companies that sell online and/or use EDI-type transactions. Multiple answers possible.
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Detailed possible answers:
Your own website or apps
A small commercial platform (e.g.: a specialised website or one with only a few products or brands)
A large commercial platform (e.g.: a generalist website selling a lot of different products or brands)
EDI-type transfer (Electronic Data Interchange, e.g.: XML)
Don't know
The survey was carried out in 26 member states of the European Union. Malta and Cyprus were excluded from the survey.
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Share of methods used by companies to sell online in Europe in 2014
This statistic displays the share of methods that companies used to sell goods and/or services online. Of the responding companies, ** percent used their own websites or applications to offer their goods and services online.
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