As Amazon and the eCommerce world at large continue to gather speed worldwide, its impact on the lives of online non-Amazon retailers is getting hard to miss. To dissect this change, eCommerce consultants Chris McCabe and Leah McHugh sat down with Moira Weigel, a faculty associate at the Harvard law school and a researcher at […]
In April, Amazon held a ceremony attended by Victoria’s leaders to mark the beginning of putting up a new $ 1.5 billion office in Melbourne. Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sally Capp and Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas were present for the ceremony that marked the precinct’s first stage foundations. December 2020 saw Amazon being named as the […]
While the epidemic continued to make 2020 a stormy sea of global recession, individuals such as Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk saw their wealth soaring higher. And until January this year, Bezos had occupied the number one position for more than three years. According to Forbes, Jeff Bezos is still the world’s richest person, with a […]
Australian consumers’ obsession with online shopping shows no sign of slowing down, and Amazon Australia is taking advantage of this upward trend. Since its launch in December 2017, Amazon.com.au has continued to grow at rates that can only be described as breathtaking. Morningstar Equity Research analysts predict that this e-commerce behemoth will dominate over a […]
For several years now, most retail markets in the world, and Australia is no exception, have been experiencing shortages in logistic capacity. Getting space near population centres can prove to be a headache. Prologis predicts that the next a half a decade may witness a 13 million sq. m. shortage in industrial real estate supply. […]