New Marketplace Promotes US Industrial and Construction Products Worldwide
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 10:02 AMrichmilton's News releases The industrial auction site and B2B trade portal IndustrialSAVER has launched a new B2B marketplace to help U.S. manufacturers increase sales in national and international markets
Westboro, MA - IndustrialSAVER, the auction site and social media forum for industrial suppliers and buyers announced today its plan to help boost the American economy utilizing its new Industrial Classifieds Marketplace. According to a company spokesperson, the site is designed to enable manufacturers, distributors and exporters to post and explore offers to buy and sell a broad variety of construction and industrial supplies, equipment and machinery in 54 countries.
"The U.S. economy continues to be sluggish and we believe American manufacturers need more cost-effective methods to promote their products, especially with rising oil costs that are drastically effecting industries across the country," says Dominic Matelleo, Business Director of IndustrialSAVER. He added, "While political parties blame each other for the country's economic woes, U.S. companies are utilizing the Web more than ever to develop trading partnerships in local, national and overseas markets."
IndustrialSAVER, a division of ArriveNEWS, organizer of the virtual-based exhibition International Industrial Trade Show, focuses on the promotion of US-made industrial and construction products such as building and construction materials, heavy machinery, CNC machines, process equipment, raw materials, machine tools, metalworking equipment, plastic and rubber molding machinery, abrasives, sealants and a broad range of other products and services for construction and manufacturing applications.
The site also includes on-line industrial auctions where companies can buy or sell various industrial and construction goods. In addition to the U.S. market, the auctions serve markets such as Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands and Spain. All of which can be accessed on the company's Industrial Auctions Directory.
About IndustrialSAVER.com
IndustrialSAVER is an online auction site, classifieds and social media forum for engineers, manufacturers, construction companies and other industrial buyers and suppliers. The site is designed to help companies save money on all kinds of industrial supplies, equipment and machinery as well as heavy construction equipment from manufacturers, distributors and dealers worldwide. Those in the market to buy or sell competitive priced industrial or construction products can access the site at Industrial Auctions & Classifieds.
How To Locate Potential Suppliers & Trade Successfully Using B2B Portals
2 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:58 AMEver surprised how some importers get suppliers and manufacturers around the world so effortlessly? An increasing number of people are searching for options to trade locally or globally for the product that they wish to buy on business to business portals. If you have lately decided to search for manufacturers and suppliers, using e-commerce platforms, you can certainly find sellers and suppliers from other countries without difficulty and successfully.
Exostar Set to Launch Federated Identity Service for Aerospace
1 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:54 AMWhen you use the Internet to sell your old golf clubs, you've got two security challenges: making sure that the person you're selling to is trustworthy, and making sure that others don't try to steal your data while you're doing the transaction.
Now imagine that instead of a person selling golf clubs, you're Boeing, and you want to use the Internet to share the plans to a top-secret warplane with one of your business partners.
That's the challenge faced every day by Exostar, the online B2B community that serves the aerospace and defense industries. For more than a decade, Exostar has been linking aerospace companies like Lockheed Martin, BAE, and Rolls Royce with government agencies, allowing them to securely transact purchases and do collaborative projects.
Exostar's collaborative environment provides the infrastructure that allows aerospace companies to work together over the Web, but the question of certifying an individual's identity -- ensuring that they are who they say they are, and that they have the rights to access specific applications and capabilities in the community or on a member company's systems -- has been a tricky one.
Next week, however, Exostar will launch a new capability, the Federated Identity Service, that does the process of "credentialing" on behalf of Exostar's members, ensuring that individuals that attempt to use the systems of the community or its members are who they say they are -- and are authorized to use the systems they are trying to access.
The FIS service will essentially replace many of the security processes that most companies outside the community must do on a bilateral basis with their trading partners. For example, Exostar will verify the location and the identity of an individual who attempts to log on, and ensure that their connection is secure. Exostar's systems will also ensure that the individual has access rights to the applications they are using, as defined by contracts and access privileges defined by its member companies.
Using PKI technology, Exostar also encrypts the communications between the individual and the member company, and dates and timestamps all communications and transactions to ensure that they are authentic and to provide an audit trail for assessors and legal authorities.
With FIS, Exostar resolves many of the security issues faced by supply chains that want to do business online. Back in the heyday of Internet fever, many industries and organizations attempted to build "B2B exchanges" and online communities, using the successful eBay as a model. In the end, however, few succeeded, partly because eBay's trust model was insufficient to secure high-dollar business transactions and collaboration.
"The key for a community like this is to define who you are," says Vijay Takanti, vice president and security program director at Exostar, which serves more than 40,000 companies worldwide. "There has to be a standard for certifying your identity and to verify that I have a contract with you. If you can't do that, all the other capabilities of the community are useless."
In essence, Exostar's PKI certificates allow users to come and go into authorized systems of their trading partners, much as a passport allows a person to be authenticated and tracked in the physical world. The system is significantly cheaper than bilateral exchanges of certificates or multifactor authentication schemes such as smart cards.
"We're linking over 40,000 members, so we can achieve economies of scale that no one company could achieve with its partners," Takanti says. And because Exostar's member are outsourcing the authentication process, they can reduce or eliminate their investment in in-house remote access or "guest access" technologies, such as network access control (NAC), which some companies are attempting to use with their suppliers and trading partners.
There's only one problem with the Exostar service: you have to be a member to use it. That means FIS can only help companies in the aerospace and defense industries, although similar communities are operating in industries such as pharmaceuticals and financial services, Takanti observes.
