Third-party role to expand rapidly
3 April 2012
A third of all business-to-business e-commerce in Europe will take place through third parties by 2004, according to a specialist securities company.
A report by Durlacher Research forecasts that about 10 per cent - £5 billion - of this year’s estimated £48 billion business-to-business e-commerce total will be conducted by commodity or service-specific Internet trading sites. It predicts that these intermediaries will account for 32 per cent - £260 billion - of a total of £775 billion by 2004.
The report,...