4.Different Types of E-Business

E-business Categories:

The E-business categories are relatively simple to grasp and can be divided into the following categories:

·         Business to Consumer (B2C)

·         Business to Government (B2G)

·         Consumer to Government (C2G)

·         Business to Business (B2B)

·         Consumer to Consumer (C2C)


Business to consumer (B2C): Is the type of business that sells their product or service to an individual consumer for profit. Good examples of this are K-mart in Australia or Wal-Mart in the USA selling their goods to consumers.

Business to Government (B2G): Businesses selling their goods or services to government agencies. A government organization would hire a third second party to clean the windows to their building or to build a new city bypass. The Victorian government in Australia is currently hiring another party to build the East/West city bypass link through Melbourne.

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Consumer to Government (C2G):  The book for which we study for our E-Commerce coarse doesn’t identify that consumer to government is a major category of E-Business however as it is one I will endeavor to supply an explanation. Consumer to Government (C2G) specifically relates to Taxation (yay).

Business to Business (B2B):
This is directly described as businesses selling their products or services directly to another business. The local gym in your town is hiring a painting company to re-color paint the existing walls of their establishment.