Irish companies above EU average for e-commerce use

Irish firms are comfortably above the EU average for e-commerce usage, CSO data shows.

The figures reveal 51% of all Irish enterprises used e-commerce for making purchases in 2012, while 23% used e-commerce for sales purposes. Those figures compare to EU averages of 34% and 16% respectively.

They also mean Irish businesses have moved up the EU rankings for e-commerce usage in the past 12 months.