Walla!shops
This article may have been previously nominated for deletion: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Walla!shops exists. It is proposed that this article be deleted because of the following concern:
If you can address this concern by improving, copyediting, sourcing, renaming, or merging the page, please edit this page and do so. You may remove this message if you improve the article or otherwise object to deletion for any reason. Although not required, you are encouraged to explain why you object to the deletion, either in your edit summary or on the talk page. If this template is removed, do not replace it. This message has remained in place for seven days, so the article may be deleted without further notice. Find sources: "Walla!shops" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR Nominator: Please consider notifying the author/project: {{subst:proposed deletion notify|Walla!shops|concern=article looks promotional to me. No reliable source}} ~~~~Timestamp: 20151028101019 10:10, 28 October 2015 (UTC) Administrators: delete |
| File:WallashopsLogo.png | |
| Industry | E-commerce website |
|---|---|
| Founded | Israel (1999) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Website | www.wallashops.co.il |
Walla!shops (Hebrew: וואלה! שופס) is an Israeli E-commerce website, part of the Bezeq group, designed for purchasing different products and services online. The site offers 28 trading categories such as: electricity products, smartphones and mobile phones, furniture, fashion and more. Google Israel estimates e-commerce in Israel in 2012 has totaled a mere $1 billion[1] , making walla!shops a key player in an ever growing market[2].
Background and services
The company was founded in 1999 as a joint project of walla! and the software company commercemind. It was registered as a company by its first CEO Ori Nadler. The website itself was launched in the year 2000 and by 2004 was named one of the leading online shopping networks in Israel.[3] In 2003 Walla!shops and the travel agency Issta created Walla!tours - an online travel agency. In 2006 the company launched two additional services: Walla!buy a free commerce arena similar to eBay, and Walla!pay a service that allows payments in the PayPal model. In 2011 the company launched a photo print and design website called Walla!print, which allows designing photo albums and calendars without downloading a software. In 2015 the company launched its Mopipic app, which allows creating digital albums or calendars directly from your smartphone.
In July 2015 The third annual GO eCommerce summit, the largest eCommerce event in Israel, took place Tel Aviv. WallaShops' CEO Eli Lavi lead a discussion titled “New trends in eCommerce logistics.”[4].
References
- ^ "Israel: Great at Making Startups, Terrible at E-commerce". Haaretz. 2013.
- ^ "Black Friday on Sabbath eve". The Times of Israel. 2014.
- ^ "wallashops.co.il". SimilarWeb. 2015. Retrieved 2015-10-28.
- ^ "Tech talk: Cybereason takes on Operation Kofer". Jerusalem post. 2015.