"For a community of interest, where there's agreement on standards for authentication and credentialing, this model makes great sense. I think we may see it applied in other industries," Takanti says.
Source: darkreading.com
One of the biggest challenges B2B clients grapple with is content creation. Developing material that is fresh, relevant, and keeps users coming back—while also being SEO-friendly—can be difficult. This is a problem. Fortunately though, there’s an easy and effective solution. And it’s closer than you might think.
The situation
For the most part, B2B organizations struggle with content development for one reason, and it’s not because they don’t have anything to say. Rather, the problem can be attributed to staffing, or a lack thereof, as content development typically is quite lean in most B2B organizations.
However, these same organizations tend to have solid PR teams in place—whether in house or on the agency side—that are ready, willing, and able to generate new material. In essence, what these organizations lack in the area of content development, they make up for in PR.
The solution
Given that, B2B marketers struggling with content development should try to capitalize on PR to generate new content. Doing so could provide the ideal solution. In fact, my experience has shown that once PR is brought up to speed on the goal and how they can assist, they are excited to contribute.
But before you run down the hall to ask for their help, let’s first take a look at how you can get the most out of the resource.
Getting clarity
To start, if you are going to partner with PR, then it’s critical to get some clarity. Specifically, what constitutes content? Good question. And timely too, especially given the development of blended search.
Over the last year, the major search engines have started to display blended results, which integrates different forms of digital content—images, news, videos,—into the general search results. Now web pages are not the only type of content that matters. Instead, the search results landscape has changed.
This is actually a good thing. The change represents considerable opportunity for marketers as it allows them to leverage their various forms of digital content, and as a result, increases their chance to stand out amongst the clutter in the search results.
But for some reason, when marketers think of content, they limit themselves to web pages. This is a mistake. For example, most marketers fail to realize that a white paper is content too—just in a slightly different format—and that if it is optimized properly, it can do quite well in the search results.
But now with blended search, there’s so much more opportunity. Images, videos, and yes, even press releases are considered content too. In fact, a recent study on blended search reveals that of all the types of specialized content now displayed in the general search results, users prefer news items the most.
Success factors
Clearly, the opportunities for content development are endless, and PR is a great resource to leverage. However, what are the chances that the PR team is idly sitting around waiting for your call? My guess? Not very likely. So if you are considering tapping into PR, you would be wise to keep the following factors in mind as you move forward. Doing so could make the difference between the success or failure of the initiative.
Strategy. If you want to leverage PR, you’ll need their buy-in first. To start, discuss your overall strategy with them. Take the time to explain the content challenges you are experiencing, and that you value their opinions in developing a solution. While this might seem like a very trivial part of the process, it’s not. I have seen numerous organizations fail right from the starting blocks because they did not get buy-in from their PR folks.
Education. To successfully tap into PR, you need to educate them first. Again, this might seem very basic, but it is another area where organizations regularly shoot themselves in the foot. Most of the PR folks I have worked with on this were initially intimidated by the task of developing content for searchers. For the most part, I think their trepidation can be attributed to the fact that this is a new area for them. To help them feel more comfortable with the task, provide a few training sessions on what SEO is, what your goals are, and specifically what you are looking for them to do. But keep in mind that your PR folks may be wary that you’ll want them to turn everything they create into marketing fluff instead of meaningful content. Given that, be sure to spend a good amount of time discussing the types of content you are looking for them to produce. Then allow them to brainstorm some ideas; it will get you more buy-in that way.
Develop a pilot. To effectively leverage PR, start small. From my experience, the most successful initiatives start as pilots. The benefits of doing so are twofold: Not only will it help you get it right—by getting everyone on the same page first—it will also make it much easier to create momentum and show the results. This will get people excited about what you are collectively accomplishing, and as a result, they’ll be more willing to make it a regular effort.
Other formats. Leveraging PR for content development also means capitalizing on other media formats. You can involve your PR team in the optimization of additional types of digital content such as videos and podcasts. Many PR teams already create these digital assets for a variety of reasons, so take the time to train them to make subtle but effective changes, such as incorporating keywords in questions and using keywords to describe the video.
Measurement. Last, but not least, to fully capitalize on PR, you need to set goals and measure performance. A good way to start is to work with your PR team and the results of your pilot to set goals for your efforts. Be sure to set goals in terms of pages of content and frequency of update. More importantly, you must also set performance goals. But be mindful that the best goal setting is done as a collaborative effort. Make these performance goals aim for better placements in the search engines, more traffic, and more registrations or leads (some form of business results). And make sure to track these metrics monthly and report back to all involved so that everyone feels as though they are part of the effort.
Overall, if you are a B2B marketer struggling with content creation, your PR team could be the solution to your problem. But to make it work, you need to get their buy-in, run a pilot, and set and measure the goals for these efforts. If done properly, you have the chance to really make a difference.
Source: searchengineland.comNetEdge Computing Solutions Pvt Ltd, a global provider of IT products and services, launches its online B2B portal, The Mall of India, aiming to offer manufacturers, buyers, sellers and suppliers a well structured, unique and manageable web presence.
THE MALL of India is a business to business (B2B) portal aimed at providing virtual platform to facilitate business interactions between the international and domestic community of buyers and sellers. The portal offers value added services catering to the business needs and demands of international buyers and sellers.
