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Business Practices Survey


2001

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Highlights


  • Thirty-six percent of New Zealand businesses have a website. The level of sales generated through the Internet is estimated to be 0.3 percent of total operating income of New Zealand businesses.

 

  • Seventy-nine percent of businesses regularly use email. The most common use of email is to communicate with customers and suppliers.

 

  • Eighty percent of businesses use information technology for accounting systems.
  • Seventy-five percent of businesses have set procedures for dealing with customer complaints.

 

  • Eighty percent of businesses have a formal system in place to manage the storage and retrieval of information.

 

  • Sixty-two percent of businesses have in the last three years offered new or significantly improved products to their customers.                         






 

Brian Pink
Government Statistician

30 January 2002
Cat 01.503 Set 01/02 – 120


There is a companion Media Release published  – Business Practices Survey: 2001.

 



  Business Practices Survey: 2001 (pdf)



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