It is difficult to date the start of Internet retailing (e-tailing or e-retail as it is more commonly called). But the Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG), which proclaims itself to be "the industry body for global e-retailing" was founded in 1990, when the industry was in its absolute infancy. Its e-retail sales data index was re-calibrated in 2000 which is a convenient point to use as a basis for e-retail growth and its arrival as a credible method of retailing. Before then, at the end of the 1990s, the sector had been battered by the dot.com bubble in which companies with negligible sales and significant losses were first lauded to the skies with outrageous share values and then savaged by the same financial institutions, which had launched them. This briefing assesses the sector today, and includes estimates of the size of the market.
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The contents of this report is as follow:
Single-user licence edition ii
Copyright statement ii
Table of contents iii
List of tables iv
Just-style.com membership v
Online retailing to date 1
Marketing, service and fulfilment 6
Phase 1 - Marketing 6
Phase 2 - Transactional database 6
Phase 3 - Fulfilment 7
"Hard" and "Soft" goods 10
Estimates of the market 12
Online versus traditional retailing 15
Online issues in fashion 17
To e- or not to e-, that is the question 20
How far can online go? 22
Online sources of information 25
Free email newsletters 25
Other research reports 25
Global news and feature articles 25
Search the web 25
Your feedback 26
List of tables
Table 1: The IMRG UK E-Retail Index 2
Table 2: The IMRG UK E-Retail Index - Christmas over Christmas 3
Table 3: The IMRG UK E-Retail Fashion Index 4
Table 4: Comparison of IMRG index data between UK E-Retail and UK E-Retail Fashion - The Fashion Share of Retail Internet Sales 4
Table 5: The IMRG UK E-Retail Fashion Index represented as GBP m's 5
Table 6: US and UK estimated 2004 retail sales and all internet-retail sales 13
Table 7: Growth of e-fashion as a percentage of all retail fashion to 2010 22
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