“E-commerce will generate a boom in business for German parcels firms over the next four years and expand overall market volumes by about 38 percent, a survey commissioned by the country’s postal watchdog RegTP forecast. Some 819 million additional parcels and express or courier items were likely to be generated by online sales in the year 2005, the survey by specialist consultant Manner-Romberg Unternehmensberatung (MRU) found.
Read MoreEven for companies more than holding their own in a tough e-business environment, stories of goods arriving late, later or never still cause planty of nightmares. After all, the work at the front end, creating a web site, is the easy bit. Knitting the whole operation together is where the difficulties arise, as integrated logistics, delivery and services fall under the spotlight of customer expectations – and consistently fail to live up to them.
Read More‘Reality’ is the confident new name adopted by Great Universal Stores for what it is calling Britain’s biggest-yet all-round direct sales fulfilment company. It combines the resources of GUS’s long-standing White Arrow delivery network with the Glasgow-based Reality Group, a Web design, hosting and e-commerce consultancy business it has acquired for £35 million
Read MoreTwo venture capital funds announced they would make $20 million available in a joint-venture specifically aimed at companies bringing e-commerce to the transportation and logistics industries
Read Moreone in five remote shoopers is dropping out
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