The Netherlands has greater than 100,000 on-line shops. This determine comes from the most recent quarterly report from Statistics Netherlands. At the very least this variety of firms have on-line gross sales as their principal exercise, however the quantity is rising. The quantity of on-line shops with a broad product vary elevated 14 % final 12 months.
In response to the most recent quarterly figures from Statistics Netherlands printed in October, there are 99,990 firms registered within the class ‘on-line retail’. The precise variety of on-line shops is larger, however that is the quantity of firms that see the web retailer as their principal exercise.
Three months earlier, within the quarterly replace from July, the statistics company counted 97,905 firms in the identical class. This can be a distinction of two,085. That signifies that since this summer season, round 700 new on-line shops have been began each month within the Netherlands.
Greater than doubled in 5 years
The quantity of firms which have on-line gross sales as their principal exercise has greater than doubled in comparison with 5 years in the past; on the finish of 2019, Statistics Netherlands counted 46,430 firms within the class. For the reason that starting of final 12 months, the nation has extra on-line shops than brick-and-mortar shops.
Nevertheless, curiously, whole spending in recent times didn’t develop together with the variety of companies. On-line ecommerce gross sales elevated by 1 %, in accordance with the most recent Market Monitor by ecommerce affiliation Thuiswinkel.org. In brief, individuals spent the identical amount of cash on merchandise whereas the quantity of on-line shops did improve.
Variety of on-line outlets retains rising
In the course of the corona period, when on-line spending elevated dramatically, the variety of on-line shops grew quickly, with 2021 being the report 12 months. Nevertheless, the expansion charge slowed down after the pandemic. Nonetheless, new ecommerce firms did preserve coming in. To be precise, the distinction between now and 5 years in the past is 115 %.
The quantity of firms elevated 115% in 5 years
Of their report, Statistics Netherlands counts firms working underneath SBI code 4791, or firms that primarily promote merchandise over distance. This contains mail order firms and teleshopping suppliers, however their quantity is so low that Statistics Netherlands merely refers to all firms as ‘on-line shops’.
Distinction with depend in Chamber of Commerce
The Dutch Chamber of Commerce has its personal depend of companies within the nation. Presently, it counts 109,323 firms within the web retailing class. An necessary distinction is that Statistics Netherlands classifies firms by principal exercise or trade (the SBI classification), whereas the Chamber of Commerce contains each principal and secondary branches of an organization within the Commerce Register.
“We bundle Chamber of Commerce registrations, i.e. authorized entities, into firms primarily based on management relationships,” a CBS spokesperson clarified when requested. “So an organization in accordance with Statistics Netherlands is a tree construction of Chamber of Commerce registrations.” For the report.
Product classes
In response to Statistics Netherlands, final month there have been 22,985 on-line shops promoting clothes, or 23 % of the whole variety of companies. This makes clothes the preferred class, adopted by on-line outlets promoting a normal assortment (20,325 firms, or 20.3 %) and on-line shops promoting house and backyard objects (18,250, or 18.3 %).
Clothes is the preferred on-line product class
This 12 months, the variety of on-line outlets with a normal assortment grew probably the most in each absolute and relative phrases. Certainly, 2,465 entrepreneurs have been added for the reason that measurement within the first quarter. This is a rise of 14 %.