With The Mall of India portal, NetEdge plans to create an online trading platform to carry out business transactions smoothly, serving to the needs of the users and meeting their desired business goals and objectives. It aims to provide manufacturers, buyers, sellers and suppliers a well structured, unique and manageable web presence combined with the right mix of information, services and products to achieve success in B2B marketplace.
The Mall of India helps in promoting buyers and suppliers business by providing an ease to use platform to submit online trade enquiries, to search prospective customers for their business, buyer and seller databases, live online discussion forums to participate in issues like Exim, Taxation etc. In addition to this, it also provides a 24-hour help desk to cater to user problems, business information, industry trends and news etc. Membership packages allows users to showcase their products in the B2B Directories, Yellow Pages, Virtual Trade Fairs and Featured shops, thus generating leads and earn profits.
The Mall of India is currently available to customers across the globe.
For pricing or product information, please contact: sales@netedgecomputing.com or (0120) 242 3809 / 3810.
About NetEdge
NetEdge Computing Solutions Pvt Ltd has been offering innovative IT products and services, at accessible price points to clients across the globe since 1992. Its corporate umbrella supports five business initiatives; a product portfolio that features over six applications as well as a suite of IT services. NetEdge is headquartered in Noida, India, with offices in the UK, Thailand and USA.
For more information, please visit: http://www.netedgecomputing.com/
Buysino.com recently released their 2008 summer vacations sunglass collection comprising of wholly new designs in fashion and sports categories.
As an exporter and b2b marketplace from New York, Buysino rolls out its biggest ever fashion trend today for the forthcoming summer season – a whole series of fashion sunglasses. Mainly designed for ladies, these sunglasses feature bright colors and low prices, which available now on its virtual web store.
Currently, there are over 1000 different styles and colors sunglasses divided into 6 categories. They are fashion sunglasses, sport sunglasses, lady’s sunglasses, metal sunglasses, plastic sunglasses, men’s sunglasses. “We have no conclusion that these will be all” said Tomas Huang, Market Manager of Buysino. Inc, “one thing is sure that if this batch sells well, we of course will add on”. Being directly authorized with China manufacturers, outsourcing products and how to maintain product price advantages are what Buysino is good at. “We have investigated and specifically chosen manufacturers to keep a balance between quality and price” The result is though no less beautiful than designer sunglasses, each of these sunglasses is tagged at incredible cheap prices – less than 10 dollars on average.
For quality concerns, the site offers sample order, no minimum order to enjoy wholesale benefits. Fellow fashion do is what everyone does; pick bargains online is not true for every one. Hope Buysino’s marketing tactic is right.
About Buysino.com
Buysino.com found in 2005, a business-to-business (B2B) transaction media company which has been in the trade market for over 20 years. The objective of Buysino is to make consumers’ purchasing from China simple, worry free and facilitate global trades from Asia to rest of the world.
Businesses looking to sell to other businesses will have a dedicated channel to advertise their wares with the launch of a new B2B-dedicated network.
ClickZ reports US digital marketing company 24/7 Real Media has launched a B2B (business to business) dedicated online advertising network.
The ad network will initially operate through four publishers – Cygnus Business Media, Nielsen Business Media, Reed Business Information, and The McGraw-Hill Companies – that will collectively provide access to more than 200 B2B web properties on which the ads will be run.
The websites reportedly attract 10 million monthly unique users, approximately 60% of which are small business owners and managers.
Source; smartcompany.com.au
Winn Technology Group, a leading marketer of business–to–business technology products and services
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:23 AMWinn Technology Group, a leading marketer of business–to–business technology products and services, announces that it has acquired 19 new clients since the beginning of 2008. Contracting with Winn for Demand Generation, Event Promotion, Database Services, and Channel Marketing, these new clients provide a wide array of technology products and services including:
* Authentication/Smart Cards
* Network Security
* Recruiting Solutions
* Software Development
* Banking Software/Services
* Enterprise Asset Management
* Contact Center Solutions
* Consulting/Systems Integration
* Security Software
* Litigation Support Software
* Online Investor Relations
* Information Management Solutions
* Internet Analytic Software/Services
* Telecommunications Equipment
In addition to the 19 companies utilizing Winn Technology Group's services for the first time, another 26 technology companies have renewed their business relationship with the marketing service provider for a total of 45 technology providers engaging Winn in the first quarter of 2008.
Geoff Swallow, Winn Technology Group's President and CEO, commented, "Given the current state of the US economy, we are very pleased with our sales performance to date. Our customer satisfaction rate remains steady at greater than 90%, and our 19 new client acquisitions will help ensure a strong second quarter for us."
About Winn Technology Group, Inc.
Winn Technology Group is a privately–held marketing solutions company headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida. Focusing exclusively on the technology marketplace, Winn has earned the respect of over 600 technology companies, many of whom continually subscribe to its B2B marketing services including Demand Generation, Event Marketing, Database Solutions, and Channel Marketing. For more information, call 800–444–5622 or visit www.winntech.net.
Source: crm.tmcnet.com/topics/crm/
UK retailer, WHSmith, has completed an ambitious project to consolidate its B2B e-commerce network using GXS Trading Grid and GXS managed services. The move has provided WHSmith with a standardised and simplified approach to B2B e-commerce, enabling the company to focus on accelerating its supply chain initiatives rather than managing technology. GXS' global B2B platform also provides WHSmith with support for suppliers that vary in their e-commerce capabilities and technology sophistication; insulation from the complexity of evolving standards; support for multiple transaction formats beyond basic electronic data interchange (EDI); and tight integration with internal systems.
