News

Sweden ecommerce sales increase by 18 percent in Q2 2016

Wednesday 7 September 2016 00:41 CET | News

The Sweden ecommerce saw its sales increase by 18% during Q2 2016, compared to the same period in 2015.

Expectations are the ecommerce industry in Sweden will be worth EUR 6.08 billion, ecommercenews.eu reports.

PostNord published its latest E-barometer, in collaboration with the Swedish Digital Trade and HUI Research and found that during the Q2 2016 especially sales in the food sector and the building trade that performed well, as they increased by 38 and 37% respectively.

Whereas, 17% of Swedes bought products and service from foreign websites in the Q1 2016, this share has increased to 21% during the Q2 2016. Swedes buy mostly from China, the UK, the US and Germany.

More than 90% of Swedish consumers who have shopped abroad, didn’t experience any problems. And a similar share of people who had contact with a foreign ecommerce company’s customer service was pleased with how it went. Only 9% of consumers who shopped at foreign ecommerce websites returned an item that wasn’t broken or anything.


Free Headlines in your E-mail

Every day we send out a free e-mail with the most important headlines of the last 24 hours.

Subscribe now

Keywords: Sweden, ecommerce, Q2, online sales, PostNord, Swedish Digital Trade, HUI Research
Categories: Payments & Commerce
Companies:
Countries: World
This article is part of category

Payments & Commerce






Industry Events