During the first three quarters of 2017, 15.7 billion euros were spent online in The Netherlands. The volume of e-commerce business during the last quarter of the year is estimated to have a value of 7 billion euros, which means that e-commerce in the Netherlands will have an estimated value of 22.7 billion euros in total for the year 2017 .
This is based on the information provided by the Dutch e-commerce association “Thuisiwinkel.org”. The estimated 22.4 billion will be the value of e-commerce in the Netherlands, which would mean that its increase would be 14 percent compared to the situation of the Dutch e-commerce industry in 2016.
This is the same percentage of growth that it had in the first three quarters of 2017. During the first three quarters of last year, Holland consumers made a total of 49.7 million purchases online, of which 39 million of these were product purchases and 10.7 million of these were service contracts.
"In the first three quarters of 2017, we have noticed that online growth continues significantly," he said. Wine Boy, editor of “Thuiswinkel.org”. “This is thanks to the good results of both sellers and physical stores that sell their products and services online. For now, we are heading for a record turnover of more than 22 billion euros. Especially, since physical stores have online sales such as one-day sales or the famous sales of "Black Friday", all of these play a very important role within the economy and the e-commerce situation in the Netherlands. " reaffirmed Winjand Jongen, about the situation and the factors that raised the Dutch e-commerce to such proportions.