E-commerce is helping Spanish artisans become exporters

13/05/2016
Export promotions agency ICEX has said the level of sales Spanish companies are able to generate through e-commerce has increased by 180% in the last five years and has insisted small artisan manufacturers can use e-commerce platforms to build up their export business.

ICEX said at a recent event in Madrid that practically all (97.8%) of artisan manufacturing companies in Spain have fewer than 10 employees. Nevertheless, it said almost 25% of these companies export their products, adding that the number of companies in this category who have an export business has doubled in the last four years.