eBay’s Nikolaus Lindner presents representatives from the city of Diepholz with their winner’s certificate.

This week Nikolaus Lindner, Director eBay Government Relations, spoke at NEOCOM, Germany’s leading ecommerce trade show. In partnership with the German Retail Association (HDE), Nikolaus presented the “Digital City Center” contest and a certificate to its first winner, the city of Diepholz. As the winner of this contest, eBay will create a web page for Diepholz promoting local retailers who also sell on eBay, which will go live in November. This contest is the result of a pilot program previously launched in Mönchengladbach. 

eBay congratulates the city of Diepholz and hopes that this will encourage more and more “offline” retailers to go online and sell via marketplaces.