Market Report, "Online Retail: Global Industry Guide", published

Sept. 2, 2010 - PRLog -- Datamonitor's Online Retail: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Online Retail industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
* Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
* Covers the Global, European and Asia-Pacific markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US).
* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global online retail sector grew by 14.5% in 2009 to reach a value of $348.6 billion.

In 2014, the global online retail sector is forecast to have a value of $778.6 billion, an increase of 123.3% since 2009.

Electronics is the largest segment of the global online retail sector, accounting for 22.6% of the sector's total value.

Americas accounts for 45.7% of the global online retail sector value.

The large number of competitors operating within the sector, combined with the absence of consumer switching costs, increases rivalry. However, a high level of product differentiation together with low fixed costs and dynamic market revenue growth observed in recent years tends to alleviate rivalry to an extent.

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Market Definition

The online retail market consists of the total revenues generated through the sale of retail goods via online channels, valued at retail selling price. The market values exclude travel and ticket bookings, online corporate purchasing, and online auction transactions. All currency conversions are calculated using constant 2009 annual average exchange rates.

Partial Table of Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2
INTRODUCTION 13
What is this report about? 13
Who is the target reader? 13
Market definition 13
GLOBAL ONLINE RETAIL 14
MARKET OVERVIEW 14
MARKET VALUE 15
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 16
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 17
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 18
MARKET FORECASTS 24
MARKET FORECASTS 24
ONLINE RETAIL IN ASIAPACIFIC 26
MARKET OVERVIEW 26
MARKET VALUE 27
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 28
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 29
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 30
MARKET FORECASTS 36
ONLINE RETAIL IN EUROPE 38
MARKET OVERVIEW 38
MARKET VALUE 39
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 40
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 41
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 42
MARKET FORECASTS 48
ONLINE RETAIL IN FRANCE 50
MARKET OVERVIEW 50
MARKET VALUE 51
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 52
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 53
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 54
MARKET FORECASTS 60
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 61
ONLINE RETAIL IN GERMANY 63
MARKET OVERVIEW 63
MARKET VALUE 64
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 65
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 66
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 67
MARKET FORECASTS 74
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 75
ONLINE RETAIL IN JAPAN 77
MARKET OVERVIEW 77
MARKET VALUE 78
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 79
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 80
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 81
MARKET FORECASTS 87
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 88
ONLINE RETAIL IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 91
MARKET OVERVIEW 91
MARKET VALUE 92
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 93
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 94
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 95
MARKET FORECASTS 101
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 102
ONLINE RETAIL IN THE UNITED STATES 105
MARKET OVERVIEW 105
MARKET VALUE 106
MARKET SEGMENTATION I 107
MARKET SEGMENTATION II 108
FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 109
MARKET FORECASTS 115
MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS 116
COMPANY PROFILES 118
LEADING COMPANIES 118
Amazon.com, Inc. 118
Carrefour S.A. 123
Costco Wholesale Corporation 128
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 133
APPENDIX 138
Data Research Methodology 138
About Datamonitor 139
Disclaimer 139

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Global online retail sector value: $ billion, 2005-09 15
Table 2: Global online retail sector segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 16
Table 3: Global online retail sector segmentation II: % share, by value, 2009 17
Table 4: Global online retail sector value forecast: $ billion, 2009-14 24
Table 5: Asia-Pacific online retail sector value: $ billion, 2005-09 27
Table 6: Asia-Pacific online retail sector segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 28
Table 7: Asia-Pacific online retail sector segmentation II: % share, by value, 2009 29
Table 8: Asia-Pacific online retail sector value forecast: $ billion, 2009-14 36
Table 9: Europe online retail sector value: $ billion, 2005-09 39
Table 10: Europe online retail sector segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 40
Table 11: Europe online retail sector segmentation II: % share, by value, 2009 41
Table 12: Europe online retail sector value forecast: $ billion, 2009-14 48
Table 13: France online retail sector value: $ billion, 2005-09 51
Table 14: France online retail sector segmentation I:% share, by value, 2009 52
Table 15: France online retail sector segmentation II: % share, by value, 2009 53

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