April 21, 2005

eCommerce up but not sexy

Today's Canadian papers are carrying the highlights of Statistics Canada report on ebusiness and ecommerce in Canada during 2004. The short of it is that the numbers are up again by 50%, which is to those of us in the faithful neither surprising nor news. Two of the stories are here: More turning to e-business transactions (Globe & Mail) and here: Online sales up by almost 50% (TorStar).

No snip on this one. But, one of the features of this growth is that it's not being driven by B2C retail. You guessed it . . . B2B activity. And, they say, that's where there's tons of unexploited growth. Oh yeah, and the availability of broadband -- a structural condition -- is a factor too.

D'oh!

Posted by Grayson at April 21, 2005 07:14 AM