E-commerce on mobile phones – heavy traffic also from smartphones in 2010

Purchases made via smartphones were finally measurable in 2010 and reached 1.5% of all electronic sales in Hungary. Consequently, Hungary is in line with other developed e-commerce markets: shopping habits are gradually changing – reveals GKIeNET – T-Mobile’s Report on the Internet Economy.

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Women are the online shoppers of the future

A growing number of Hungarian online stores are redesigning their image in order to appeal to female shoppers, and current trends indicate that women will make up one-half of all Hungarian online customers by 2012. The number of online shoppers in Hungary totaled nearly 1.1 million over the past year, and the majority of internet [...]

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No crisis in Hungarian e-commerce: New sales record in 2009

In 2010 electronic retail sales in Hungary are expected to continue growing, totaling approximately 130-135 billion forints, compared with 99 billion last year and 61 billion in 2008, a GKIeNET survey reveals. Online sales now account for over 1.6% of all retail sales in Hungary, and this rate keeps increasing exponentially.

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No Crisis So Far in Online Shopping

In the first half of 2009, the number of online retail stores using a shopping cart system exceeded 2,400 in Hungary. With the population of internet users continuing to grow, the number of consumers experimenting with online shopping is also expanding steadily. By the end of 2008 almost 750 thousand people had tried online shopping [...]

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