Electronics

Amazon is launching 'Build It', the latest project for its Day 1 Editions programme. Only when there is sufficient interest in a device or design will it be produced.

Fnac Darty, also the mother company of Vanden Borre, is satisfied with 2020: despite two lockdowns, turnover remained more or less stable. In the fourth quarter, there was even growth of nearly 10 per cent. E-commerce accounted for some 30 per cent of total sales.

Thanks to a sharp increase in demand for electrical appliances during lockdowns and an enormous growth in e-commerce, Ceconomy, MediaMarkt's parent company, can present a good report.

Media Markt and Saturn will not allow themselves to be side-lined now that Europe is once again under the spell of lockdowns. In Belgium, all stores had to be closed, and even then, the electrical retailer is selling well.

Ceconomy, the holding company behind MediaMarkt and Saturn, is recovering from the corona crisis faster than expected. The German company is raising its forecasts for this financial year, although thousands of jobs are still at risk.

French group Fnac Darty has an agreement with Mirage Retail Group on the sale of the Dutch electronics retailer BCC, allegedly for a symbolic sum.

Dutch online retailer Coolblue is continuing its German expansion. Deliveries are now also possible in the area around Cologne, while a first physical store in Germany is planned to open soon.