The Belgian online association Becommerce has distinguished on 29 April , electronics company Coolblue with the socalled Prix du Public. The Dutch based company, which is also active in Belgium with web shops such as Smartphoneshop, Digicamshop and Laptopshop, is this year the most popular web shop of Belgium.
Except the Prix du Public four other prices were awarded of which two, both the Starter’s Award and Best Webshop fell in the hands of online pharmacy newpharma.be,
The other two BeCommerce Awards, for best B2C- and best B2B-webshop went to cinema site Kinepolis.com and the `virtual cantine' Proxyclick.eu.
The Prix du Public was awarded on the basis of a public poll answered by some 55.000 consumers.
The BeCommerce Awards are an initiative of both the Belgian e-commerce association and professional magazine Inside and were distributed this year for the fourth time. The aim to boost the growing Belgian e-commerce sector . Previous year Club Med was the overall winner and in 2007 Delhaize wines, one of the biggest supermarkets of Belgium, offering amongst others an excellent selection of wines.