E BUSINESS REPORT
September 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SMALLER EU pharmaceutical (and bulk chemical) companies are failing to use e-commerce, while larger firms are benefiting from the new technology, a new European Commission report claims. It said of companies employing less than 50 people, 19 per cent did not even use e-mail and 31 per cent did not use the Internet for marketing. *http://www.ebusiness-watch.org/marketwatch/resources/E-Business-2003.pdf
SMALLER EU pharmaceutical (and bulk chemical) companies are failing to use e-commerce, while larger firms are benefiting from the new technology, a new European Commission report claims. It said of companies employing less than 50 people, 19 per cent did not even use e-mail and 31 per cent did not use the Internet for marketing. *http://www.ebusiness-watch.org/marketwatch/resources/E-Business-2003.pdf
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