In 2021, the value of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales reached 1.7 trillion U.S.dollars in the United States. Estimating a compound annual growth rate of 10.7 percent, U.S. B2B e-commerce will generate over three billion U.S. dollars sales by 2027.
In 2021, combined manufacturing and merchant wholesale e-commerce revenue in the United States amounted to 4.2 trillion U.S. dollars. This represented an increase compared to the previous year, when the total business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce volume amounted to almost 3.63 trillion U.S. dollars.
In 2022, sales through business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce amounted to more than 623 billion U.S. dollars in the manufacturing industry in the United States. This represented a 15 percent increase compared to the previous year, when B2B digital sales were around 543 billion U.S. dollars.
B2B sellers taking part in a survey estimated that e-commerce revenues might increase over 2021, when compared with the previous year. 28 percent of surveyed professionals believed B2B revenues would increase between 11 and 24 percent in 2021. Another 22 percent expected the percentage change to be even higher: between 25 and 49 percent.
B2B Internet commerce in Poland has maintained an upward trend over the observed period. In 2020, trade value amounted to 447 billion zloty and grew by approximately 30 percent year on year.
This statistic displays the share of enterprises that made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales via a website in Germany from 2014 to 2021. In 2021, 12 percent of enterprises based in Germany made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales through a website.
In 2021, nearly 40 percent of companies in Poland indicated that the trend in B2B e-commerce was that the Post-Millenials prefer to buy online and don't need contact with a salesperson.
Direct sales were the dominant sales channel for companies with B2B e-commerce in Poland in 2021.
In 2021, the market size of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce was worth 5.6 billion U.S. dollars in India. The market size of B2B e-commerce is likely to increase to about 60 billion U.S. dollars in the year 2025. B2B e-commerce is the online selling of products or services between businesses.
This statistic displays the share of enterprises that made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales via a website in Italy from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, nine percent of enterprises based in Italy made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales through a website, up from the previous year.
China's cross-border B2B e-commerce market is expected to surge from around 5.7 trillion yuan in 2021 to nearly 14 trillion yuan in 2025. This indicate a CAGR of around 25 percent.
In 2021, e-commerce accounted for 69.6 percent of manufacturing shipments in the United States. In contrast, online sales only accounted for 14.7 percent of total retail trade shipments and revenues in the U.S.
In the UK, about four in ten professionals responsible for their company’s purchases considered the availability of customized products an essential factor in their online purchases. Even higher percentages of their colleagues in the Unied States and China states the same. Another 31 percent of the UK B2B buyers stated that easy checkout was an important factor. The platform of Amazon Business seemed to fulfill the mentioned requirements, as more than half of respondents of the same survey envisaged using the B2B marketplace in the future. Use of marketplaces in companies Enterprises are using e-commerce marketplaces for their purchases more than before, especially when it comes to orders outside the main procurement spending. A study conducted among German enterprises showed that the number of companies and organizations using e-commerce sites for tail spend increased significantly between 2018 and 2019. Merchandise volume of marketplaces The growth of B2B e-commerce on marketplaces resulted in an increase of gross merchandise volume (GMV) 1191795, the value that which indicates the total amount of sales. It has been estimated that GMV amounted to over 31 billion U.S. dollars as of 2020, up from the previous year, when it did not go over 23 billion U.S. dollars.
The B2B marketplace Kampaay, which operates in the catering and event management sector, gathered 2.5 million U.S. dollars in investments since its founding in 2019. Among selected Italian e-commerce companies selling products and services to other businesses, Time Flow ranked second, having obtained a total founding amount of 398 thousand U.S. dollars as of July 2021.
Several B2B e-commerce companies based in France obtained sizeable investments over the past few years. Among the listed companies, the B2B retail marketplace Ankorstore was the most successful at gathering funds, amassing a total of 138.5 million U.S. dollars in investments as of July 2021. The marketplace Warmango ranked second, as it received funding for 1.8 million U.S. dollars since its founding in 2016.
In the United Kingdom, the share of business-to-business (B2B) organisations' revenue share which comes from digital channels has increased from 33 percent in 2021 to 46 percent in 2023. According to this, the rise is expected to continue, with the revenue share from digital channels in 2025 projected to be 56 percent.
This statistic displays the share of enterprises that made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales via a website in Belgium from 2013 to 2021. In 2021, 19 percent of enterprises based in Belgium made B2B and B2G e-commerce sales through a website.
In 2021, ten percent of respondents recorded revenues between 20 and 80 million zloty from B2B e-commerce in Poland.
In 2021, saving time was the biggest benefit of digital sales channels or B2B e-commerce for businesses in Finland. Also, 77 percent profited from increased sales efficiency and 53 percent even of an increase in sales.
Between 2021 and 2022, business-to-business (B2B) sales remained stable in Brazil. In turn, the value of B2B online sales tripled in the considered years, going from 24 to 61 billion Brazilian reals.
In 2021, the value of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce sales reached 1.7 trillion U.S.dollars in the United States. Estimating a compound annual growth rate of 10.7 percent, U.S. B2B e-commerce will generate over three billion U.S. dollars sales by 2027.