Global-e the world’s leading platform enabling and accelerating global, direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce, announced today a record 53% increase in sales over Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) weekend from the previous year. YoY increase in sales over the 2023 BFCM weekend was seen across many markets worldwide. Standout markets include: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Italy, France, […]
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A big thanks to all the speakers, sponsors and attendees who joined us at GELF NYC ’23 last month! Please enjoy the video recaps, photos and presentation decks from GELF NYC ’23 – and the podcasts to come this Fall, including this GELF NYC ’23 recap podcast. Our GELF NYC ’23 Special Edition Newsletter is a one-stop […]
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Thanks to the team at Alibaba for sharing a recap of Alibaba’s 14th annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival (“11.11”). Great to see that the results were in line with last year’s GMV performance despite macro challenges and Covid-related impact. This year’s 11.11 featured over 290,000 brands from over 90 countries and regions across 7,000 product […]
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One reason the GELF community loves getting together at GELF events is the opportunity to meet rising solution providers that can help them execute global ecommerce expansion strategies. We’re happy to give the Glopal team a big shoutout for debuting at GELF NYC ’22 on September 29th! Thanks as well to Glopal’s Daniel Porter for […]
Read MoreGlobal direct-to-consumer e-commerce company ESW announced on Monday it has acquired Los Angeles-based e-commerce platform Scalefast, with the deal expected to drive growth in revenue and product innovation across the group’s integrated client base. ESW also announced that Scalefast founders, CEO Nicolas Stehle, CTO Frédéric Bocquet, and CMO Olivier Schott, will join the ESW senior leadership team, as part […]
Read MoreThe deal is worth up to approximately $500 million (in equal portions of cash and Global-e shares). It comprises a base consideration of approximately $425 million and up to approximately $75 million in potential additional consideration based on certain financial results in 2021, plus approximately $45 million in Global-e shares for certain assumed, performance-based vesting […]
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Global-e and Trascosmos are working together to help Japanese merchants optimize their cross-border e-commerce offerings to boost international traffic conversion rates and open up new global ecommerce opportunities. Japanese brands and retailers can now offer international shoppers in over 200 destinations worldwide a seamless localized experience, which includes local messaging, currency, tax and duties calculation, payment […]
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Curious about the origin of the Global Ecommerce Leaders Forum or GELF as we call it? Join Michael LeBlanc, the host of The Voice of Retail and one of the voices behind GELF’s own podcast, Global Ecommerce Tech Talks as he interviews Kent Allen, one of co-founders of GELF. Check out the podcast here Note […]
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