{"id":3191,"date":"2013-05-31T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T13:07:33","slug":"the-nominees-for-the-european-cross-border-awards-have-been-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/the-nominees-for-the-european-cross-border-awards-have-been-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The nominees for the European Cross Border Awards have been announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Internet knows no boundaries and web stores should not have them either in the scope of a unified Europe. Even so, it is not easy to sell outside of one\u2019s own national borders. The Cross-Border Awards intend to remedy this.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On the European Day, which is organized by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs in The Hague, Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission, emphasized once again the enormous opportunities the Internet offers to entrepreneurs. The digital economy is an open market that does not end at a country\u2019s borders. The US has become the leader in the field of e-commerce, with giants like Google, Apple and Facebook. With its own framework, Europe can follow that lead. But a necessary prerequisite is that more work is put into the harmonisation of markets, laws, regulations and policy.<\/p>\n

In order to encourage web stores to also do business across the borders, several initiatives have recently been launched. Firstly, for the second year in a row, the Cross Border Awards<\/a> are being awarded to the best web stores with cross-border activity. The eligibility conditions are as follows: the company must be based in Europe and deploy trading activities with at least three countries; the web store has to be available in the language of the country where it operates and a maximum of 75 % of the profits can originate from the \u201chome country\u201d.<\/p>\n

A shortlist has now been communicated of the 10 nominees for these awards. The best 5 of those will be invited to the Global E-Commerce Summit<\/a> in early June in Barcelona, where the Gold, Silver and Bronze Awards will be handed out. These nominees are (in random order): ASOS, H&M, Zara, Fab, Zalando, Lego, Vente-priv\u00e9e, Mango, Amazon and Sarenza. By the way, the Awards for 2012 were won by Zalando (Gold), ASOS (Silver) and H&M (Bronze).<\/p>\n

A second initiative to encourage cross-border commerce is the launch of an online cross-border webshop register<\/a>. By signing up, web stores increase their exposure to European users, but also to stakeholders and politicians. Registration is free of charge and entitles you to a free copy of the Ecommerce Europe Facts, Figures & Trends Report 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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