Co-founder of Cube Asia, Cube Asia

Simon Torring

Co-founder of Cube Asia, a market insights company for online retail in Southeast Asia. We help brands, retail companies, and investors drive profitable growth by leveraging more recent, granular, and reliable data and insights about their online sales channels.

Co-founder of Cube Asia

Defining Social Commerce in Southeast Asia

Cube Asia

We offer granular market data and insights for online retail in Southeast Asia, helping brands and retail companies drive profitable growth. 

Why the Cube?
3 dimensions of granularity to help you get deep into the 1) geographies, 2) categories, and 3) types of data and insights you need for your business.

The Cube is a big-data machine that is continuously listening to public data sources and primary research, and triangulating across thousands of data points using probabilistic modeling to produce an accurate and granular picture of Southeast Asia’s online retail landscape.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>It has been a challenging couple of years for Lazada, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia.</li><li>After entering – and arguably helping create – the region’s modern online shopping market in 2012 as a first-mover (then backed by Rocket Internet), Lazada’s competitive environment got tougher and tougher over the years.</li><li>First, Shopee emerged as a formidable regional competitor from 2015/2016.</li></ul>

It has been a challenging couple of years for Lazada, Alibaba’s e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia.After entering – and arguably helping create – the region’s modern online shopping market in 2012 as a first-mover (then backed by Rocket Internet), Lazada’s competitive environment got tougher and tougher over the years.First, Shopee emerged as a formidable regional competitor from 2015/2016.

How Should We Think About Lazada’s Future Prospects?