04-22-2007, 08:49 AM
Quote:Canadian companies reported online sales of almost $50 billion last year, a 40 per cent surge from the previous year, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday.
But while online sales grew for the fifth consecutive year, the 2006 Survey of Electronic Commerce and Technology found e-commerce was still mostly conducted between businesses and represents a small fraction of the overall economy.
E-commerce accounted for slightly over one per cent of total retail sales in Canada...
Business-to-business transactions accounted for 68 per cent of all online sales...
full article: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/...merce.html