Back in 2019, even before COVID-19 took the world by surprise, Asia was already accounting for more than 57% of global e-commerce sales. This year, the region is expected to generate over US$1.6 trillion in revenue.
“Asia is going to continue to grow,” Vaughan Ryan, NielsenIQ’s managing director of e-commerce for Asia Pacific, said at the recent eTail Asia Virtual Summit. “The growth will be slow as it starts to become a dominant player in retail but it is still going to be rather large."
Research from NielsenIQ – a recent rebrand of Nielsen's global consumer business – is seeing...