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Global Lighting Industry E-Commerce Report 2021: E-Commerce Market Accounts for 7% of Total Lighting Fixture Sales, Worth USD 9.1 Billion at Retail Prices
Dublin, Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "E-Commerce for the Lighting Industry" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The report analyses the development of E-commerce sales in the lighting fixtures industry to nowadays and future prospects considering the diffusion and the new possibilities opened by digital technologies and providing market data on the incidence of e-commerce sales in the lighting fixtures industry, by country/geographical area (EMEA, America, Asia) and by segment (Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Outdoor lighting).
Companies featured in the report include lighting manufacturers selling through e-commerce, E-tailers, Distributors with e-commerce operations (bricks & clicks) and wholesalers. Short profiles of leading E-commerce players, sales data and market shares are included.
Countries and geographical areas analysed: EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), North America (mainly the United States), Asia (mainly China, India and Japan).
The report has been carried out using the following tools:
field research including direct interviews with leading lighting manufacturers and distributors operating in the e-commerce business;
desk analysis and comparison for a sample of over 200 companies using e-commerce (mainly US, Europe and China based);
analysis of databases concerning lighting fixtures sector worldwide;
processing of official statistics and various e-commerce related sources worldwide.
If both B2C and B2B business are included, the e-commerce market for lighting fixtures worldwide is estimated to account for over 7% of total lighting fixtures sales, worth about USD 9.1 billion at retail prices.
Residential and commercial lighting segments are the ones that registered the higher incidence in the ecommerce transactions.
The penetration of e-commerce is higher in North America (10%). In few years, e-commerce in China developed at a very rapid path and reached a similar penetration level than the one of North America. E-commerce penetration in the lighting fixtures business stood at around 7% in Europe in 2020 with the United Kingdom and Germany to be largest marketplaces.
Looking at the different distributors the study estimated that almost 34% of worldwide e-commerce sales is in the hand of wholesalers (for example, Rexel operates dozens of e-commerce sites throughout North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific). The fastest growing category is the E-tailers (+24% since 2018), which includes global e-commerce platforms (like the giant Amazon and Alibaba), specialist lighting webstores (like Lampenwelt) and furniture webstores (like Wayfair). Only few manufacturers operate their own web shop.
Companies Mentioned
Acuity Brands
Adolf Wurth
Amazon
ArcLite
Argos
Artemide
B&Q
Beacon Lighting
BUT
Conforama
Coupang
Crate & Barrel
Dunelm
Eglo
Fegime
Flipkart
Flos
Generation Brands
Gome
Grainger
Graybar
Home Depot
Home24
Homebase
House of Fraser
Huayi
Ikea
Inesa Feilo
Jingdong JD
Lampenwelt
Lamps Plus
Lowe's
Marks & Spencer
Mitegro
Oppein
Opple
Otto
Overstock
PaiPai
Panasonic
Pepperfry
Rakuten
Rexel
Sainsbury's Home
Sears
Signify
Solar
Sonepar
Sonneman
Staples
Suning
Taobao
Tmall
Tospo
Trio
Wal Mart
Wayfair
Williams-Sonoma
Yankon
Yoox
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