SA e-tailers still smiling after bumper season

Thursday, 18 January 2007 00:00 Written by Bandile Sikwane
THE RECENT holiday season was an exceptionally good one, report South Africa`s online retailers, with sales up by around a third in many cases.

MD says that the entire year saw growth exceeding expectations.

Goldstuck said ahead of his upcoming Online Retail in SA 2007 report that local online retail revenue grew by 30% in 2006, to around R688 million, well above the expected 20% to 25%.

Gillian Meier, bidorbuy`s business manager, says in November and December, the company had an average growth in sales of 33.96%, with just over five million impressions and more than 321 000 unique visitors in December.

, Digital`s Planet MD, says: “October was a record month and November beat October. December is a half month for us, but we still had a record December. Our year-on-year sales growth was just over 100%.”

Netflorist MD says: “We were 34% up on last year`s numbers, with 8 500 orders delivered.” Neil Smith, Take2`s marketing manager, says sales and traffic were up 100% from last year.

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