WHSmith had been a long-term user of several point solutions, data exchange methods and value added networks to support its e-business strategy, but decided to consolidate its activities using GXS managed services. The managed services enables companies to outsource many of the day-to-day aspects of managing their B2B integration infrastructure. The system enables WHSmith to automate transactions with their trading partners while shielding them from rapidly changing standards, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts and enabling a high level of process integration and business intelligence. For WHSmith, one of the key benefits of the company's use of the managed services system has been WHSmith's ability to more easily support in-store replenishment.
‘Using GXS managed services to place orders, receive confirmations, and transmit shipping notices and invoices enables stores to have stock replenished on shelves within two to three days of selling an item like a book. In other areas of the business, we've cut lead times for new stock from several weeks to less than a week,’ says Alastair Reid, support manager for the trading and marketing teams at WHSmith. ‘It has enabled us to move to a direct-from-supplier supply chain model. Instead of shipping orders to stores from stocks held in our warehouses, we now have consolidation centres that take incoming orders from suppliers, split them by store and consolidate goods from many suppliers into a single delivery for each store.’
Using the system WHSmith has been able to reallocate staff from processing paper or manual re-keying of data to activities that add more value to the business and make better use of their expertise, such as investigating invoice discrepancies. This has been coupled with greater visibility across the supply chain.
Source: supplychainstandard.com
eFuture Announces Opening of Jindian.com.cn Retail B2B Website
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:32 AMWebsite helps local suppliers enter retail stores across China
BEIJING, April 22 / -- eFuture Information Technology Inc. ("eFuture"), a leading front-end supply chain management software and service company in China and Beijing Wangku Hutong Information Technology Co., Ltd. ("Wangku"), one of China's leading retail business-to- business ("B2B") e-commerce service providers, today announced the launch of a 100-day public testing pilot of http://www.jindian.com.cn/ ("China Jindian"), a jointly-designed B2B website for small to medium-size suppliers and retailers.
"In Mandarin Chinese, 'Jindian' literally means 'enter the store,' which is exactly our goal," said Mr. Adam Yan, eFuture's chairman and chief executive officer. "Over 80 percent of local suppliers do business directly with local retailers. With China Jindian, we are leveraging our strong relationships with China's retail clients to help local suppliers enter retail stores across the country. This exciting development simplifies the supply chain and will also help our over 700 retail clients, which use over 500,000 suppliers and include many of China's top 100 retailers, expand their procurement sources, increase procurement efficiency and reduce procurement cost."
The China Jindian online platform provides a searchable database of subscriber-posted listings focusing on the retail and consumer goods industries. On the website, suppliers can post listings with product descriptions, contact information, location and in some cases videos showcasing the suppliers' factories. The postings are separated by category, brand and location and searchable by retailers, who can post requests for products and suppliers, store information and details about new store openings.
"Our leading position in e-commerce, team of over 100 partners, which have over 2,000 salespeople, and network of more than 200,000 member clients are an ideal complement to eFuture's supply chain management capabilities and relationships with China's top retailers," said Mr. Haibo Wang, Wangku's chief executive officer. "There are millions of small to medium-size retailers and suppliers in China that, while wanting to do business in the national retail market, simply don't have the medium to meet and exchange information with national retailers. China Jindian's user-friendly and reputable e-commerce platform ensures efficient communication and opens the door for future generations of retailers and suppliers in China to succeed."
About Wangku Hutong Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Wangku, through its http://www.99114.com.cn/ website, is a leading provider of B2B e-commerce service solutions focused on helping suppliers to utilize the Internet rather than traditional Industry Yellow Pages. 99114.com.cn is a B2B portal and procurement link connecting manufacturers, distributors, resellers and retailers. Wangku initiated its "Yi Wang Tong" service (a one- stop enterprise B2B e-commerce service package), which integrates the functions of accessing websites, promotion, interaction, authentication and transaction.
As one of the leading B2B e-commerce service enterprises in China, Wangku has received significant industry attention, and has been awarded one of China's "Top-100 Commercial Websites," "Top-100 Web 2.0 Websites" and "Top- 100 B2B e-Commerce Websites" for its success in the field of e-commerce.
For more information about Wangku, please visit http://www.99114.com.cn/ . About eFuture Information Technology Inc.
eFuture is a leading provider of front-end supply chain management software and services in China. eFuture provides one-stop-shop software and service solutions to manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, logistics companies and retailers in China's front-end supply chain market, especially in the retail and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (''FMCG'') industries. eFuture currently serves more than 900 clients, including Fortune 500 companies, over 700 retailers and over 200 distributors operating in China. eFuture is also one of IBM's premier business partners in Asia Pacific and is a strategic partner with Oracle, Microsoft, JDA, Motorola and Samsung Network China. The company has over 600 people and 20 branch offices across China.
For more information about eFuture, please visit http://www.e-future.com.cn/ .
Winn Technology Group, a leading marketer of business–to–business technology products and services, announces that it has acquired 19 new clients since the beginning of 2008. Contracting with Winn for Demand Generation, Event Promotion, Database Services, and Channel Marketing, these new clients provide a wide array of technology products and services including:
* Authentication/Smart Cards
* Network Security
* Recruiting Solutions
* Software Development
* Banking Software/Services
* Enterprise Asset Management
* Contact Center Solutions
* Consulting/Systems Integration
* Security Software
* Litigation Support Software
* Online Investor Relations
* Information Management Solutions
* Internet Analytic Software/Services
* Telecommunications Equipment
In addition to the 19 companies utilizing Winn Technology Group's services for the first time, another 26 technology companies have renewed their business relationship with the marketing service provider for a total of 45 technology providers engaging Winn in the first quarter of 2008.
