Germany tops Euro league for web business
3 April 2012
Germany is the dominant Internet economy in Europe, with Britain trailing a long way behind in second place, according to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) survey of the top 150 Internet companies.
Germany controls 45 per cent of the European market, Britain 16 per cent, Holland 14 per cent and France 7 per cent.
But the report’s authors said that this does not mean the government will not achieve its aim for Britain to be the best place in the world to do e-commerce by 2002. “It’s just a snapshot,” said Paul Spratt, partner at PwC. “Some firms may do...