Noon news and trends

Is Amazon Looking to Take Out Noon in the Middle East?
eCommerce // June 28, 2022

Amazon is on the move again. In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the global tech giant is acting with a growing boldness to expand its eCommerce footprint in the region. Read more: What Recession? FedEx Sees eCommerce Leading Growth In addition to recently...

Middle East Online Marketplace Slowly Taking Shape
Retail // August 28, 2017

eCommerce has become a natural part of life in many parts of the world, but that hasn’t been the case in the Middle East. Most of the region’s eCommerce traffic is coming from a single country: the U.A.E. There are myriad barriers to wider acceptance,...

Noon And The Race For Middle Eastern eCommerce
International // July 25, 2017

Until fairly recently the Middle East was a rather underdeveloped region from an eCommerce point of view.  According to McKinsey, 50 million consumers are scattered across several countries in the region and yet only two percent of all retail spend flows online today. But, as...

Interviews & Exclusives
Global Markets Put a Local Spin on Black Friday Sales

November 24, 2022
On the international stage, Thanksgiving is up there with baseball and the star-spangled banner as among the most instantly recognizable emblems of Americana by which the world identifies the United States. Yet the majority of consumers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will spend Thursday (Nov. 24) in much the same way as […]