Geoff Swallow, Winn Technology Group's President and CEO, commented, "Given the current state of the US economy, we are very pleased with our sales performance to date. Our customer satisfaction rate remains steady at greater than 90%, and our 19 new client acquisitions will help ensure a strong second quarter for us."
About Winn Technology Group, Inc.
Winn Technology Group is a privately–held marketing solutions company headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida. Focusing exclusively on the technology marketplace, Winn has earned the respect of over 600 technology companies, many of whom continually subscribe to its B2B marketing services including Demand Generation, Event Marketing, Database Solutions, and Channel Marketing. For more information, call 800–444–5622 or visit www.winntech.net.
Source: pr-usa.net
Availity Expands Licensing Agreement with Health Market Science
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:17 AMJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - (Business Wire) Availity, L.L.C., a leading health information exchange, and Health Market Science, Inc. (HMS), the leading manufacturer of health care provider reference data in the United States, today announced the expansion of their licensing agreement. Having initially licensed information for select states, the expanded agreement with HMS gives Availity access to detailed reference information about more than 4.5 million individual providers and one million provider organizations nationwide.
HMS is the main source of provider information within the Availity® Health Information Network, a secure web portal. Rather than manually tracking down and entering required provider information, customers can search provider profiles in the HMS Provider Master FileTM and segment the data they need by contact information, demographics, specialty, education, and ethnicity. HMS identifier and demographic information provides a complete view of the customer that can be seamlessly integrated with existing provider information.
“We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Health Market Science,” said Kathleen Hertzog, Availity’s Vice President, Business Solutions. “Our customers can take advantage of on-demand access to a comprehensive archive of health care provider information. The rapid delivery of HMS profiles enables our customers to more quickly and easily locate the information they need, saving them precious time.”
Matt Reichert, CEO of Health Market Science, added, “We are pleased to form this partnership with Availity, which recognizes us as the market leader with the most complete and accurate provider information. The combination of the HMS Provider Masterfile™ and Availity’s Health Information Network will optimize customer workflow with the data needed for health care transactions in a secure environment.”
About Availity, L.L.C. – Patients. Not Paperwork.®
Availity optimizes the flow of information between health care professionals, health plans, and other health care stakeholders through a secure internet-based exchange. The Availity Health Information Network encompasses administrative, financial, and clinical services, supports both real-time and batch transactions via the web, business to business (B2B), and electronic data interchange (EDI). Availity is the recipient of several national and regional awards, including Consumer Directed Healthcare, A.S.A.P. Alliance Innovation, eHealthcare Leadership, Northeast Florida Excellence in IT Leadership, E-Fusion, Emerging Technologies and Healthcare Innovations for Excellence (TETHIE), and AstraZeneca-NMHCC Partnership. For more information, including and online demonstration, please visit www.availity.com.
About Health Market Science, Inc. -- The Information Solutions Hub. ®
Health Market Science (HMS), located in King of Prussia, PA and recognized two consecutive years by the Inc. 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, is the leading manufacturer of national health care provider reference data. HMS has developed unique technology and expertise to continuously acquire, analyze, and integrate thousands of distinct data sources including 1,700 primary data sources to create and maintain the single most comprehensive and accurate database of health care provider information available today. The HMS Provider Master File™ has detailed reference information about 1.0 million provider organizations and 4.5 million individual providers, including data about non-par providers, referring, ordering, and prescribing providers that is required for HIPAA transactions.
HMS serves as the information HUB across the health care industry, with 160 customers that include Health Plans, Hospitals, Group Practices, Health Care Information Portals, PBMs, Pharmacy Chains, Pharmaceutical Companies, and Medical Device Companies. These organizations rely upon HMS data to cleanse, enhance, and maintain their provider data files so as to improve the efficiencies of core business processes, including provider enrollment, claims adjudication, claims remediation, provider directory generation, credentialing, and provider identity-proofing. For more information, please visit www.healthmarketscience.com.
Availity, L.L.C., Jacksonville
Tony Shepse, Marketing Manager, 904-470-4984
tony.shepse@availity.com
or
Health Market Science, Inc.
Ric Padrón, Director, Marketing Communications
484-804-2701
rpadron@healthmarketscience.com
You need to deepen your relationship with prospects over time, interacting in a variety of settings, learning more about each other's needs and capabilities while progressing seamlessly from one interaction to the next. And you need to know when to commit more resources to the relationship as well as when to pull back and give the prospect some space.
In the B2B marketing world, this "dating" process is called lead nurturing, defined as the process of building a relationship with qualified prospects who are not yet sales-ready, regardless of budget, authority, or timing - and of ensuring a clean hand-off to sales at the right time. Just as in dating, lead nurturing can be described with defined stages, including:
* The Introduction
* The First Date
* Dating
* The Proposal
* The Wedding
The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) has established a strategic presence in the emerging business-to-business social networking space, announcing today the addition of Boston-based Contact Networks, and its enterprise relationship management (ERM) product, ContactNet, to its portfolio of business intelligence and relationship management services for legal and other professional markets.
