This document provides excerpts from a comprehensive research study on the Russian digital industries conducted by East-West Digital News in partnership with Fast Lane Ventures.
The study is based on interviews with over 80 industry executives and experts. It contains 10 chapters and 316 pages of analysis on topics such as the main e-commerce trends and markets in Russia, the largest online retailers, demand and supply factors, fulfillment, payments, marketing, legal issues, and case studies.
To receive an executive summary or order the full report, readers are instructed to email the publisher.
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Data Insight announced new research "Fulfillment for e-commerce"
Composition:
1. Overview of the Russian fulfillment market. Main figures and trends of the market.
2. Description of fulfillment as a service. The scheme of the life cycle of the order, including
processes that can or cannot be outsourced to the contractor.
3. Recommendations and explanations how to read fulfillment operators’ cards. The chapter
explains what each point in the player's card means.
4. Company profiles. 28 detailed standardized profiles (cards) of companies. The cards have the
same parameters so they can easily be compared with each other.
5. Fulfillment operators’ cases with their customers online stores. Materials provided by players,
describing the solution of problems of different types of customers.
The main results:
1. In 2016, the fulfillment market size reached RUB 7 billion and 23 million parcels.
2. Up to 10% of distance selling, including e-commerce, catalog shopping, teleshopping and MLM,
is processed by fulfillment operators.
3. Fulfillment service is offered by: fulfillment operators (30%), courier companies (26%), online
stores (29%), 3PL and transport companies (15%).
4. More than a half of fulfillment operators have their own courier service, which is used in
addition to the partner delivery network.
5. Courier companies that started the fulfillment business in 2014–2015 did not expect it to grow
into a more complex product than it seems at first glance.
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Intended for practical use by online retailers and service providers, this research study – the first of its kind – sheds full light on cross-border sales to Russia. Based on interviews with 50 top market players and experts, this study provides fascinating data and insights about:
The latest market evolutions: How the market skyrocketed in 2013, why some Western e-merchants are recording slower growth in 2014, and what to expect next;
Russian consumers’ preferences and fears, how to inspire their trust and turn them into loyal consumers;
Why and how international online stores and PSPs should integrate localized payment methods;
How to optimize shipments to Russia and get through the Russian customs seamlessly;
How to fight fraud, and how to increase payment acceptance rates when working with Russian card holders;
How to comply with the Russian legislation – from forbidden goods, to IP protection requirements, to personal data collection, storage and use.
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- 2/3 of Russian freelancers work cross-border
- Freelancers who work with foreign orders are on average more mature and more prosperous
- 1/3 of freelancers started to work with foreign clients no more than a year ago
- 83% of freelancers see international market as extremely promising
- More than a half of freelancers experience a remarkable rise in income from foreign orders
- Main difficulties of working with foreign clients: competition, language and time gap
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The e-commerce purchase journey is complex, and it can expand offline. Here, omnichannel is the only strategy that makes sense as it fosters interaction between retailers and shoppers across all channels, from storefronts to smart devices and desktops, through emails, call centers, smartphone applications, and even smart TVs.
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Data Insight announced new research "Fulfillment for e-commerce"
Composition:
1. Overview of the Russian fulfillment market. Main figures and trends of the market.
2. Description of fulfillment as a service. The scheme of the life cycle of the order, including
processes that can or cannot be outsourced to the contractor.
3. Recommendations and explanations how to read fulfillment operators’ cards. The chapter
explains what each point in the player's card means.
4. Company profiles. 28 detailed standardized profiles (cards) of companies. The cards have the
same parameters so they can easily be compared with each other.
5. Fulfillment operators’ cases with their customers online stores. Materials provided by players,
describing the solution of problems of different types of customers.
The main results:
1. In 2016, the fulfillment market size reached RUB 7 billion and 23 million parcels.
2. Up to 10% of distance selling, including e-commerce, catalog shopping, teleshopping and MLM,
is processed by fulfillment operators.
3. Fulfillment service is offered by: fulfillment operators (30%), courier companies (26%), online
stores (29%), 3PL and transport companies (15%).
4. More than a half of fulfillment operators have their own courier service, which is used in
addition to the partner delivery network.
