News of the week: online payments and courier companies are rising, Evomag celebrates 11 years
evoMAG celebrates 11 years
evoMAG online store was launched in 2005 and just turned 11 years of activity on the e-commerce market in Romania. In 11 years it reached a total amount of 508 million lei worth of sales and a total of 610.000 orders. Today the company has 62 employees. More details about the evoMAG activity on Ecompedia.ro.
Increase in online payments
According to the latest figures provided exclusively for GPeC by RomCard, online card payments have increased by 62% in the first 3 months of 2016 compared with the same period last year. Thus, in the first quarter, a 148.4 million euros worth of online payments were processed in 3D Secure, compared to 91.2 million euros processed in the first quarter of 2015.
Courier companies, larger businesses starting 2016
Both FAN Courier and DPD, announced this week that the first quarter of the year brought growth exceeding 20%. “E-commerce is the prom queen. If a few years ago, the impact of e-commerce in turnover was 3-4%, now it goes to 35-40%.”, says Felix Pătrăşcanu, FAN Courier CEO and founder. More details can be found on zf.ro and wall-street.ro.