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Full Service eCommerce
in Asia Pacific Localized front end, payments,
order & store management
Logistics
Centers 15 3 Call
Centers 8 Languages
& Dialects
S$3.5 billion market cap
600+ eCommerce clients
Country Insights 81% of Chinese consumers do NOT visit
international monobrand websites due to a lack of localized content
China
Information on official brand websites influence
39% of the consumer
purchasing decisions for jeans
45% of online shoppers
shop with e-Commerce retailers that have local distribution centers
25% of online consumers
in China are searching for exclusive products not readily available
Key = Deep Localization
South Korea
Malaysia
India
Thailand
Philippines
Indonesia
Vietnam
China
Japan
Taiwan
USA
Singapore
New Zealand
Australia Other regulatory challenges…
• Foreign ownership restrictions
• Requirement to setup legal entities to trade in local currency and obtain domain
• Uneven application of rules
• Complex rules (e.g. import approvals for many commodities like books, etc)
• Valuation concerns (especially for highly discounted merchandise)
Very low “de minimis” threshold compared to other countries
Customs & Regulations
India Country Insights
COD is more popular than
credit and debit cards
45% of goods ordered
online are rejected at the point of delivery
Population: 23M
89% Internet Penetration
US$3,547 Annual Average eCommerce Spend
Australia
Population: 241M
21% Internet Penetration
US$334
Annual Average eCommerce Spend
Indonesia
10x Higher
10x Lower
4x Lower
Indonesia First?
Source: Forrester Research
Singapore is the only SE Asia country in the global top 16
Global
eCommerce
Readiness Score
Population: 23M
89% Internet Penetration
US$3,547 Annual Average eCommerce Spend
Australia
Population: 29M
62.3% Internet Penetration
US$815
Annual Average eCommerce Spend
Malaysia
Malaysia First?
Malaysia Country Insights
Key complaints about international websites: • lack of product availability (65%) • poor variety (55%)
45% prefer to shop
from local websites
Malaysians shop 12x more than they usually do during festive seasons, and conduct 50% of their holiday shopping online
User reviews influence 68% of their purchase decisions
The best-performing one, Westwing, based in
Germany and selling home furnishings, made a loss (before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation)
that was equivalent to 35% of revenues last year.
By the same measure, losses at Jumia, an all-purpose online retailer based in Nigeria, were 16% bigger than its sales.
4 Oct 2014
Go Niche…
Niche construction is the process in
which an organism alters its environment, often in a manner that
increases its chances of survival
Pros Cons
Implement local
payment solutions
Increases conversion
70%
High cost from
offering multiple
local credit card
solutions
Engage bloggers to
write user reviews
Increases conversion
68%
More expensive
marketing tool
compared to user
reviews
Malaysia Recommendations