CONFERENCE : NASSE SEMINAR - ONLINE SALES - DISTRIBUTION - HARD CORE RESTRICTIONS

The new commercial behaviours in online sales field (Nass seminar - Paris, 2nd of July 2013)

During the Nasse Seminar organized the 2nd of July of 2013, Laurence Idot, Patrick Rey talked about the new commercial behaviours in online sales field.

The seminar was animed by Emmanuel Combe, vice president of the Competition authority.

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Introduction by Emmanuel Combe In 2011, e-commerce generated sales of more than €40 billion, or 7% of total retail sales. But this average actually hides strong disparities according to the types of products distributed, with the market share of online sales appearing higher for brown goods (15% of the market) and cultural products (18% of the market), than for food (3% of the market). From the point of view of an established company, the Internet can be seen as a risk factor but also as an opportunity. The first of the risks associated with the Internet is that of falling prices and margins. The fall in prices, linked to the intensification of intra-brand

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