Who are Asia's top online retailers? Internet Retailer's 2013 Asia 500 provides the answers

CHICAGO, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Internet Retailer®, the leading publisher of strategic business information for e-commerce executives, announced today the release of its 320-page 2013 Asia 500 research publication, available in print, digital and online formats, which provides previously unavailable competitive data and analysis on the 500 leading e-retailers in Asia.

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The fruit of over a year's worth of research conducted across Asia's nearly $400 billion direct-to-consumer e-commerce market by Internet Retailer's full-time team of editors, the Internet Retailer 2013 Asia 500 provides scores of details on Asia's booming e-commerce players in such key markets as China and Japan, including their annual web sales in 2012, overall and country market rank, monthly web traffic, conversion rate, average ticket, merchandise category, payments and performance metrics and much more. Overall, this inaugural publication reveals 148 separate financial and operating metrics on each of the 500 Asia web merchants it ranks and offers a short profile on each e-retailer's web-selling strategy.

These leading e-retailers stand at the forefront of the world's largest, fastest-growing e-commerce market—one which last year grew nearly twice as fast as the $226 billion U.S. e-commerce market. "Despite its relatively late start, e-commerce in Asia is already bigger than e-retailing in the United States, and it's growing twice as fast," says Jack Love, publisher of Internet Retailer. "That alone makes this research guide—now the 10^th in our library—the most important one we have introduced since we published the first Top 500 Guide nine years ago, because no e-commerce market is going to impact American retailers, manufacturers and vendors more than Asia."

Until now, there's been no comprehensive source of information about the region's top web merchants— such as China's $170 billion e-commerce leader, Alibaba—let alone an objective assessment of their progress. Only Internet Retailer delivers those kinds of analytics with the debut of this indispensable research guide, which includes a wealth of never-before-seen data such as a complete ranking, based on 2012 web sales, of the 500 largest e-retailers in Asia, notably China, India, Japan and South Korea; valuable contact information of nearly 800 e-commerce executives in the region; and a detailed cover story analyzing what's driving the growth in Asian web retailing, including the opportunity U.S. e-retailers see in China and elsewhere.

The 320-page guide is now available in print and digital versions as well as via online database access made possible through a subscription to Top500Guide.com, the world's largest online database of competitive e-commerce information.

For media inquiries, contact Chaz McCrobie-Quinn, circulation manager, Internet Retailer, at 312.362.0107.

ABOUT INTERNET RETAILER®
The flagship brand of Vertical Web Media, Internet Retailer® provides comprehensive e-commerce business intelligence through print and digital channels including a monthly magazine, several research guides, web sites, online databases and e-mail newsletters. Internet Retailer, launched in March 1999, is the largest monthly magazine in e-retailing with more than 44,000 subscribers. Launched in 2000 and completely revamped in 2010, InternetRetailer.com is the most visited informational web site in e-commerce. Featuring industry news that is updated daily, the site attracts more than 250,000 unique monthly visitors. IRNewsLink, an e-mail newsletter of daily e-commerce news, is sent out every day Monday through Friday to more than 46,000 subscribers.

ABOUT VERTICAL WEB MEDIA
Vertical Web Media is a privately held, Chicago-based publisher that focuses on providing business intelligence for the e-commerce industry. Founded and led by journalists, the company aims to be the largest and most credible provider of objective business information on the market trends, technology, competitive practices and people shaping online retailing. Starting with Internet Retailer magazine, launched in 1999, Vertical Web Media has since introduced more than a dozen competitive data products and is now the largest publisher in e-commerce. Through its Internet Retailer® brand, the company operates a monthly magazine, two web sites, two e-mail newsletters, and 10 research guides—strategic content designed to equip e-commerce executives with the competitive data they need to help grow their online businesses.

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