Rakuten, a Japan e-commerce group with a growing interest in internet sales-based logistics services, is acquiring US-based Webgistix, a logistics and services company that specialises in in fulfillment technology for e-commerce retailers. Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed, nor was a press announcement available on either company’s web site at the time of writing.
Set up in 2001, Webgistix offers a service to e-commerce companies to manage their supply chains with software for order fulfillment, freight management…
