E-commerce turnover is expected to triple to a total of 15 billion euros in 2020, helped by the pandemic crisis, but this growth is not equally distributed, according to a survey by the the Institute for Small- and Medium-Sized enterprises of the Hellenic Confederation of Commerce and Entrepreneurship released on Monday.
The survey, conducted on the occasion of the Black Friday, states: “Undoubtedly, large retail players have been mostly favoured by the impressive increase in e-commerce. On the other hand, smaller enterprises record a significant gap in comparison with larger enterprises, however they manage to find ways to respond to this challenge.”
More than 70 per cent of smaller enteprises have Internet access, a 36 per cent have an active web page and more than 55 per cent an active page on social media, the survey said. The survey was conducted on a sample of 500 enterprises in the retail commerce in the period 16-25 November.
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The survey showed that a 70 per cent of enterprises were more willing to invest on digital transformation because of the lockdown, a 59 per cent reported an increase in sales in comparison with the previous year, while the majority of them recorded a slightly increase. A 74 per cent of stores reported an increase in the number of visitors on their websites, with only 11 per cent of them reporting a strong growth. A 43 per cent of enterprises have made marketing moves on Facebook or other sites.
A 79 per cent of enterprises did not participate in the Black Friday event. From those that did, a 49 per cent used social media and the corporate website (31 per cent), while others used newsletters (20 per cent) and SMS (17 per cent).