Industry

E-commerce Industry

Consumer Discretionary

The industry of commercial activities including the electronic buying and selling of products and services conducted on online platforms or over the internet, now the largest and fastest-growing segment of the retail industry. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts

Sector

Retail and technology 1

E-commerce Industry

6 entries

Origin Era

Companies Using This Model

FAQs

What are the main categories of e-commerce?

E-commerce is commonly sorted by who is on each side of the deal, giving categories such as business-to-business, business to consumer, consumer-to-business and consumer to consumer.

Sources on e-commerce commonly sort it by who is on each side of the transaction rather than by what is sold. The Wikipedia article on e-commerce, in its Defining e-commerce section, lists the categories as business-to-business, business to consumer retail, business to government, consumer-to-business, consumer to consumer and direct-to-consumer, each describing a different pairing of buyer and seller.

Connections

Associated With

Alibaba Group Initial Public Offering

Amazon Initial Public Offering

Amazon's 1997 IPO funded the growth of one of the e-commerce industry's defining companies from an online bookseller into a broad retail platform.

Source Wikipedia, E-commerce

Disintermediation

eBay

eBay's online auction and marketplace platform was one of the earliest and most influential e-commerce businesses.

Source Wikipedia, E-commerce

Group buying

Group buying, offering discounts once enough buyers commit, is an e-commerce industry model popularized by daily-deal sites.

Jack Ma

Source Jack Ma (Wikipedia)

Jeff Bezos

Bezos founded Amazon and built it into the dominant global e-commerce retailer.

Source Wikipedia, Jeff Bezos

Online auction

Online auctions, where buyers bid competitively on listed items over the internet, are a foundational e-commerce industry format.

Online marketplace

An online marketplace is defined in its own description as an e-commerce business model, letting third-party sellers list goods on a shared platform rather than each running its own store.

Platform economy

Source Wikipedia, Platform Economy

Reverse auction

Reverse auctions, where sellers compete by bidding prices down for a buyer's business, are widely used in e-commerce and procurement platforms.

Companies In Industry

Adyen

Source Adyen (Wikipedia)

Alibaba Group

Source Wikidata: Alibaba Group

Allegro

Source Allegro (Wikipedia)

CAR Group

Source CAR Group (Wikipedia)

Carrefour

Source Wikidata: Carrefour

Carvana Co.

Source Wikidata: Carvana Co.

Coupang, Inc.

Source Wikipedia: Coupang

DeNA

Source Wikipedia, DeNA

eBay Inc.

Source Wikidata: eBay Inc.

Eternal Limited

Source Eternal Limited (Wikipedia)

Fanatics, Inc.

Source Wikipedia: Fanatics, Inc.

Flipkart Internet Private Limited

Source Flipkart (Wikipedia)

GoDaddy Inc.

Source Wikidata: GoDaddy Inc.

Grab Holdings Limited

Source Grab Holdings (Wikipedia)

JD.com, Inc.

Source Wikidata: JD.com, Inc.

Magazine Luiza

Source Wikidata: Magazine Luiza

Meituan

Source Wikipedia: Meituan

MercadoLibre, Inc.

Source Wikidata: MercadoLibre, Inc.

Naspers

Source Wikipedia: Naspers

Poshmark

Source Wikidata: Poshmark

Sea Limited

Source Wikipedia: Sea Ltd

Shein

Source Wikipedia: Shein

Shopify Inc.

Source Wikipedia: Shopify

The RealReal, Inc.

Source Wikipedia, The RealReal

In Sector

Consumer Discretionary

Additional Source Wikipedia: Global Industry Classification StandardGICS: Broadline Retail

Sources

1. Wikipedia, E-commerce

Wikipedia

Lead section
E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet.
Associated With: Amazon Initial Public Offering
Associated With: eBay