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Internet Sales Statistics
Online shops are here to stay and are growing. Ensure that your business does not get left behind.
E-commerce is having a huge impact on the way we do business. It can lead to dramatic growth in trade, increase markets, improve efficiency and effectiveness and can transform business processes
In the UK 2007 :
- 4.4m people spent a total of £84m online on Christmas Day - 269% more than last year and an average of £19.09 per shopper. [Source: IMRG]
- Despite its woes on the high street, online sales at Marks & Spencer rose by 78% in the 13 weeks up to December 29. [Source: M&S)
- The UK's online shoppers reportedly spent £767,500 in just 60 seconds at 1.09pm on December 10th. [Source: Retail Solutions]
- Figures for the whole of December are unavailable as yet, but online spending reached £5.4bn in November. This equates to £891 spent online for every person in the UK, and was an increase of 65% over November 2006. [Source: IMRG]
Data from the Office for UK National Statistics show that the value of Internet sales to UK households rose fourfold to £21.4 billion between 2002 and 2005..
Data supplied by the Ofice of National Statistics
