What are the current (2003) forecasts and estimates for the next one
to five years for the Business to Business and Business to Consumer
markets in E-commerce worldwide and in the United States.

Some resources I've searched include
http://www.epaynews.com/statistics/purchases.html#12
http://news.com.com/2010-1078-917379.html
http://ecommerce.internet.com/news/news
http://gartnergroup.com
I have lots of old statistics from 1999-2000, I need something that
was made in the past 12 months.

Dear logisnews-ga;

Sure! Here you go…Enjoy:

BEHIND THE NUMBERS: ADVANCED B2B FORECASTS REVEALED
http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com/Internet_PowerPoints/behindB2bnumbers.ppt

This report is in the form of a nicely designed Power Point
presentation. It contains all the current data and future projections
you requested in the form of easily interpreted graphs supported by
text information. This document is courtesy of:

ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
http://www.advancedmanufacturing.com/research.htm

This particular report is offered free of charge by ADVANCED
MANUFACTURING but you can also purchase requested data from their
site. You will note that there are other free reports available. Some
may also be of interest to you. You may initially notice, as I did,
that the site make numerous references to Canada, but as you will see
in the free reports I’ve found for you, the data is all US based
information and forecasts.

Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting
question.

Below you will find that I have carefully defined my search strategy
for you in the event that you need to search for more information. By
following the same type of searches that I did you may be able to
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Tutuzdad-ga


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B2B MARKET FORECASTS

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Request for Answer Clarification by logisnews-ga on 19 Feb 2003 17:39 PST

Hi, thanks for your work.

I did specifically say that I needed data from the last 12 months. 
Data from 1999 or 2000 is useless -- or almost useless to me because
everything prior to the dot.com meltdown in 2000 was way too rosy and
overinflated.  Few people trust those numbers.  Plus I HAVE all that
information -- though not the slides you sent me.

Please get me some RECENT numbers as requested -- something in the
last 12 months. Every slide that I looked at was from 2000 or earlier.
Thanks very much.

Jim

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 19 Feb 2003 18:18 PST

I'm sorry. I guess I misunderstood the question. I assumed that you
meant forecasts beyond 2003 up to one to five years (which that
presentation provided - at least up to 2004). My preliminary search
for the data you need which was "written" in the last 12 months is
VERY expensive and doubtful that they will be found for free. Are you
opposed to buying the data? If not, I can provide sources.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 20 Feb 2003 14:13 PST

I've spent a great deal of time shopping these sources for you. To
save you some trouble, if you are interested in buying the latest
forecast data (which is the only way you can get the latest reliable
data) here are some fee based sources that are much more reasonable
that the normal $2500-$3500 fee that some sources charge for the same,
or similar reports:

E-MARKETER
http://www.emarketer.com/products/database.php?f_arg_0=FORECAST+B2B&f_page_num=&f_page_num_b=&f_arg_0_b=FORECAST+B2B&f_num_args_changed=1&f_num_articles_found=172&f_num_charts_found=4704&f_num_reports_found=16&f_reports_found=%282000137%2C+2000135%2C+2000132%29&f_request=&f_search_type=Basic&Image81.x=0&Image81.y=0

MINDBRANCH
http://www.mindbranch.com/catalog/print_product_page.jsp?code=R203-110

BIZREPORT
B2B http://www.bizreport.com/researchstore/report.php?report_id=41&PHPSESSID=da39caf7c0621b09e31e188bde392f62

B2C http://www.bizreport.com/researchstore/report.php?report_id=9&PHPSESSID=da39caf7c0621b09e31e188bde392f62

ALL http://www.bizreport.com/researchstore/

"WebSideStory StatMarket"
http://www.websidestory.com/content.cfm?Pg=3#Global%20Internet%20Statistics

More resources like these can be found here:
INFO TODAY
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/sep00/friedman.htm

I hope this provides you with a number of methods of gaining the
information you are seeking and also saves you some money in the
process.

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga

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Clarification of Answer by tutuzdad-ga on 26 Feb 2003 18:22 PST

Here's some other data (small but free) that I found which might be of
interest to you:

"Worldwide B2B revenues to rise dramatically"
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358058&rel=true

"Ecommerce sales on the up in US"
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905358730&rel=true

"B2B ecommerce sales set to increase"
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357936&rel=true

"B2B spending to exceed USD1 trillion in 2004"
http://www.nua.com/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=905357891&rel=true

Regards;
tutuzdad-ga