The Russian cross-border market is led by a variety of offer aggregators that provide contrasting services, although occasionally with some overlaps, with the most notable players profiled in EWDN’s study.
In mid-2014, AliExpress stood as Russia’s most visited e-commerce site and one of the country’s top 10 most visited websites. Over the January 2013-July 2014 period, the retailer’s Russian audience had increased five-fold. AliExpress thus overran eBay in terms of traffic.
This year, East-West Digital News has teamed up with Data Insight and Enter Vision, two leading Russian e-commerce data providers, to provide Russia’s first reliable ranking of e-commerce companies. The information is based on companies’ official data and – whenever company data was not disclosed or judged inaccurate – the combined expert assessments of Data Insight, East-West Digital …