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Explore exclusive insights into Nordic e-commerce trends sourced from various reports and gain a understanding of the evolving preferences, behaviors, and market trends driving digital retail in the Nordic region.

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    E-commerce

    Swedish E-commerce Shows Signs of Resurgence Amidst Global Challenges

    The E-barometer presents e-commerce trends for the second quarter, based on data from Swedish e-retailers and analysis across eight sectors. This edition focuses on the consumer journey, covering payments, deliveries, and returns.

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    Shipping Guides

    How to Choose the Best International Shipping Companies for Your E-commerce Business

    Selecting the right international shipping carrier is a crucial step for ensuring that your global customers receive their orders quickly and reliably. For e-commerce businesses, finding a carrier that balances delivery speed, cost, and exceptional service is key to customer satisfaction.

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    Exporting to the Nordics: A Strategic Guide for International E-Commerce Businesses

    Expanding your e-commerce business into the Nordic region—comprising Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland—offers significant opportunities due to its high digital adoption, tech-savvy population, and strong purchasing power. This strategic guide will help you in managing the complexities of exporting to the Nordics, optimize your logistics, and effectively reach Nordic consumers.

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    Shipping Guides

    PostNord’s Shipping APIs: Optimizing Your E-Commerce Logistics

    PostNord provides a complete set of APIs designed to automate, optimize, and enhance your shipping processes. Each API is built to simplify logistics, offer flexible delivery options, and improve customer experience, making them essential tools for scaling your e-commerce business.

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    Innovation

    Top 7 innovation trends shaping smart logistics in the Nordics

    The Nordic region is rapidly transforming the logistics industry through smart logistics innovations, focusing on sustainability, cutting-edge technologies, and digitalization. As the logistics sector evolves, these trends are reshaping how goods are transported and delivered, creating more efficient and sustainable systems.

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    E-commerce

    PostNord E-barometer – modest growth in Sweden the first quarter of the year

    While better times may be ahead, this is not yet fully reflected in e-commerce. Growth for the quarter is admittedly positive, but only amounts to a modest one percent. 

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    E-commerce

    E-commerce in the Nordics 2024

    The latest E-commerce in the Nordics report reveals that Nordic consumers embrace the convenience and accessibility of online shopping from various countries worldwide. 

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    E-commerce

    E-barometer 2023 reports negative growth

    In the second occurrence of negative growth in E-barometer history, e-commerce experienced a slight decline, with a full-year development landing at minus 2% in 2023. While brighter than the 2022 decline of 7%, it still indicates a challenging year for online commerce.

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    Fashion

    Clothes and shoes stay stylish all year round

    The online clothing and footwear industry remains resilient, thriving throughout 2023.

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    E-commerce

    E-tailers fulfill consumer expectations

    In 2023, it became evident that consumers have diverse preferences for delivery methods. These varying preferences set expectations for e-tailers to provide a broad range of delivery options, which significantly impacts consumers' purchasing choices.

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    E-commerce

    Over a third of the purchases made during Black Week were earmarked for Christmas gifts

    The most recent E-barometer conducted an extensive examination of both Black Week and the Christmas retail landscape. The report highlighted promising outlooks for online shopping leading up to the holiday season. Post-Black Week analysis revealed 34 percent of sales during the event were attributed to purchases intended as Christmas gifts.

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    E-commerce

    Unlocking eCommerce success

    How PostNord delivers transparent pricing and efficient invoicing for your parcels to the Nordics.
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    Pharmacy goods

    The pharmaceutical sector is the strongest industry online in 2022

    Among negative development figures, there is one industry that has stood strong – the pharmacy industry grew by 10 percent in 2022.

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    Furniture and interior design

    The global situation leaves its mark on the furniture and interior design industry

    The furniture and interior design industry is one of the industries that faces high comparative figures after having performed strongly during the pandemic.

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    Sports and leisure

    The sports sector faces high comparative figures

    2022 has been a tough year for the sports trade. As in many other sub-sectors, rising inflation and interest rates, war and the state of the economy have left their mark.

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    Books and media

    Audiobook services and physical booksellers challenge

    The year 2021 was a record year for the printed book in both physical and e-commerce. However, 2022 has not looked as positive for the industry.

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