Buchkatalog.de honored as Trend Shop 2021.

COMPUTER BILD and Statista determine "Rising star of the year"

Stuttgart, November 17, 2020: The Buchkatalog.de platform from media wholesaler KNV Zeitfracht has been named "Trend Shop 2021 - Rising Star of the Year" by COMPUTER BILD in collaboration with market research institute Statista. The testers attested to the platform's outstanding growth and excellent technical quality. In addition to the online store www.buchkatalog.de, around 1,000 online stores of bookstores also rely on the Buchkatalog.de platform. KNV Zeitfracht provides the bookstores with the store system under the name "E-Commerce Solutions" (ECS). Sales across all stores based on E-Commerce Solutions increased almost eightfold during the lockdown from March to June. They are currently more than twice as high as in the previous year.

In total, COMPUTER BILD and Statista tested more than 10,000 German-language online stores. The 750 award-winning "Newcomers of the Year" showed the greatest growth in terms of traffic and sales over the past two years. The study by COMPUTER BILD and Statista also included technical quality features of the stores.

The E-Commerce Solutions store system enables bookshops to have a professional online store with many individual design options. The bookstores' online customers have access to KNV Zeitfracht's complete range of books and non-books, including print-on-demand titles and e-books: A total of over five million items can be ordered via the stores.

The Buchkatalog.de platform has around one and a half million users every year. In order to provide bookstores with additional online sales opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic, KNV Zeitfracht has integrated all interested bookstores into Buchkatalog.de as pick-up points since mid-October. Previously, only booksellers using a store based on e-commerce solutions were listed on Buchkatalog.de. Online customers can select a bookstore near them as their "favorite bookstore" when ordering. In addition, the option of home delivery will soon be activated on Buchkatalog.de.

"We are delighted to receive this award," says Thomas Raff, CEO of KNV Zeitfracht. "During the lockdown in spring, our teams did everything they could to support bookstores during this difficult time. For example, we activated an online store within 24 hours for bookstores that did not yet have one." The e-commerce team also integrated various social media campaigns and took part in overarching marketing campaigns such as "Friendship for Reading" and "Shop at Home".

About KNV Zeitfracht
KNV Zeitfracht is the leading logistics service provider for the book and media industry. It is part of the Zeitfracht Group, a family-owned company headquartered in Berlin. KNV Zeitfracht employs around 1,500 people at its locations in Erfurt and Stuttgart. KNV Zeitfracht's logistics center in Erfurt is one of the largest and most modern media logistics facilities in Europe.