8 Largest E-Commerce Companies in the World

Largest E-Commerce Companies in the World

Business has long ago moved from offline world to e-commerce, many of us have either heard of or used services of this following companies. Now, one might think that they know all the companies listed, but there are many more e-commerce companies whose net worth is measured in billions. These companies are not all Western and no, Alibaba is not the only Chinese success story.

What is E-Commerce?

The broadest definition of E-commerce is any transaction of goods and services done over the internet. More colloquially, it refers to buying an item or online service with an electronic payment method, such as a credit or debit card or a digital wallet service. The item could be physical, digital (an mp3 download), or a service (music streaming subscription).

When talking about E-commerce companies, there's a wide range of businesses involved in making online stores work. Payment networks and digital wallet services assure payment processing. Shipping and logistics companies make sure packages are delivered and online stores or shops connect buyers and sellers.

In this article, we're focusing primarily on online stores. But those stores may operate in any one of the various flavors of e-commerce:

1. Amazon

Amazon.Inc founded in 1994 in Seattle by now immortal Jeff Bezos, Amazon has in the years since become a homely name when it comes to online shopping. This Online company today has the largest revenue in the world, but its Opening was humble. It was initially not more than an online bookshop. Then Amazon was diversifying the scope of products it sold online in the following years. Who says selling books aren’t profitable!

2. Jingdong
This e-commerce company operating from Beijing, China is the first of three major Chinese companies we list here. Rivaled by the most popular Alibaba, Jingdong has successfully over a quarter of a billion registered users as of 2018. It was founded in the year 1998 and started trading online after six years. Now, the company brandishes its high tech delivery system, comprised of robots, artificial intelligence, and a fleet of drones.

Now, if we measure market capitalization, Jingdong.com is significantly smaller than Alibaba. However, if we benchmark it by the revenue last year, Jingdong had over $15B more. If we are comparing a number of employees or workers, Jingdong has over 137.000 while Alibaba currently has a little over 65.000.

3. Alibaba

Fewer people haven’t heard of Jack Ma’s success story. The Chinese business magnate’s life is a kinda riches-to-rags story. Having been rejected from more than 30 jobs in the early 1990s, he decided to start making websites for companies with his wife and a friend. The business grew up exponentially and in the year 1999, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd was founded. It is the world’s largest retailer of present-day, operating in more than 200 countries.

4. eBay Inc.
eBay started as an online auction house in the 90s for the public to sell collectibles and used goods to one another. Now, 80% of items sold on the platform are new, and 90% of items are sold at a fixed price.

eBay is taking steps to build its platform look and operate more like Amazon. It is encouraging sellers to offer free guaranteed 3-4 day shipping. It is combining product listings from sellers with the same item, enabling customers to find the best price much more easily. It also launched a Best Price Guarantee, offering consumers a 110% rebate on the difference between an item they bought on eBay and an identical listing on a competitors website. eBay is operating like a business-to-consumer retailer instead of a marketplace for other businesses.

5. Rakuten, Inc.

Rakuten started with 6 employees and 13 merchants initially, and by 2002, It has extended its merchants base to 6000. In order to achieve more consumers relationships, it started two services namely “pay as you go programme” and also ”Rakuten super points”, which helped the company to win the trust of partners & help their business grown-up rapidly.

Rakuten’s key driving force is mainly innovation. In 2004, It joined the Japanese baseball which is its first sports segment entry.

It finally enlisted into the e-book segment during 2012 by acquiring KOBO in Japan. Its expanse is a market place model for all the Rakuten-commerce business in the world. The mission of the company’s market place is to provide an outstanding shopping experience.

It offers a broad range of products to purchase. To the customers, Rakuten.com is meant not just for a good transactional experience. Its focus is more on providing satisfaction to the customers. They encourage merchants to share excellent ideas and connect with shoppers with good quality products, reviews, and content to ensure long-lasting relationships with consumers. Each transaction on Rakuten is totally protected and one’s information is protected by using limited access servers and protected passwords.

6. B2W Companhia Digital

This Brazilian based online retail company(B2W) is the largest of its kind in Latin America. B2W Companhia Digital occupy a market share of 50%. It was established in 2006 and is highly competitive, owning numerous shopping sites. B2W has latterly announced a move into the U.S market.

7. Zalando

This the first European company we list. Zalando’s Headquarter is in Berlin, it is a well-known fashion shopping portal, which has become one of the largest online shopping portals nowadays.

The company operates in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Norway and the U.K, which shows its immense global presence. The company has extended its portfolio by introducing Zalando Lounge in 2010.

Zalando Lounge is especially for its registered consumers. These consumers receive all the e-mails regarding the discounted offers available from time to time. Their top brands include Diesel, Joop, Lacoste, Liebeskind, The North Face, Olymp etc. Since they connect with the top brand manufacturers the goods provided by them are 100% authentic.

8. Groupon

The company was build in 2008 by Andrew Mason and has become the leading e-commerce brands worldwide.

Groupon mainly aims at connecting people together in order to reach a certain goal and its first deal was with a Motel bar. After that, the business started to take a fast move by the spread of the word, and the name was expanded almost to 28 countries, which shows the effective global presence on Groupon.

It started entering the international markets like Belgium, U.K, Germany, France, and Spain etc. It is the main marketing strategy is involved in creating campaigns that are different and entertained the consumers. Groupon delivers a marketplace in out of Chicago that connects millions of subscribers with its local merchants by delivering services like travel, goods, and services in more than 28 countries. In order to capture international operations, they targeted the companies that brought them the best deals by purchasing the goods and services in the related geographies.

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