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DATA MINE Aug. 18, 1999 B2B Is Where the Action Is The buzz over E-commerce has centered on consumers snapping up everything from books and CDs to jeans and flowers online. But companies conducting business with other companies is where most of the action is. The following are projections for the growth of business-to-business E-commerce in different industries from 1998 to 2003. B2B E-commerce, billions of dollars Industry 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 Computing & electronics $19.7 $50.4 $121.4 $229.1 $319.1 $395.3 Motor vehicles 3.7 9.3 22.7 53.2 114.3 212.9 Petrochemicals 4.7 10.3 22.6 48.0 96.8 178.3 Utilities 7.1 15.4 32.2 62.9 110.6 169.5 Paper & office supplies 1.3 2.9 6.4 14.3 31.1 65.2 Shipping & warehousing 1.2 2.9 6.8 15.4 32.7 61.6 Total 43.1 109.3 251.1 499.0 842.7 1,330.8 DATA: Forrester Research Inc. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP					MORE NUGGETS More Bucks from Boob-Tube Browsers Where the Web-on-TV money will come from fraud.com? Online retailers are seeing little evidence of fraud at their sites E-Commerce Explosion Net purchases will boost worldwide E-commerce to $1.32 trillion The Mother Lode Collected nuggets from Data Mine