22 Nov 2004
UK internet sales more than doubled last year to £39.5bn, according to the Office of National Statistics (ONS).
Total spending through technology-based channels, including email, fax, EDI and automated telephones, grew 15 per cent, from £170.8bn in 2002 to £195.6bn in 2003.
This means that web-based sales now represent 17 per cent of all business conducted using IT in the UK, up from 10 per cent in the previous year.
And the value of internet sales to households rose to £11.4bn in 2003 from £6.4bn in 2002.
The ONS surveyed 12,000 firms about IT usage in the annual ecommerce research, now in its fourth year.
The research uses a definition of ecommerce that has been agreed by the OECD and the European Union, which says the method by which the order is placed determines whether a transaction is ecommerce - not the payment or delivery channel.
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