The Canada B2C E-Commerce report analyzes the factors that are driving the Canadian Internet consumer market to record heights.
A growing Canadian Internet market is good news for US online retailers.
The strong Canadian dollar is creating a surge in spending on US Web sites. Already, about one-third of Canadian online spending is conducted on foreign Web sites, mainly those in the US.
But Canadian e-commerce is building up steam, too.
B2C E-Commerce Sales- in Canada, 2006-2011 (billions of C$ and % change)
Key questions the “Canada B2C E-Commerce” report answers:
- How big is the Canadian B2C e-commerce market?
- What is the Canadian market potential?
- What factors are driving and holding back market growth?
- What types of goods and services are Canadians buying online?
- From what Web retailers are they making purchases?
- And many others…
The Canadian Internet economy is heating up. Last year Canadians spent C$11 billion (US$9.7 billion) online for products and services including travel, event tickets and digital downloads. By the of end 2007, eMarketer forecasts that they will have spent C$15.7 billion—nearly a 45% increase.