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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
Connections

Associated With

Alibaba Group Initial Public Offering, Corporate Events
Amazon Initial Public Offering, Corporate Events

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, Business Models
eBay, Products and Services

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

Source Wikipedia, E-commerce
Group buying, Business Models

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

Jack Ma, Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers
Source Jack Ma (Wikipedia)
Jeff Bezos, Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

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

Source Wikipedia, Jeff Bezos
Online auction, Business Models

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

Online marketplace, Business Models

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.

Reverse auction, Business Models

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

Carrefour, Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: Carrefour
Carvana Co., Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: Carvana Co.
Coupang, Inc., Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Coupang
Fanatics, Inc., Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Fanatics, Inc.
GoDaddy Inc., Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: GoDaddy Inc.
Magazine Luiza, Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: Magazine Luiza
Meituan, Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Meituan
MercadoLibre, Inc., Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: MercadoLibre, Inc.
Naspers, Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Naspers
Poshmark, Companies and Brands
Source Wikidata: Poshmark
Sea Limited, Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Sea Ltd
Shein, Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Shein
Shopify Inc., Companies and Brands
Source Wikipedia: Shopify
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
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Wikipedia, Jeff Bezos
WikipediaAssociated With: Jeff BezosView the Source
Jack Ma (Wikipedia)
WikipediaAssociated With: Jack MaView the Source
Wikipedia: Shopify
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Shopify Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Shopify Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Coupang
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Coupang, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Coupang, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Sea Ltd
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Sea Limited, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Sea Limited, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Naspers
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Naspers, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Naspers, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Meituan
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Meituan, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Meituan, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Fanatics, Inc.
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Fanatics, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Fanatics, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikipedia: Shein
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: Shein, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Shein, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity "E-commerce Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: Carrefour
WikidataCompanies In Industry: Carrefour, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Carrefour, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: MercadoLibre, Inc.
WikidataCompanies In Industry: MercadoLibre, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: MercadoLibre, Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: Carvana Co.
WikidataCompanies In Industry: Carvana Co., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Carvana Co., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: GoDaddy Inc.
WikidataCompanies In Industry: GoDaddy Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: GoDaddy Inc., Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: Magazine Luiza
WikidataCompanies In Industry: Magazine Luiza, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Magazine Luiza, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Wikidata: Poshmark
WikidataCompanies In Industry: Poshmark, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
Quote, Companies In Industry: Poshmark, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
industry (P452) target Q484847, matched to the live industry entity by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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Frequently Asked Questions

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.
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