5. Courier companies that started the fulfillment business in 2014–2015 did not expect it to grow
into a more complex product than it seems at first glance.
Russia B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Report 2013yStats.com
The recent „Russia B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Report 2013“ by Hamburg-based secondary
market research company yStats.com provides information about B2C E-Commerce and the movement
toward online and mobile purchase transactions in Russia.
New version 2015: http://www.slideshare.net/olegzhukov524/ecommerce-market-in-russia-2015
E-commerce market in Russia 2014: facts, figures, international comparison, trends & perspectives
Intended for practical use by online retailers and service providers, this research study – the first of its kind – sheds full light on cross-border sales to Russia. Based on interviews with 50 top market players and experts, this study provides fascinating data and insights about:
The latest market evolutions: How the market skyrocketed in 2013, why some Western e-merchants are recording slower growth in 2014, and what to expect next;
Russian consumers’ preferences and fears, how to inspire their trust and turn them into loyal consumers;
Why and how international online stores and PSPs should integrate localized payment methods;
How to optimize shipments to Russia and get through the Russian customs seamlessly;
How to fight fraud, and how to increase payment acceptance rates when working with Russian card holders;
How to comply with the Russian legislation – from forbidden goods, to IP protection requirements, to personal data collection, storage and use.
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- Freelancers who work with foreign orders are on average more mature and more prosperous
- 1/3 of freelancers started to work with foreign clients no more than a year ago
- 83% of freelancers see international market as extremely promising
- More than a half of freelancers experience a remarkable rise in income from foreign orders
- Main difficulties of working with foreign clients: competition, language and time gap
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2. About this study
These are excerpts from a comprehensive research study offered by East-
West Digital News, the international resource on Russian digital industries, in
partnership with Fast Lane Ventures.
Based on interviews with over 80 industry executives and experts, the
research was conducted with the participation of leading consultancies and
universities.
To receive an executive summary at no charge or order the full version
(10 chapters, 316 pages), please email us at report@ewdn.com
About the publisher
East-West Digital News is the first international information company dedicated
to Russian digital industries. Its website EWDN.COM provides news, market
data, business analysis and updates pertaining to the Internet, e-commerce,
mobile and telecom industries, digital TV and satellite systems, software and
hardware innovation, as well as to the related investment activity and legal
developments.
A consulting branch, East-West Digital Consulting, provides international
players with assistance for business development in Russia and advises
Russian companies on their international strategies.
For more information, please contact us at contact@ewdn.com
3. Foreword
Marina Treshchova
In 2010, while deciding on our first company to launch, there was no doubt in our minds
that it should be an e-commerce startup. We were absolutely sure that the time had
come; the e-commerce market had started to boom and would continue to grow quickly
and exponentially. We saw a large gap in the market; the absence of convenient and
necessary consumer services available in Russia. It may be difficult to believe but two
years ago, when we started Sapato.ru, there were no online shoe shop in Russia!
Skeptics tried to convince us that Russian women would never buy shoes online but 2
year later Sapato.ru is the №1 online retailer generating millions in revenue and
receiving hundreds of thousands of orders per year.
This proved to be a game changer; we proved the necessity of qualitative internet
services for Russian consumers and now see huge opportunities in the future.
In a recent study into the potential growth of e-commerce in the emerging markets made
by consulting company A. T. Kearney, Russia was ranked number three. The key driver
behind this ranking is clear; Russia’s constantly expanding internet audience. Currently,
the demands of Russian consumers are still not being met, and so we anticipate the
number of online retailers will increase dramatically to satisfy this demand.
The number of the new online services reflects Russia’s expanding online audience.
There are about 30,000 online shops in Russia at the moment. We have seen a new
generation of customers appear, those that demand perfect service and a wide choice
in goods, and it is these customers who prefer the advantages of online retailers.
Furthermore, we see an unprecedented growth in the number of internet
entrepreneurs in the country, and e-commerce is one of the key market sectors setting
the tone in the development of Russian internet businesses.
Fast Lane Ventures continues to be on the cutting edge of the Russian internet,
launching new e-commerce businesses with the capability to become market leaders
and setting new standards for Russian customers. With other players of the market,
we are bound to take Russian e-commerce to the next level.
