Who will be the next Jack Ma? The Chinese billionaire has created the online trading giant Alibaba, which competes sharply with the American space deer Amazon. The ongoing Boom of the too good English “E-Commerce” referred to the industry zeigtnun also the first follow on the training market: this year, for the first time offered training to the “E-Commerce-merchant/wife” there is a veritable onslaught.

Just under 1400 contracts of employment had been completed in the current training year 2018/19 for the new profession, reported by the trade Association Germany (HDE) in Berlin. Thus, the expectations had been clearly exceeded. Overall, the German retail sector employs around 150,000 apprentices. The new training includes issues such as the technical and content-related requirements for the operation of the Online shop.

in view of the good economy, the HDE expects this year with a growth in turnover in the trading of 2.3 percent to 525 billion euros. The Online trade is expected to grow particularly strongly by 9.6 per cent.