eCommerce Industry News ⁽⁶⁶⁾

September 9th, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced that Benefit Cosmetics relaunched their ecommerce stores globally on its Episerver Commerce Cloud platform. Benefit operates 42 country websites with language variations available in some of these. While not every country is…

September 3rd, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced its acquisition of Optimizely subject to the normal regulatory approvals expected by end of 2020. Optimizely is an A/B testing company, its software enables ecommerce companies to test the effectiveness of variations…

September 1st, 2020. Sitecore has appointed Steve Tzikakis as its new CEO, following the departure of Mark Frost into an advisory role. Tzikakis was previously SAP President EMEA South and prior to that a VP with ERP vendor Infor. He will be based in the…

August 25th, 2020. BigCommerce, the popular ecommerce platform, announced they have released a Facebook Commerce Manager integration which enables merchants to enable ecommerce sales directly on Instagram. This feature is now available to all merchants from the BigCommerce administration portal.

August 19th, 2020. Elastic Path, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has appointed Jamus Driscoll, CEO of its January 2020 acquisition, Moltin, since 2018, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Harry Chemko, the founder and former Elastic Path CEO since 2000 will now adopt…

August 12th, 2020. Kibo Commerce, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, has announced a new customer win, City Furniture, a Florida-based retailer with 21 showrooms, for its headless ecommerce platform. There is no news on when the expected new website will be going live.

August 5th, 2020. Episerver, a member of our ecommerce platform shortlist, announced that Toppers Pizza (80 stores in 15 states) has gone live with a new digital presence, including ecommerce-enabled website and bespoke cloud-based point-of-sale (POS). The new system provides a single administration panel to update…

July 30th, 2020. Digital River has announced a new integration with Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud. Salesforce calls these standard integrations a "LINK Cartridge". For Digital River, their integration allows a merchant using the Salesforce B2C Commerce Cloud ecommerce platform for international transactions to outsource local…