeans look like today?

Join our discussion to find out all this and more – including new business models that are developing out of the need for sustainable businesses, products and processes. We also consider the four value chains in retail: customer, product, operations and shareholder.

Sponsors:     asendia webinar week sponsor

Wed 30 March – 11:20

How to stand out from the competition in the UK ecommerce market

The RetailX UK Growth 2000: 2021 brings fresh insights into the way retailers have raised their ecommerce performance at a time when shoppers are doing more of their shopping online. Our panel will look closely at ecommerce and multichannel retailers across the UK and what they are doing to stand out against the increasing competition.

Our experts will discuss our research which  ranks sellers based on their performance in four growth-focused Dimensions: Find, Mobile, Delivery and Checkout. Through this close analysis, we aim to help retailers benchmark their own performance in digital commerce as they grow. We also consider the areas where growth may have taken a step backwards in light of Brexit and Covid-19.

Sponsors:           

Wed 30 March – 12:00

An analysis of the key players in the Luxury market

The RetailX UK Growth 2000: 2021 brings fresh insights into the way retailers have raised their ecommerce performance at a time when shoppers are doing more of their shopping online. Our panel will look closely at ecommerce and multichannel retailers across the UK and what they are doing to stand out against the increasing competition.

Our experts will discuss our research which  ranks sellers based on their performance in four growth-focused Dimensions: Find, Mobile, Delivery and Checkout. Through this close analysis, we aim to help retailers benchmark their own performance in digital commerce as they grow. We also consider the areas where growth may have taken a step backwards in light of Brexit and Covid-19.

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