The turnover of the Ukrainian internet shops in the past year totaled over $2 billion, and it can be close to the $3-4 billions in 2012. This forecast was announced to the AIN correspondent by Dmitry Lappo, the managing partner of the business literature online-store kniga.biz.ua.

According to him, the most rapidly growing segments in Uanet online commerce is clothing, footwear and toys (generally, all kinds of children`s goods). The online books selling cannot be included into the rapidly growing segment. “Ukrainian Ozon does not exist yet, although a lot of companies once claimed to be on his place, like Petrovka and Yakaboo” – said an expert.

In total, according to the expert`s rough estimates, Uanet has about 250-300 Internet projects on online selling, operating and profitable. “The others are somehow trying to survive. The amount of such projects is about 2-2.5 thousand” – said Dmitry Lappo.

Knigs.biz.ua is a leader in business literature online selling. According to the editorial office the nearest competitors are Olmaxbooks.com and Bookzone.com.ua

Should be reminded, that the assessment of the market is similar to the estimates of other experts. Thus, according to the head of Internet Invest Alexander Olshansky, the volume of cashless payments in Uanet is $200 million a year and in 2011 it increased almost a half. And this is just a small part of all the sales that Ukrainian online stores have: they are paid mostly in cash on delivery.

Source: AIN.UA