GELF LA ’22 lives on! Thanks again to all the speakers, sponsors and attendees at GELF LA 2022 – it was great to get the West Coast community again after way too long apart. One of the best ever GELF LA VIP Dinners set the tone; in fact it was so successful that two of […]
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Alibaba successfully concluded its 13th annual 11.11 Global Shopping Festival (“11.11”), which generated RMB540.3 billion (US$84.54 billion) in gross merchandise volume (GMV) during the 11-day campaign. “This 11.11 Global Shopping Festival delivered steady and quality growth; a reflection of the dynamic Chinese consumption economy. We also leveraged the power of 11.11 as a platform to […]
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Thanks to host Chris Parson at Delivering Ecommerce for featuring GELF in this interview with GELF Co-founder Kent Allen. If you’re curious about the early days on ecommerce – and the origins of the Global Ecommerce Leaders Forum (GELF) – have a listen about GELF’s founding in a dark whiskey bar in Tribeca in 2014 […]
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>>IMPORTANT<< To avoid registering separately to access each Accelerate session, please follow the two steps below: Go to the Series Registration page and register, then Come back to this page on the same device and you’ll be able to click on each session to watch them without registering separately for each one GELF […]
Read MoreFeb 2nd Fireside Chat with Burton Snowboards @ The Delivery Conference (UK): What Top U.S. Retailers are Doing to Deliver Shoppers a Spot-on Post-Order Experience In 2020, global retail leaders faced many operational challenges as the pandemic drove unprecedented ecommerce order volume. Perhaps none bigger than the logistics of delivering orders placed online. Check out […]
Read More>>IMPORTANT<< To avoid registering separately to access each Oktoberfest session, please follow the two steps below: Go to the Series Registration page and register, then Come back to this page on the same device and you’ll be able to click on each session to watch them without registering separately for each one Oktoberfest […]
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This spring the Global Ecommerce Leaders Forum (GELF) has launched GELF’s TechTalks, a series of programming that includes podcasts and webcasts/webinars. Check out our podcast – Global E-Commerce Tech Talks (GETT). If you’re a global ecommerce leader at a direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail brand, don’t be shy about reaching out and getting involved with TechTalks! Email us at speak@globalecommerce.co
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At recent GELF events, we’ve detailed why we consider China the “Headwaters of Digital Retail Innovation.” As the world grapples with the immediate impacts of COVID-19, what can be learned from China’s ecommerce leaders as China’s shoppers come back online? In late March, GELF spoke with leaders at Sunrise Cross-Border Services, GELF’s China-based research partner […]
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A market that really matters requires more than one major player. No surprise then that China 2.0 ecommerce strategies now expand beyond Alibaba and Tmall to include JD.com, WeChat, and retail brands’ own D2C sites. Single’s Day Boom Underscores Success of China 2.0 Ecommerce Strategies Alibaba’s $25 Billion sales record on Single’s Day is an […]
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Great article by Internet Retailer about how US retail brands got ready for Singles Day this year. Why all the fuss about Singles’s Day? According to IR, sales on Nov. 11 last year hit $17.8 billion for Alibaba’s online marketplace Tmall. That’s more than two and a half times the sales for U.S. retailers on Black […]
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