Marina Treshchova is the CEO and a co-founder of Fast Lane Ventures
4. Chief Editor’s note
Adrien Henni
We are pleased to offer key insights of a year-long research project on the
Russian online retail market, one of the fastest growing but least known (and
understood) on the planet.
The report provides international audiences with the first reliable and precise
data on this market, plus middle and long term forecasts and trends.
Beyond capital-centric analysis, the full version also explores the regional
e-commerce scene – now nearing the tipping point in a market thus far
dominated by Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Yet our research is, above all, a practical guide. In the full version, more than
150 pages are dedicated to analysis of and recommendations for each of the
key issues defining the industry – from marketing to payments, from fulfillment to
legal requirements and on to little known HR challenges.
Last but not least, entrepreneurs and investors will enjoy a review by Fast Lane
Ventures of the e-commerce-related investment deals that have taken place in
Russia over the last two years, with an analysis of the financial issues pertaining
to Russian e-commerce and the exit perspectives in the industry.
We hope you enjoy this groundbreaking collaborative effort and wish you every
success in your e-commerce projects.
Adrien Henni is the Chief editor and a co-founder
of East-West Digital News
5. 18
Russian E-commerce 2011 million
THE NUMBERS Russians
shopped online
Sources: Data Insight and East-West Digital News in a 6-month period,
unless stated otherwise or 14% of the population 18+
(or 7 million monthly)
Total of which
market $10.5bn was spent on
size:
(310bn rub.)
$7.8bn physical
(230bn rub.) goods…
…while cross–border
sales reached
$ 700 m
Online retail
accounted of the total Russian
2%
for less than retail market…
…but grew by at least in one year
+25%
89 orders
of which
of physical goods 45
million
were made during the year
million
(or 245,000 per day)
(or 125,000 per day)
came from the regions
Insales counted
25,000 of which
only 10 made $100m or more
in sales (physical goods only)
Internet
shops while the revenues of the
30 top players
up from 16,000 in 2010
or just 268 that same
totaled less than
$3bn
year, according to the
Russian official statistics or 1/3 of the total market size
(physical goods only)
6. Russian E-commerce 2011
INTERNATIONAL
COMPARISONS
In 2011, the sales volume of online retail in The fact that Russia ranks fairly high among
Russia was similar to that in Italy, Spain or European countries in share of online
Brazil, while significantly behind the USA shoppers in total Internet users, does not
and the EU. The share of online retail in total provide evidence of exhausted growth
retail amounted to less than 2%, compared potential. The mid-term potential of Russia’s
to between 7% and 9% in the USA and most online shopper base to expand could be
West European countries. In the UK, the higher than that of European countries.
share has gone beyond 10%. The low
penetration of e-commerce in Russia (where This optimistic outlook is based on the fact
in 2011 only around 15% of adult population that many characteristics of Internet use in
shopped online) is, however, linked not so Russia, such as Internet behavior, is less like
much to lack of interest in online retail, but other European countries and more like what
rather with a relatively low Internet is seen in Asian and Latin American markets,
penetration. where the Internet audience is significantly
more involved in e-commerce than in
Relevance of Internet retail in Russia is fairly Europe.
high, as 40% of Internet users shopped
online in 2010, which was ahead of Italy, In Europe, only the UK has a share of online
Greece, and new EU members from Central shoppers as a percentage of total Internet
Europe and the Baltics. The share of online users that has surpassed the 80% level,
shoppers in total Internet users in Spain that whereas the level is well above 80% in such
year was comparable to that in Russia, while other developed markets as the USA and
being 1.5-2 times higher in the most Japan, and developing ones, such as Brazil
developed countries (65-85%). and China.
