M Ryan is an ecommerce consultant with twenty years experience working with retailers, consumer brand manufacturers and other consumer-facing businesses helping them to develop their ecommerce strategy, implement ecommerce technology and improve their ecommerce operations. He works extensively throughout US and Europe, with clients including global brands, large retailers and household names in consumer goods.
October 7th, 2020. Kibo Commerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that Norwegian outdoor clothing brand Helly Hansen has implemented Kibo's Monetate and Certona personalization technology. Brian Wilson, Chief Operating Officer at Kibo Commerce noted blandly "it’s been so rewarding to work…
September 30th, 2020. VTEX, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, today announced that it has received an additional $225m in funding from private equity investors including Tiger Global, Lone Pine Capital, Constellation, Endeavour Catalyst and SoftBank. Co-CEOs Mariano Gomide de Faria and Geraldo Thomaz…
September 30th, 2020. commercetools, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its ecommerce platform has been deployed by ModCloth, the online fashion brand bought from Walmart by Go Global Retail in 2019. ModCloth was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California…
According to Websters, ecommerce is simply the conduct of "commerce on the Internet". The Britannica encyclopaedia explains ecommerce as "maintaining relationships and conducting business transactions that include selling information, services, and goods by means of computer telecommunications networks". eCommerce accounted for 16.1% of all retail…
September 24th, 2020. Trouw Nutrition, a Eur 3.9b revenue subsidiary of Nutreco, is an animal feed manufacturer and distributor based in Amsterdam. They have announced they have gone live with a new B2B ecommerce solution based on Intershop, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist,…
September 22nd, 2020. Mirakl, the ecommerce marketplace software solution provider, announced they have received an outside investment of $300m from new investor Permira as well its existing private equity owners. The investment has valued the marketplace provider at $1.5bn. Permira is also an investor in…
September 14th, 2020. Dutch cyber-security services firm, Saguine Security ("Sansec"), based in Utrecht, reported that almost 2,000 Magento ecommerce stores were hacked over the weekend between Friday Sep 11th and Monday Sep 14th. The stores were running the, now end of life, version 1 of…
Magento v2 is software used to build and operate ecommerce stores. It is provided in three versions: To illustrate how to calculate the cost of running a Magento ecommerce store, this article describes sites at two levels of revenue, $100,000 and $5,000,000 per year. For…