Canada's Online Sales Grow 38% in 2005, Retailers Report 80% Jump in Sales

[mandy]

Canadians are spending more online, but e-commerce still accounts for just over one per cent of the total operating revenues for private firms.

Statistics Canada says online sales increased 38.4 per cent in 2005 to $39.2 billion, the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth...

Retailers reported online sales of $5.4 billion, about 15 per cent of the total. This was an increase from $3 billion of online sales in 2004...

The proportion of Canadian firms using the Internet last year was unchanged from the previous year, but they were much more likely to use a broadband connection. In 2005, 81 per cent of companies had embraced high-speed Internet...

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