The exchange of reliable and up-to-date product information is necessary to meet the growing information needs of the (online) consumer and among others to be future-proof. More and more fashion brands are opting for GS1 Fashion Base and Icecat to…
This document describes the Icecat XML method of Icecat's Open Catalog Interface (OCI): a set of standards and file formats used in the Icecat XML repository. In summary, it gives the basics of how to use the Icecat repository or…
In the recent roll-out with several leading retailers and distributors the Icecat PIM is promoted to all their vendors as their free Vendor Central. The leading Chinese and Polish marketplaces Aliexpress and Allegro. Carrefour, the Spanish hypermarket Alcampo, the leading…
Google and Amazon team up with Icecat. Amsterdam, July 28, 2019: the annual revenues of Icecat N.V. (NPEX:ICECAT) have increased by 6% over the first six months of 2018 to 4.45 million euro during this period. The gross profit increased…
EET Group, a leading European distributor for IT parts, directs its supplier brands to add their product information directly into the Icecat catalog via Vendor Central. EET Group is a value-added niche IT distributor, providing suppliers and customers with expert…
“Iceclog” (Icecat content log) is the Icecat blog, where you will find e-commerce insights about Product Information Management (PIM) and syndication tools, best practices, market trends, brand popularity rank statistics, product reviews, the latest partnerships, cryptos, technologies, and technical manuals…
Yesterday, at the annual investor meeting in Amsterdam, Icecat CEO Martijn Hoogeveen presented in a highly interactive meeting, the business results of 2018. See the full presentation (pdf). Earlier that morning the general meeting of shareholders (pdf) has approved the…
A PIM is Like Sex: It's Better When it's Free. Today, we launch an EDIT button on each of the hundreds of millions of product data-sheets (PDSs) on our website, counting also the almost 50 language versions. The EDIT button…
Data-sheet production soared by 140% thanks to AI During 2018, the annual revenues of global product content publisher and syndicator Icecat (NPEX: ICECAT) increased by 19% to 8.4 million euro compared to one year earlier. Roughly, one third of the…
The Icecat Brand Top 1000 is an annual poll based on 6.7 billion product data-sheet (PDS) downloads during 2018 generated by 15,254 user platforms representing 80.188 registered ecommerce partners from 199 countries or territories. The PDS downloads concerned the products…
Pragma, a Boron company and leading manufacturer and distributor of high-end activity and roleplay toys in Europe, successfully integrated the Icecat Product Information Manager (PIM). Pragma partners can now download all its standardized product information. In order to better categorize,…
Iceshop, the e-commerce daughter of Icecat, made a free Magento 2/Icecat Live connector available in addition to a host of other commercial Magento connectors for this most popular webshop environment. The Icecat Live integration is based on Icecat's Java Script…
Existing shareholders of Icecat N.V., the NPEX-listed global publisher of product data for the e-commerce market, have today realized the exit of Snijders Invest B.V. as a minority shareholder. The 6.7% of ordinary shares Icecat that where still owned by…
Amsterdam, October 15, 2018: The quarterly revenues of Icecat N.V., the listed publisher of product data for the global e-commerce market, expanded by 19.7% to 2.13 million euro during Q3-2018, compared to the same period one year earlier. The profit…
Version: 1.21, August 28, 2019. The purpose of this post is to explain the Icecat URL method to get product data-sheets. It's the easiest way to integrate product data in your website, but hardly used anymore, as URLs require frames…
The Icecat taxonomy used in its Product Information Manager (PIM) environment went through a major cleanup. A number of multimedia capabilities, related to 3D, HTML, logos and images, were improved. And, support of Macedonian and Austrian-German locales was added. Below…
Download the full Icecat N.V. YH1 2018 report (pdf) Icecat N.V., the listed provider of product data to the global e-commerce market, enjoyed an annual revenues growth rate that accelerated to 24.4% over the first six months of 2018 (from 21.5%…
To improve on privacy protection and online security Icecat has implemented Two Factor Authentication (2FA) functionality as an additional protection of a user's account. 2FA is an extra layer of security for a user profile, designed to ensure that only authorized users can…
GS1 officially started in the Netherlands a collaboration with Icecat and leading players in the fashion industry: Fashion Base. The goal is to create a product catalogue with product data for fashion e-commerce and retail, and can be easily shared…
According to its annual report 2017, Icecat accelerated its revenues growth rate to 17% year-on-year. Net profit and EBITDA were more or less stable as the strategic focus had been on investing in faster growth. There were no significant changes…