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E-commerce and ICT Activity, 2014

Main points

  • In 2014, e-commerce sales by businesses with 10 or more employees in the UK non-financial sector, were £573 billion, representing 20.1% of business turnover. This was up from £561 billion (19.8% of business turnover) in 2013. These estimates are in current prices.
  • Sales made by Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) of £374 billion contributed 65% of the value of total e-commerce sales in 2014 for businesses with 10 or more employees, with the remaining £199 billion (35%) being website sales.
  • While 19.5% of businesses with 10 or more employees generated website sales, 6.3% generated EDI sales in 2014.
  • In 2014, 95.5% of businesses with 10 or more employees had fixed broadband internet access and 80.8% had a website.
  • New coverage for micro-enterprises (businesses with less than 10 employees) has been introduced for 2014, and these estimates show that e-commerce sales by this business sizeband were £19.5 billion. This represented 4.1% of business turnover of micro-enterprises. Their e-commerce sales consisted of £17.5 billion of website sales and £2.0 billion of EDI sales.
  • In 2014, 9.6% of micro-enterprises generated website sales, while only 0.9% generated EDI sales.

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