Czech E-commerce: Past, Present and Future

Jan SvobodaCEO

Jiří Hlavenkaenterpreneur

Lenka Stašová Head of

Poland branch

Czech e-commerce: past, present and future

Agenda1) History and recent developments, major

players and their moves.2) Is 10 000 e-shops enough for a small

country? What´s selling, who´s selling, who´s buying

3) A picture of a Czech e-commerce customer.

4) Future years: growth or quick maturation?

5) What´s behind the scenes: software solutions, leaders, technology for the near future.

An early start...

• First e-shops: just five months after Amazon.com launch (1995)

• Year 2000: hundreds of e-shops, revenue totalling approx 100 mil. EUR

• First leaders were unsuccessful; the new leading segment emerged: electronics, PCs, kitchen and home appliances

• Auctions: no success until Aukro/Allegro came, even then the growth was slow at the start

Who are today´s leaders?

• Alza.cz (computers, digital electronics): 200 mil. EUR

• Obchodni-dum.cz and Kasa.cz (one owner now, home appliances, digital electronics): 130 mil. EUR

• Mall.cz (wide assortment, also in Poland): 100 mil. EUR

• CzechComputer.cz and Mironet.cz (both computers): 40 mil. EUR each

• Vivantis.cz (health, perfume, wide assortment): 35 mil. EUR

• Parfums.cz (successful in Poland): 15 mil. EUR• Aukro.cz: approx. 100 mil. EUR• Total market: 1,2 bln. EUR

What sells well and what doesn‘ t?

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First wave: books, music, videoSecond wave: PC and home appliancesThird wave: apparel, perfume,

hobbies, auctions etc.Fourth wave? FMCG?

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Prices, margins, competition, marketing

• Internet means discount. That´s the rule.• Computers, digital electronics and home

appliances: ridicuously low margins (2-5%), customers extremely price sensitive

• Other goods: more normal margins (20%), a lot of competitors

• Market niches: still a lot of space, low competition• Currently approx. 11 000 running e-shops

(+Aukro.cz), every year brings up 1 000 new e-shops.

• Marketing effort: only „big5“ make real-world campaigns. The rest rely on SEO/PPC visibility, price comparison engines (Zbozi.cz, Heureka.cz).

Local specifics: every country has some

• Local portal Seznam (4.7 mio RU/mo, 2.1 mio RU/day) beats Google in search 60:40. Google market share slowly grows.

• Seznam.cz owns the key price comparison service Zbozi.cz (1,5 mio RU/mo, 140 th RU/day). Second is Heureka.cz (co-owned by Aukro; sophisticated engine), half of Zbozi.cz

• Auctions make some 10% of total volume of local ecommerce

• 70+% of payments are cash-on delivery; distrust of credit/debit cards (5%), in-store pickup is very popular (20%), online payments are close to zero.

• Shipping and delivery: Česká pošta (state enterprise) 80%, PPL (=Deutsche Post) 9%, DPD (French) 9%

• Speed of delivery and reliability is very important.

A portrait of typical Czech customer:Seasonability: Christmas is not the killer season

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A portrait of typical Czech customer:Price versus brand loyalty

66%: First I will find what to buy, then I go to the e-shops to compare offers27%: I go straight to the trusted e-shop and search there5%: My shopping decision is based on recommendations of friends1%: Based on advertising1%: Other reason

A portrait of typical Czech customer:Who ships – and how´s the delivery?

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A portrait of typical Czech customer:Why do you buy on the Internet?

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A picture of typical Czech customer:How do you pay?

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A picture of typical Czech customer: Shopping while at work (is our sport)

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A portrait of typical Czech customer: Average order size (in EUR)

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E-shop systems for small companies

- the Czech market

• The Czech Republic and e-shops producers:

• General information • Technology and quality differences• Open Source platforms don´t gain strong positions• Customers and e-commerce

• Czech e-shops solutions: inShop, ShopSys, ShopTet, OXID eShop, Ready2Go, FastCentrik and others…

FastCentrik - CASE STUDY Low-cost shopping cart

software offered through rental payments. Ready within 24 hours, amazing functionality, custom graphics, free updates and excellent support.

2008

• NetDirect is market leader in e-shops for medium and large sized companies in the Czech Republic

• September – talk about crises begins• Desicion to create e-shops for smaller companies by the end of the year• December – FastCentrik is introduced to the market

2009• Product becomes very popular in Czech and Slovak Republics• Turnover increases from 48 mil to 61 mil largely due to FastCetnrik

2010• E-shop already ordered by nearly 1000 customers and rate of sales continues to

grow• English and Polish versions launched, company prepares for entrance into other

markets

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FastCentrik – REASONS FOR SUCCESS

• Identification of target market segment and its needs• Market survey showed that some competitors are selling products priced from 100 CZK / month

Conclusion

• Our product must be superior – 100 CZK / month (15 Zł) is not profitable

Strategy

• Enter the market with a higher price but overwhelmingly higher quality and service

Results

• Price 2290 CZK / month (352 zł)• Free of charge – updates, training, manual, video-manuals, books, top quality

support, phone lines and chat, connections to financial systems

Fair and friendly communication, the key factor in customers’ motivation to buy this product and stick with it

goal

FastCentrik – CONCLUSION

We established ourselves in a market in which we had zero share and where the existing competition provided lower cost products.

We managed to convince the market that high quality software and support services were worth paying more for.

For more information go to www.NetDirect.pl or www.FastCentrik.pl.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your attention. If you have any questions, we'd be happy to answer them now.