ContactNet, the first and most powerful social networking application built specifically for corporate environments, automatically uncovers, aggregates and prioritizes a firm’s internal relationships with external business contacts. Now, determining “who knows whom” is as simple as doing a Google-like search, with no data entry or ongoing database maintenance.
“Contact Networks positioned itself as the leader in this space by virtue of its unique product attributes, its strong team and its proven ability to add value for its customers. With the backing of a trusted brand name like Thomson, this already-thriving product is poised for explosive growth,” noted Thomson Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Mike Wilens. “Thomson recognizes the emerging trend of ERM/B2B social networking, and with the addition of this offering to our services we are setting out to help organizations make better use of their relationship assets.”
To deliver quick, accurate and comprehensive search results, ContactNet casts a wide net, pulling data from address books, e-mail logs, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) applications and other enterprise systems. ContactNet then pinpoints search matches with multiple layers of filtering and de-duplication technology, coupled with proprietary algorithms that analyze more than 37 unique variables. The result is a searchable database where the deepest connections always appear first, which is ideal for:
• New-business prospecting
• Referrals
• Talent recruitment
• Cross-selling
• Event invitations
• Competitive intelligence
“Relationships are the lifeblood of every law firm and professional service organization. Based on customer research, we know that up to 85 percent of outside contacts communicating with these firms are never entered into the company address book,” said Geoffrey Hyatt, founder and CEO of Contact Networks. “ContactNet makes it easy to understand firm-wide relationships, without additional manual data entry or maintenance. It’s a simple yet powerful application that changes the way these firms develop business and market. The social networking wave is just reaching the corporate market and joining forces with Thomson will allow us to bring our extended vision to market very quickly.”
More than 50 organizations, including several Am Law 100 firms as well as financial institutions and consulting firms are already using ContactNet. It can be used as a stand-alone application or as part of an integrated West Monitor Suite, which provides critical market and business development intelligence to support law firm operations. It also can be embedded into a variety of platforms including intranets, extranets and CRM systems.
“Professional services firms know that client relationships are an enormous business asset,” said Mark Messing, marketing head for Weil, Gotshal & Manges, the leading global law firm. “But it’s often underappreciated that failing to leverage all the relationships within an organization can also be an enormous liability. ContactNet makes customer information more visible to the business development process – and increases its value – which is critical when you consider the millions of dollars in potential business that never materialize because of relationships that are unknown.”
Contact Networks, www.contactnetworks.com, will retain its headquarters and team in Boston and operate as an independent business unit of Thomson West.
Contact Networks
Contact Networks is the pioneer and most experienced provider of Enterprise Relationship Management (ERM) solutions. The company's award-winning ContactNet software helps professional services firms unlock the enormous value of their complete relationship network to generate new business. ContactNet is an automated search application that instantly identifies colleagues who have the strongest relationships with a client or prospect. Customers include leading global consulting, law and financial services firms such as Skadden Arps, Mintz Levin, Duane Morris, Sheppard Mullin, Greylock Partners, and Sagent Advisors. Visit www.contactnetworks.com or call 617-329-4300.
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U.S. net textile and apparel trade expanded slightly in calendar year 2007. Total fiber product imports were 19.7 billion raw-fiber-equivalent pounds, similar to 2006’s record.
On the other hand, fiber product exports declined for the second consecutive year to 4.1 billion pounds, the lowest since 1996. As a result, net fiber product imports reached a record of 15.6 billion pounds in 2007, 4 percent above 2006.
Cotton products were the largest contributor to net textile trade in 2007, accounting for nearly 58 percent of the total. Manmade fibers contributed nearly 36 percent, while the other fiber products accounted for the remaining share.
In 2007, U.S. cotton textile and apparel imports were essentially unchanged at 11 billion pounds, while textile exports declined to 2 billion pounds, pushing net cotton product imports higher. Net textile imports were also higher for manmade fibers while those for the other fiber products were effectively unchanged.
| United States Department of Agriculture (Source: Fibre2fashion) |
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SCM 2.0: How i2 Achieves Results at the Speed of Business with Total Supply Chain Management
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 6:35 PMToday’s Global Supply Chains Demand Fundamentally Different Approaches and Strategies to Meet Accelerated Business Challenges
DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Envision your supply chain enabled with the speed of Google®, the agility of TiVo®, and the collective wisdom of Wikipedia®. Global supply chains require speed and innovation, the proven processes and methodologies of the past, and the best tools and talent of today. Faced with an increasingly complex business environment and rapid macroeconomic changes, global supply chain managers require a new approach to take on dynamic business challenges.
As a result, i2 Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ:ITWO) the supply chain results company, is embracing, and further defining, the concept of Supply Chain Management 2.0 (SCM 2.0) to deliver supply chain expertise and results at the speed of business. Built on a comprehensive combination of expertise, process innovation, tools and services to achieve results across business functions, i2 approaches SCM 2.0 with Total Supply Chain Management.
Why SCM 2.0?
As the business environment becomes more complex and macroeconomic changes occur more rapidly and dramatically, the supply chain has become the fulcrum for business success or failure, requiring greater flexibility than ever before. This convergence of intense market pressures and manufacturing and distribution challenges is driving the industry to seek a new approach to increasingly dynamic business problems. The single most critical variable in this new paradigm is speed; increased speed of product and service innovation, speed to market, speed to issue resolution and speed to adapt to changing market conditions. Variability is nothing new, but the speed and volume in which it occurs today has amplified exponentially as a result of the extended supply chain.
