Why major e-commerce players like Rakuten, Qoo10, Groupon, LivingSocial, Rocket Internet, eBay, Naspers are venturing into Southeast Asia region?
Why major e-commerce players like Rakuten, Qoo10, Groupon, LivingSocial, Rocket Internet, eBay, Naspers are venturing into Southeast Asia region?
Let's look into the fundamental data why the big guns are here.
We have compiled some slides on key e-commerce statistics of Southeast Asia with focus on Malaysia, which you can view it by the end of this post. Before that, let's us present excerpts from the slides first.
Internet and e-commerce growth potential in Southeast Asia
In the slides, we will look into the macro environment in Southeast Asia, in terms of Internet users, retail market, e-commerce market size in "Big 6" SEA countries - Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines.
We are looking at the data as of 2011, and forecast the market potential in 2016.
Online behaviour of Internet users in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia in general is consists of young countries, which is an ideal environment for e-commerce growth. Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines all have more than 50% younger (below 35 years old) online populations.
We are also going to revisit top online retail sites in Southeast Asia, which presents a showdown between Amazon and Lazada.
Focus on Malaysia: basic indicators
Malaysia will serve as a good reference point for Southeast Asia for its multi-racial population, and also by having moderate market size and growth potential.
In the slides, we will look into the population, Internet / broadband / mobile penetration, smartphone / tablet penetration, mobile / 3G subscription and credit card / online banking environment.
Malaysia's e-commerce market size
In this section, we will derive figures from Nielson & PayPal Analysis and compare it to Euromonitor's. PayPal-Nielsen reported or forecasted bigger numbers than Euromonitor mainly due to its analysis which includes transactions of services like travel and ticketing.
Top e-commerce categories will also be presented, for both online and mobile (smartphone, tablet).
Key statistics of SME in Malaysia
So, who are the merchants that are selling, or potentially selling online in Malaysia? The answer is SMEs.
Similar with most countries out there, most local businesses are mainly small to medium sizes, the share of SME is 99.2% in Malaysia. In the slides, we have also compiled the e-commerce readiness of SMEs, and also what industry they are in.
Here comes the slides!
If you are unable to view the slides below, you can view it here.
Credit: Some of the charts are produced using infogr.am
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