7. Russian E-commerce
FORECASTS
We anticipate an at least 2.5-fold market In a long term perspective, according to
growth between 2010 and 2015. The total e- moderate forecasts, the market size of Russian
commerce market could amount to somewhere e-commerce could reach $50 bn by 2020. In no
between 690 bn rubles ($23 bn) and 900 bn case should this figure, which represents
rubles ($30 bn) in 2015, at 2010 values. This around 6% of Russia's total retail market, be
corresponds to up to 5% of total retail volume regarded as a maximum. Further strong growth
in Russia. For reference, the same level of e- will be fueled mainly by such structural factors
commerce existed in the USA in 2008, i.e. as:
Russia is behind approximately 10 years, by • Fulfilment infrastructure reaching maturity:
this measure. With reduced delivery costs, the scope of e-
commerce will extend to cheaper product
The fastest growth rate, 3.6-fold or more, is categories;
expected to be found in the regions, with a • E-signature and online payments becoming
considerable flow of new Internet users from more popular, with mass demand for non-
there. They will account for the majority of the material products such as insurance and tour
growth of the e-commerce market – for 87% in package offers.
terms of number of new online shoppers and
for 59% in terms of market value growth Russian e-commerce could thus represent a
between 2010 and 2015. market of up to $150 bn within 15 to 20 years.
8. Russian E-commerce 2012
THE TRENDS
Source: East-West Digital News
The market is growing by at least 25% each
1 year; some major online retailers are even
seeing their sales double or triple.
The regions still lag behind the capitals, but
2 pioneering retailers now generate more than
half of their sales from the regions
Major offline retailers are now coming to
3 e-commerce while online-offline concepts
multiply.
Investment activity is growing fast, but exits
4 are still exceptions and are likely to remain so
at least in the short term.
Logistics and delivery are still bottlenecks for
5 e-commerce in the regions; major retailers
overcome this by building their own capacities.
Cash-on-delivery is the rule for physical goods
6 and will remain so for a long time, but merchants
find ways to cope with the related issues.
The lack of qualified human resources
7 appears to be one of the most painful issues,
hampering the entire Internet industry.
Cross-border sales have grown considerably
8 over the last few years, but foreign e-merchants
still have to pull down two major walls: customs
clearance and delivery across Russia.
9. TOP RUSSIAN
An exclusive ranking
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10. Methodological
Note
In the absence of officially disclosed Vseinstrumenti.ru, a site offering tools
figures for most players, establishing a and appliances for the home and
ranking of the top Russian online garden, had remained under the radars
retailers is a daunting exercise. until recently. Its importance on the
Russian e-commerce scene is revealed
Several rankings do exist, based on a for the first time in this ranking.
variety of online measurements,
information from industry sources and/
or other unspecified methodology; none *
of these can be considered completely
reliable.
Our methodology for estimating
For certain sites, 2011 sales estimates turnovers has been the following:
may vary up to eight-fold between two
rankings. In particular, the turnover of • We systematically requested figures
Citylink.ru, a major site offering and sometimes obtained them, either
consumer electronics, was estimated at officially or unofficially;
$310 million by Online Retailer – a far • For some other sites, we received
cry from Insales' more modest estimate information from reliable insiders or
of $37 million. An internal source industry sources;
assured us that Online Retailer's figure
was close to reality, but Data Insight's • In still other cases, we relied on the
experts remained skeptical. Due to expertise of Data Insight, whose
these uncertainties, and in the absence analysts are among the best on the
of an official answer from the site, market;
Citylink.ru has not been included –
perhaps unfairly – in our ranking. • In the absence of official or unofficial
figures, reliable sources or an estimate
While KupiVip.ru's turnover "varies" from Data Insight, we averaged the
from $77 milllion, according to Insales, figures from existing rankings – or did
to $193 million, according to Online not include the site in the ranking when
Retailer, a well informed source told us the latter seemed unreliable.
that the site's gross merchandise value
was actually close to $160 million. In the absence of official figures, we felt
we reached a high degree of certainty
It is very likely that Amazon and eBay whenever at least two reliable industry
should be included in our ranking, sources, or experts, converged in their
based on the assumption that cross- estimates; or when the three main
border sales may have totaled some existing rankings offered similar figures.
$600 or $700 million in 2011, and that
these two sites account for a significant In other cases, the figures should not
part of this volume. However, neither be considered more than
site agreed to disclose data on their approximations, with a much lower
sales to Russia. degree of certainty.
11. A research by Fast Lane Ventures
V E N T U R E in partnership with
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IN RUSSIAN E-COMMERCE
Official data
2 0 1 0 - 2 0 1 1
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IN RUSSIAN E-COMMERCE
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Key figures and trends
Top 40 Russian e-commerce properties
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Part 8. HR: The most painful issue?
Part 9. E-commerce in the Samara region: A monograph
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