The Business Times
OUTLOOK 2025
·
SUBSCRIBERS

E-commerce in 2025: Sustainable growth and rationality to emerge as key themes

The focus is on unit economics and enhancing the customer experience

Summarise
Benjamin Cher

Benjamin Cher

Published Thu, Jan 9, 2025 · 06:00 PM
    • E-commerce players such as Shopee are unlikely to employ the deep discounts of yesteryear in growing their market share.
    • E-commerce players such as Shopee are unlikely to employ the deep discounts of yesteryear in growing their market share. PHOTO: BT FILE

    MARKET consolidation and new entrants stole the e-commerce industry headlines in 2024. But market watchers say the year ahead will be more rational in this space, with customers across South-east Asia unlikely to continue to enjoy deep discounts on products and shipping, which has been subsidised by the platforms.

    Last year, the entry of TikTok Shop and Temu shook up the status quo among e-commerce platforms in the region. Already, TikTok Shop has been seen to have gained significant market share here.

    In Indonesia, the region’s biggest e-commerce battleground, TikTok Shop faced some regulatory setbacks. To continue operating in the country, it bought a majority stake in Indonesian e-commerce platform Tokopedia as a workaround.

    E-commerceShopeeLazadaTemuTikTokSea LtdOutlook 2025

    Copyright SPH Media. All rights reserved.

    Reuse this contentFeedback
    Latest T-bills Treasury Bills Results & Interest NewsLatest SSB Singapore Savings Bonds NewsLatest COE Certificate of Entitlement News
    Latest Johor-Singapore SEZ NewsLatest BTO Build To Order & Sales of Balance NewsLatest STI Straits Times Index NewsLatest SGX Dividends, Share Price NewsLatest Bonds Market NewsLatest Singapore Stocks To Buy NewsLatest Singapore Economy News
    View More