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Middle East Amazon (MiddleEastAmazon) refers to the e-commerce platform operated by Amazon in the Middle East. Currently, the Middle East Amazon service covers the following countries:
1. United Arab Emirates (UAE)
2. Saudi Arabia
3. Egypt
4. Jordan
5. Kuwait
6. Qatar
7. Oman
8. Bahrain
9. Lebanon
Consumers in these countries can purchase a variety of goods through the Middle East Amazon platform and enjoy the services and delivery provided by Amazon. Please note that the specific service scope and availability may vary by country and region.
What are the cross-border e-commerce platforms?
One: Souq
is the largest e-commerce platform in the Middle East market. It has been established for a long time and is headquartered in Dubai. At present, there are mainly four site markets, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait.
The platform has 6 million users, more than 31 product categories, and more than 8.4 million SKUs. It mainly sells electronic products, digital 3c, home kitchenware, baby products, toys and trendy clothing.
Souq’s target markets since its establishment are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt; currently souq is acquired by Amazon.
There are currently two ways to enter souq: (free to open a store)
Provide a scanned copy of the seller’s UAE business license, UAE bank account contact email and mobile phone number. Send the above information to the email of the Souq investment manager, and you can open a Souq seller account for free.
Open an account through an agent authorized by Souq. The information provided includes contact person, phone number, email, domestic business license, e-commerce platform that has been settled in, and link to self-operated independent stations.
Two: Shopee Shopee
The headquarters was established in 2015. At present, there are 8 site markets, including 7 foreign markets and 1 domestic market.
is the e-commerce platform we often talk about, and it is also the e-commerce platform that has joined the most sellers in recent years. It is also known as the Taobao of South East Asia. The platform is mainly aimed at low-end consumer groups, with a wide range. The operating platform starts with distributing goods, and then shifts to refined operations; the seller has a low entry threshold, no fees for opening a store, and no commissions for the first three months. These are all well understood, so I won’t talk about it.
Shopee is invested and controlled by domestic Tencent. To say that there is no development potential, do you believe it? ( I don’t believe it anyway)
Three: Lazada
is also an e-commerce platform in South East Asia. It is almost in a state of juxtaposition with Xiapi, and it has been established longer than Xiapi.
The platform is mainly aimed at mid-to-high-end consumer groups, and it is not very friendly to inexperienced novice Xiaobai, but if you have resources, contacts and experience, it is not a problem to open it in minutes.
Lazada is an e-commerce platform invested by domestic Alibaba. At present, the directors of Alibaba have been fully responsible. They all say that Ali wants to build a South East Asia version of JD.com, and I believe that the development potential is also great.
Four: Ozon
is the largest e-commerce platform in Russia, currently accounting for 20% of the Russian e-commerce market share.
Established relatively early, it was established in 1998. At first, it only sold books, and then the platform category gradually developed and improved.
Ozon has a richer sales category than other Russian e-commerce platforms, covering books, electronics, clothing, family, children, beauty, food, pets, sports and other categories (indeed compared to Doha), allowing sellers to have more shopping options.
Covering 2,100 locations in 130 cities in Russia, transporting goods to 75% of the population, it operates the largest storage facility in Eastern Europe, second only to Amazon’s German warehouse.
Payment methods 80% of sales support cash on delivery, while only 10% are paid by credit card.
Entry requirements:
1. Business license, legal person ID
2. Amazon or AliExpress store is not less than 2 years
3. The price of goods including logistics is not higher than other Russian e-commerce platforms
4. Can provide Russian customer service
5: Jumia
Mainly for the African market, it was established in Nigeria in 2012.
The Jumia website is affiliated with RocketInternet, an Internet incubator company in Europe. Jumia has more than 10 million fans on Facebook.
Jumia is the largest e-retailer in Africa. It has many industrial chains such as hotels, tourism, fresh food, e-commerce, car rental, logistics, security, etc. JumiaMaketplace has a footprint in 23 African countries, of which Egypt is the only platform that has obtained a national e-commerce license. (It looks great…)
Platform advantages:
Each site operates separately, has an independent front and back office, and sells in local currency;
Jumia has more than 10 million fans on Facebook;
It has its own e-commerce enterprise that delivers logistics at the end;
The African market 800 million population, the network coverage rate is about 30%, and 80% of consumers shop through Jumia.
Six: Gmarket
Gmarket is the largest comprehensive shopping website in South Korea. It ranks first in terms of the total value of merchandise sales in the Korean online retail market. It mainly sells books, MP3s, cosmetics, computers, home appliances, clothes, etc.
Platform advantages:
High-quality traffic covering South Korea
Continuously growing order amount
Rich and diverse hot-selling categories
Seven: MercadoLivre
The largest C2C platform in Brazil, equivalent to Taobao in China.
Gathers more than 52,000 sellers and registered users 50.20 million. The number of visits ranks among the top 50 in the world. The scope covers 13 countries and regions (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Dominica, Paraguay, Venezuela and Portugal).
In addition to the electronic transaction platform, there is also the largest payment platform similar to Alipay in South America. As a result, there are no localized websites in countries such as Mexico and Argentina.
Considering the rapidly increasing Internet penetration rate, MercardoLivre can provide sellers with a huge potential South American market opportunity. ( (Take a small book and write it down, to test)
Eight: TradeMe
Founded in 1999, Trademe is currently the largest e-commerce platform in New Zealand. TradeMe has 3.90 million users, the website has 800,000 daily visits, and the number of goods sold by TradeMe reached 6.60 million in 2015. The platform was named the most influential brand in New Zealand in 2015.
New and used goods store categories include baby products, books, clothing, computers and household goods; originally a used goods auction market, it was an early ebay replica, but now it also sells new products like new ebay.
Nine: Rakuten
Founded in 1997, Rakuten
has become the largest e-commerce site in Japan, with a market capitalization of $13.50 billion and annual revenue of over $4 billion.
Rakuten Shopping gathers 3,000 sellers, more than 80 million customers and 23 million products. The customer base is between the ages of 25 and 54, and is divided equally between men and women. Rakuten. com originally specialized in computers and electronics, but it now offers sporting goods, health and beauty, home and gardening, jewelry and toys, and more.
Ten: Tesco
Founded in 2012, Tesco
is the largest food and grocery retailer in the UK. It gathers more than 50 sellers, 43 million club card members, and 4 million monthly visits. It is moving a large customer base offline to online.
Competitors include Amazon, eBay and Rakuten; products include products such as home and gardening, baby products, sports and leisure, clothing and jewelry. Open to invited sellers only.
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