France can be a challenge for UK retailers. However, high turnover ecommerce and large population make the Grande Nation a foreign market interesting. Those who want to be among the main actors need to know how this can be difficult.
The largest French online Shopping Sites List in France, Europe!
The French company Express Group media published a ranking of the 100 largest online stores in the country. Annual sales of the company for 2011 was the main criteria for inclusion in the list.
If no sales could be established from publicly available sources, investments were made on the basis of estimates of the editorial team.
Here is the top 10:
CDISCOUNT
VENTE PRIVEE.COM
PIXMANIA
GROUPON-CITYDEAL
PROMOVACANCES
VOYAGE-PRIVE.COM
RUEDUCOMMERCE
HI MEDIA
ARAMIS-AUTO
SHOWROOMPRIVE.COM
However, the classification is not completely homogeneous. For example, the list also includes PrestaShop, a French supplier of shop software and Digitas.fr, a marketing agency.
There are also some missing key players such as the Otto Group 3Sussie. Last year, the mail order group achieved a turnover of 1,980 billion euros through all its sales channels. This means that a position among the top 100 online stores should, in all probability, be as realistic. Amazon was also absent from the rankings, La Redoute and Redcats Group. La Redoute is one of the leading apparel retailers by correspondence in France.