The InternetRetailing Europe Top500 (IREU Top500) is the first Europe-wide retail performance index, ranking the Top500 most significant multichannel and eCommerce retailers based on their performance across six Dimensions, and a source of information and inspiration to the modern retailer. The IREU portfolio is powered by RetailX and includes the annual report with the Top500 list as well as six in-depth Performance Dimension Reports, which are published throughout the year. Download the reports below, subscribe to receive ongoing performance analysis, and join the discussion on #RetailCraft via @etail
AO World today reported full-year results, with revenues of £701.2m in the year to March 31, 17% up on the previous year, and pre-tax losses of £7m, up from a loss of £6.7m last time. Most of its turnover came from the UK – at £629.7m this was 12.7% up (more…)
Quiz is to sell its fast fashion womenswear via Zalando in a move that makes the German platform its biggest international online partner to date. The omnichannel brand says the move will help it to expand its international presence and its online offering. Quiz will sell a core selection of (more…)
In an era when many companies and individuals sell goods via the web, the question of what constitutes a retailer is surprisingly complex. It’s not enough in itself to have a website or operate a store. In arriving at our definition of a retailer, we have considered the intent, capabilities, and (more…)
More customers shopped more often at Zalando in the first quarter of its financial year, helping it to revenues of €980.2m in the first quarter of its financial year – 23.1% up on the same period last year. Earnings before interest and tax reached €20.3m, flat with the previous year. (more…)
Most brand websites enjoy top placement in results for a Google search of their own name, suggests a new Top500 analysis of google.co.uk results for 50 of the largest UK brands. The analysed brands are both wholesalers of their labelled products and, through their retail operations, competitors with their wholesale (more…)
Merchandising is all about encouraging the sale of products. In the real world, it can include visual displays, product assortment and availability, and promotional activity – anything that will encourage shoppers to buy. Online the same rules apply, to which we can also add such factors as ease of checkout, (more…)
The InternetRetailing Australia Top250, the newest report in our stable of objective retail performance analyses, will be released later this year. Drawing on years of experience in weighing performance in the European retail space, RetailX will produce the first ever retail performance index of Australian retailers. The IRAU Top250 Footprint (more…)
We took a look at Kingfisher Group’s full-year figures to find out what they said about the group’s digital strategy. Kingfisher Group owns UK retailers B&Q , a Top50 retailer in IRUK Top500 research, and Leading retailer Screwfix . It also owns IREU Top150 retailer Castorama and Brico Dépôt in (more…)
The second annual InternetRetailing Summit will take place in Berlin this July. The event, which runs from July 3 to July 5, brings together senior figures from leading retailers from across the European Economic Area (EEA) plus Switzerland for an immersive three-day event spent focusing on the way that multichannel (more…)
InternetRetailing’s Top500 is the definitive index of retail performance in the UK and the European Economic Area, with annual updates for both regions. Read the latest reports on the Europe Top500 and UK Top500 here. The tracking list The hardest part of the Top500 is getting companies onto our radar (more…)
Alzashop.com’s vice-chairman, Tomáš Havryluk, and head of international marketing, Jiri Maly, discuss taking on retail’s biggest beast. Paul Skeldon listens in The lure of pan-national cross-channel retail has not been lost of many retailers. The success of brands such as Amazon and Argos – as well as IREU500 Elite retailers (more…)
The 2016 IREU Top500 Mobile and cross-channel report is now available to download and read online. The report, published in association with LogMeIn, is the latest in a series of six reports that further explore the themes of the IREU Top500 report, published in July. It comes at a time (more…)
Decathlon is expanding its RFID programme as it works the tags into all of its products in order to manage inventory and to keep goods secure. The sporting goods retailer, an Elite trader in IREU Top500 research, is continuing an existing supply programme with SML Group in a new phase (more…)
Customers hate delays in being served. This retail adage has become clearer and clearer in the digital age, in great part thanks to usability experts showing how even incremental improvements in page speed times can have a significant impact on a retailer’s margins and profitability.
Promoting your brand across borders can be challenging – especially without stores on the high street to provide a physical presence. Hardly surprising then, that many of our Top50 in the IREU Top500 Brand Engagement Performance Dimension are well-established retailers, both in their home countries and internationally. 1. How much (more…)
The first IREU Top500 Performance Dimension Report is now available to read online. The report continues work first started in the IRUK Top500 series of reports, which is now extended to the European Economic Area plus Switzerland. In this series InternetRetailing’s research team aims to understand how retailers scale up (more…)
The French retailer tries to talk to customers across different channels, says its UK PR and conversations manager Kieran O’Shea, interviewed in the first IREU Top500 Brand Engagement report. Decathlon’s motto is “making sport accessible to the many” and in the UK, that’s the remit of PR and conversations manager (more…)
Czech retailer Alza is targeting the UK market through a new website and online marketing campaigns. The retailer, which wins a place in IREU Top500 research, was founded in 1994 and is well-known in its Czech Republic domestic market. It has a range of more than 50,000 products, from PCs, (more…)
Apple, Bon Prix, Next, Decathlon, H&M and Zara have been named Europe’s leading multichannel retailers in the first IREU Top500 report, which is published today. The retailers are ranked Elite in the new InternetRetailing performance-based ranking of Europe’s leading 500 retailers. It was developed by assessing the leading European retailers (more…)
Senior retailers from across Europe gathered in Berlin last week for the first InternetRetailing Europe Summit. The three-day event saw the launch of the IREU Top500, described by editor-in-chief Ian Jindal as the first research and performance-based analysis of European ecommerce and multichannel retail. But at heart this was an (more…)
