Article: Online Consumers Spent $18.5 Billion During 2003 Holiday Season, According To The Goldman Sachs, Harris Interactive and Nielsen//Netratings Holiday Espending Report; Online spending up 35 percent over 2002; top-five categories for the season include apparel, toys and video games, consumer electronics, computer hardware and peripherals and video/DVD.

ROCHESTER, N.Y., and NEW YORK, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Online holiday shoppers spent a record $18.5 billion online excluding travel during the 2003 holiday season, according to the eSpending Report from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive(R), and Nielsen//NetRatings. This represents an increase of 35 percent over the $13.7 billion spent in 2002.

The eSpending Report found that the product categories for apparel, toys/video games (hardware and software), consumer electronics, computer hardware and peripherals and video/DVD, generated the most revenue this season. Online shoppers spent $3.8 billion on apparel this season, a 40 percent increase from 2002 (see ...

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