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Article: AOL Holiday Season Shopping Reaches $4.6 Billion; Online Shopping by AOL Members in 2000 Doubles to Record-Breaking $20 Billion.
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- Business Wire
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- January 2, 2001
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Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers
DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 2, 2001
America Online, Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, announced today that online retail sales to AOL members reached $4.6 billion during the 2000 holiday season -- approximately 70% of industry analysts' estimates of all consumer online spending this holiday season.
In addition, AOL members' total online spending over the entire year reached a record-breaking $20 billion - double the amount spent last year.
America Online (NYSE:AOL) also announced today in a separate release that on Christmas Day its flagship AOL service broke its single-day ...