Powering SCM 2.0 with Total Supply Chain Management
i2’s holistic approach to SCM 2.0 has several core elements as its foundation. These include:
- Total Supply Chain Management solutions operating in a fast plan-do-check-act (PDCA) paradigm
- Process playbooks that incorporate alternate plays to combat competition and react to unexpected business situations
- Libraries of workflows that can be installed on-demand to institutionalize the process playbooks
- A supply chain wisdom network of experienced executives and first-principle experts to coach and call the plays needed to win
- Delivery flexibility so that solutions can be delivered and operated by supply chain practitioners as a managed service or in the traditional software deployment model
“SCM 2.0 delivers results as your business changes. The business environment is dynamic, and with that, the supply chain must be as well,” said i2 Interim Chief Executive Officer Pallab Chatterjee. “SCM 2.0 refers to the change in how end users must leverage supply chain solutions. Businesses are seeking adaptability, flexibility and supply chain results – fast. Built on PDCA principles derived from Total Quality Management, i2 is defining Total Supply Chain Management as its approach to SCM 2.0. Total Supply Chain Management delivers solutions to make your plans happen in the face of global sourcing, short product lifecycles, rapid price commoditization, and inflated logistics costs, while adapting to supply chain adjustments in accordance with market conditions. With this shift, the amount of value that could be extracted from supply chain operations is staggering.”
SCM 2.0 Highlighted at i2 Planet 2008
i2 executives will discuss SCM 2.0 and the direction of the supply chain industry at i2 Planet 2008 in Phoenix April 30 – May 2. Also during the event, i2 customers across all industries and geographies will present success stories and case studies during general session, targeted industry sessions and more than 40 breakout presentations. Learn more and register at www.planet.i2.com.
About i2
Throughout its 20-year history of innovation and value delivery, i2 has dedicated itself to building successful customer partnerships. As a full-service supply chain company, i2 is uniquely positioned to help its clients achieve world-class business results through a combination of consulting, technology, and managed services. i2 solutions are pervasive in a wide cross section of industries; 20 of the AMR Research Top 25 Global Supply Chains belong to i2 customers. Learn more at www.i2.com.
i2 Cautionary Language
This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including forward-looking statements regarding i2’s solutions, a customer's ability to implement or integrate those solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected. For a discussion of factors which could impact actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed March 17, 2008.
(Source: businesswire.com)
APICS Presents Solutions TO Industry’s Hottest Issues At The 2008 APICS International Conference & Expo
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 6:32 PMAPICS The Association for Operations Management announced recently that registration is now open for the 2008 APICS International Conference & Expo. This year’s conference, which will be held September 14-16 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Missouri, offers professionals the latest solutions to some of the industry’s hottest issues, including new topic areas on Global and Green Supply Chain Management.
Confirmed keynote speakers include John Replogle, CEO of Burt’s Bees and Blake Mycoskie, CEO of Tom's Shoes. The APICS International Conference & Expo will use Burt’s Bees’ and Tom’s Shoes’ experience as a springboard to highlight Burt’s Bees model of earth friendly, sustainable and cost effective operations management and Tom’s Shoes model of global business with an altruistic core. Replogle, Mycoskie and a host of other speakers and presenters, will share their experiences, opportunities and rewards of utilizing green manufacturing and sustainability to increase productivity and enhance their bottom lines.
"The educational program for the 2008 conference was developed in direct response to our members’ needs,” said Abe Eshkenazi, chief executive officer of the 43,000 member, Chicago-based organization. “The topic areas and learning tracks are directly relevant to the challenges and issues they face every day."
The conference is expected to attract more than 3,000 participants, many from the upper echelon of the supply chain and operations management profession, and will focus on providing real-life solutions to operations management issues most important to attendees. This year’s conference also offers eight specific "Learning Paths," integrated programs of educational workshops, case studies, and plant tours designed to advance professionals understanding of core operations management topics. In addition to topic areas centered on the Global Supply Chain and Sustainable/Green Practices, sessions will focus on Principles of Operations Management, Enterprise Systems, Lean Manufacturing, Demand Management and Forecasting, Inventory/Distribution/AutoID/ Warehousing and Professional Advancement.
Utilizing the knowledge of a vast network of APICS members and independent experts has contributed to the dynamic educational and networking opportunities provided at the APICS 2008 conference.
To learn more about the 2008 APICS International Conference & Expo or to register online, please visit www.apicsconference.org.
About APICS The Association for Operations Management
APICS The Association for Operations Management is the global leader and premier source of the body of knowledge in operations management, including production, inventory, supply chain, materials management, purchasing, and logistics. Since 1957, individuals and companies have relied on APICS for its superior training, internationally recognized certifications, comprehensive resources, and worldwide network of accomplished industry professionals. For additional information visit www.apics.org.
SOURCE: APICS The Association for Operations Management
Newmont Mining group executive elected to CAPS Research board of trustees
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 6:26 PM[TEMPE, Arizona] - The CAPS Research Board of Trustees recently elected a leading supply management professional from the mining industry, John S. Gundersen, C.P.M., to serve as a Trustee. Gundersen is the Group Executive for Global Supply and Contracts at Newmont Mining Corporation and has oversight of Newmont Mining Corporation's global supply chain management and contracting operations. Newmont is a leading gold producer with operations on five continents. CAPS Research is a globally recognized supply management research organization affiliated with the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and the Institute for Supply ManagementTM (ISM). The Board of Trustees is responsible for setting overall operating policies and procedures, and establishing key research programs.
