Couriers gain from e-commerce, too

Adrian Mihai, one of the three owners of Fan Courier, maintains online stores such as eMag type will generate 10% of turnover this year, from only 1-2% four years ago.
In other words, parcels delivered for e-commerce companies will bring the courier 4m-euro revenues, compared with 440,000 euros in 2006.
"We've sealed contracts both with large stores, but also with a lot of small stores in the e-commerce field, for which we deliver only several parcels per week," stated Adrian Mihai, a business development manager and shareholder of Fan Courier.
The other two shareholders in the company are Felix Pătrăşcanu and Neculai Mihai.
The other couriers operating on the Romanian market are also seeing rising revenues owing to clients in the electronic fields, as well as those in teleshopping.
The online retail market has advanced by 30% on average this year, according to players' estimates, and the biggest IT&C retailer domestically, eMag, also selling products online, generated 41m-euro turnover in the first six months of the year, up 64% against 2009, according to the company's representatives.