Europe's e-retailers as a group grew 12.5% last year, despite the recession.
Europe e-commerce market last year generated $182 billion in sales more than the American market, which last year had sales of $165 billion according to The Internet Retailer Top 300 Europe report
12% of e-retailing sales in Europe were generated by American-owned businesses generally by using subsidiary operations. However European e-retailers do very little business in the U.S. market.
The U.K. e-commerce market grew 23% last year about twice as fast as the European growth overall.
Amazon.com is Europe's largest e-retailer. Its online sales in Europe grew 35% last year to $12.6 billion.
American e-commerce solution providers are the world leaders. Solution providers in Europe need to know potential customers in their local markets to build a bigger local and regional user base from which to expand globally.
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