The bar chart depicts the value of UK e-commerce sales by different industries between 2009 and 2015.
Overall, all sectors display noticeable fluctuations in sales during the given period of time. Wholesale stands as the only industry crossing 200 billion in sales, in 2014. In contrast, both information and communication as well as transport and storage remained below 50 billion in all these years. Factually, wholesale followed by manufacturing tops the list from 2009 to 2015.
In 2009, wholesale sector was just short of 150 billion in revenue but rose drastically in 2014, recording slightly more than 200 billion. But, eventually fell short below the 200 billion mark in the following year. The manufacturing industry observed similar growth patterns to that of wholesale, starting at around 120 billion in the year 2009 and took a surge in the year 2014, reaching slightly above 150 billion.
The transport and storage department observed a predictable rise and fall pattern over the period crossing no more than the 50 billion margin in any of the years. Similarily, information and communication reported a growth in sales from 2009 reaching around 45 billion approximately, but then declined in the following years.