E-commerce Panel 2014

Which e-shops are worst off - the small ones, specialized ones, big market players or medium-sized e-shops? Is the number of e-shops consolidating? And how does it look in the food segment?

Also watch the other videos from the panel discussion - the survey presentation How e-shops look in 2014 and how e-shops invest in stock and logistics.

Panel discussion speakers

Tomáš Braverman / Heureka.cz

The head of the strongest Czech price comparator previously acted as executive director of Internet Retail operations in Slovakia and Poland. Heureka.cz is the largest domestic comparison of goods, indicating the direction of Czech e-commerce. Member of the multinational Allegro Group.

Jan Vetyška / APEC

It has been since 2006 executivem director of the Association for Electronic Commerce. He cares about the development of Czech e-commerce and is interested in online marketing trends. He previously worked at Internet Info and Economia Online. APEK is an association of 313 companies, entrepreneurs and experts in e-commerce. It was founded in 1998 as an independent organization supporting the development of electronic commerce in the Czech Republic.

Miroslav Černý / TESCO

Marketing manager of TESCO Stores CR, has been working in the company for 7 years. Previously, he worked for Vitana, Nestlé or telephone operator Oscar (later Vodafone). ​TESCO is one of the largest retailers on the Czech market. It also recently launched the first online grocery store in the Czech Republic.

Jan Penkala / ACOMWARE

John is director of ACOMWARE, in which he has been working for more than 7 years. He is in charge of the intelligent e-mailing service and also develops expertise in the company and determines the strategy for e-shops and retailers in the field of e-commerce. ACOMWARE is a consulting company focused on e-commerce. It focuses primarily on e-commerce consulting, increasing traffic, business performance and intelligent emailing.

Josef Mech / SportObchod.cz

He has been working at SportObchod.cz since 2002, and for the second year, as he himself states, as a principal (Managing Partner). He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Masaryk University in Brno. ​SportObchod.cz is one of the largest e-shops with sports equipment in the field of Czech e-commerce, a two-time winner of the ShopRoku best e-shop competition.

Filip Černý / Guitars.cz

He previously worked, for example, at Ogilvy, and is now in his seventh year as a marketing manager of the largest Czech e-seller of musical instruments, Kytary.cz. Kytary.cz is the largest Czech e-shop with musical instruments - it has been operating in the field of e-commerce since 2000. It is visited daily by over 10,000 unique customers.

Panel moderator

​Jan Svoboda / ACOMWARE

Honza Svoboda is the former founder and director of NetDirect s.r.o., which became the most important Central European manufacturer of e-shops during his tenure. Subsequently, he worked as an executive at Allegro Group CZ, s.r.o. He currently works at ACOMWARE as a Manager for e-commerce partners.