Read our exploration into these are growing businesses that serve online shoppers within 32 markets: those of the European Union and European Economic Area plus the UK and Switzerland. Growth 3000 members hail from a variety of markets and sell goods from a range of categories.
As inflation and interest rates both start to fall, they are selling to shoppers who are starting to look forward to an easing of the cost-of-living issues that have affected the continent in recent years.
Analysis in this year’s Growth 3000 Europe report is organised around the value chain model that is now the foundation of RetailX analysis. This explores how retailers and brands add value in the Customer, Product, Operations and Capital Value Chains as they go through all the steps involved in selling goods.
We investigate the economic context, while illustrating our metrics with case studies that show how retailers selling to Europe are putting them into practice.
Throughout, we use RetailX graphics to illustrate our findings. Those graphics are available to reuse under licence and we encourage you to do so.
Inclusion in RetailX Ranking Reports is based on the size, or ‘Footprint’, of retailers, brands and marketplaces: their impact in terms of search volume, visits, stores, social reach and turnover.
This report includes the 3,000 brands that follow on from the annual RetailX Europe Top1000 report, selling to the 30 markets of the EEA plus the UK and Switzerland.
We consider retail revenues, both online and offline, the number of stores, the volume of web traffic and the popularity and use of apps to give each retailer a Footprint value.
Our rankings are based on performance – the services that brands offer the consumer – and how that performance is rewarded via revenues, profile and profit. Four value chains drive this performance:
The final ranking of the list combines both Footprint with the Value Chain results of all brands in the list to produce a ranking where brands are listed alphabetically within performance clusters.
Our analysis of the European ecommerce market is illustrated with company profiles showcasing the 10 retailers standing out in the market. Each profile offers company profit and sales figures, share price and web traffic as well as a review of what makes their business exemplary.
You can download the full 63 page RetailX Europe Growth3000 Report 2024 for free below, but if you need some more convincing, take at some of the sample pages from the report first.
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