Italy
General information
Country: Italy
Official language: Italian
National Association (NA): Netcomm
Currency: Euro (EUR)
Overview of Italian e-commerce statistics
Internet penetration: 79%
% of e-shoppers: 48%
e-GDP: 2.01%
Turnover growth: 30%
Italian online population
Italy’s population in 2019 was 59 million people, of which 79% use the internet.
Italian e-commerce
Italian e-commerce sales reached €27.43 billions in 2018.
National Association

Netcomm
- Webshops: 120+
- Website: www.consorzionetcomm.it/
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Today we can absolutely say that e-commerce plays a strategic role in all the processes about innovation in our country. The steady growth pace it has been keeping for over 5 years now, confirms its dynamic nature and its positive trend. However, e-commerce players still have to face some critical issues for what concerns legal/tax, communication/promotion, logistic/educational contexts, which nowadays are common to the whole sector. That’s the reason why Netcomm has been created. In order to give some answers to these needs, Netcomm aims at sharpening cooperation among companies and entrepreneurs, acting for them at national and international levels; it aims also at supporting all the initiatives designed to promote themes, services and technologies related to e-commerce and interacts with the media for a correct communication about the subject. Finally, it defines the routes necessary to identify the high-quality outcomes among all the e-commerce players.
Become a member!
Becoming a member of Netcomm has several advantages:
- Free access to the European and Global B2C Ecommerce Light reports
- Participation in all activities, events and conferences