Gundersen is also responsible for the strategic direction of global supply chain programs throughout the lifecycle of Newmont's mining operations starting with new projects, continuing through all mining operations, and ending with the closure and reclamation of a site. Newmont's supply chain organization is responsible for annual spend in excess of $4 billion with more than 15,000 suppliers globally.
Gundersen recently led the successful restructuring of Newmont's supply chain organization from a decentralized operational model to a more streamlined and efficient centralized business model. The new supply chain is centralized for all global, high dollar categories of spend. He was responsible for initiating Newmont's global supply management process standardization to ensure that best processes and procedures are being captured and subsequently utilized at all operations sites.
About CAPS Research www.capsresearch.org:
CAPS Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 to provide leading research to our strategic-minded corporate sponsors and to the public. Our mission is to work in partnership with a global network of executives and academics for the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. CAPS Research is jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, the Institute for Supply ManagementTM and over 145 Global 1000/Fortune 500-size organizations.
About Newmont Mining Corporation www.newmont.com:
Founded in 1921 and publicly traded on the NYSE since 1925, Newmont is one of the largest gold companies in the world. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company employs approximately 15,000 people, the majority of whom work at Newmont's core operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia and Ghana. Newmont is the only gold company listed in the S&P 500 index and in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index-World. Newmont's industry leading performance is reflected through high standards in environmental management, health and safety for its employees and creating value and opportunity for host communities and shareholders.
Media Contacts:
Clare Donnalley
CAPS Research
Marketing Manager
800/888-6276 extension 3007
Email: cdonnalley@capsresearch.org
Omar Jabara
Newmont Mining
Senior Director of Communications and Media Relations
303-837-5114
Email: omar.jabara@newmont.com
http://www.newmont.com
[Source: mineweb.com]
Supply Chain Exchange will enable companies to publish their internal supply chain plans onto the marketplace, for their suppliers to view, make changes and respond to. According to
Members include ABN AMRO, Mercator, Requisite Technology, TIBCO Software, Vignette, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Autonomy.
Product Development Exchange and Supply Chain Exchange are available immediately, Transportation Exchange will be available in the Spring. Oracle claims to have existing customers that have signed up but no testbed platforms.
Source:http://www.e-consultancy.com
A new online digital independent news source focusing on the Canadian music industry has luanched in the wake of this year's Juno Awards ceremony.
FYIMusic.ca will provide music industry news, event information, and a spotlight on Canadian performers, says site Publisher and Editorial Director, David Farrell.
FYI launched April 7th, the day following the annual Juno Awards, Canada's music industry salute to its performers, composers and arrangers. FYI provided reports from Calgary where the event was staged, capturing the behind-the-screen dramas and the jubilation of winners and their teams.
The site will be up-dated daily with a weekly summary sent out to several thousand dedicated e-mail addresses belonging to musicians, managers, agents, talent buyers, record companies, promoters, music publishers, broadcasters and the media, site developers describe.
Farrell, a founding partner of FYIMusic and veteran Canadian music industry reporter, previously co-published The Record. He has been reporting on Canada's music industry for over 30 years. Farrell will be joined by Richard Flohil, a longtime music journalist and raconteur. Flohil will contribute editorial content to FYIMusic.ca weekly.
Along with Farrell, publisher FYIMusic was founded by YANGAROO, Inc., a Toronto-based digital media distribution firm and developer of Digital Music Distribution System (DMDS) and Gary Slaight, former President and CEO of Standard Broadcasting.
"FYIMusic.ca will be on the frontlines of reporting on business developments in the Canadian music industry," Farrell added. "We'll also be spreading the word about talented Canadian artists at home and abroad."
Despite ranking in the top six record markets worldwide, Canada has been without an authoritative trade publication for several years. Initial response to the launch of FYI has been enthusiastic with many in the industry commenting that the business is long overdue in having a trade to report on developments and connect the industry coast-to-coast, the publisher described.
"FYIMusic.ca will serve as the information resource from Canada for the entire industry," said John Heaven, President and CEO of YANGAROO, Inc. "Our DMDS technology will distribute FYIMusic to key industry players that use DMDS throughout the country and elsewhere."
FYIMusic.ca is powered by technology partner YANGAROO, Inc.
YANGAROO's patented Digital Media Distribution System (DMDS) is a leading secure B2B digital delivery solution for the music and advertising industries. DMDS is a web-based delivery system that pioneers secure digital file distribution by incorporating biometrics, high-value encryption and watermarking. DMDS replaces the physical distribution of musical recordings and advertising to radio, media, retailers and other authorized recipients with more accountable, effective and far less costly digital delivery of broadcast quality media via the Internet.
YANGAROO's DMDS has made over five million deliveries of over 11,000 songs from more than 500 record labels to destinations which include radio stations representing over 35 US broadcast chains.
(Source: mediacastermagazine.com)
Yahoo CEO: gray areas make foreign business hard
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said on Thursday that legal "gray areas" overseas made doing business internationally difficult.
Yang, whose family emigrated from Taiwan when he was ten, called himself "a big believer in American values" but added: "As we operate around the world we don't have a heavy handed American view."
Different countries have different attitudes toward the Internet with some wanting major interventions and others preferring to leave the Web unfettered.
"We operate within these environments to the extent that the law has any clarity," Yang told an event at Georgetown University, where Yahoo gave a $1 million gift to study the link between the Internet and international values.
"We think we're hitting more gray areas than ever before. I don't think it's an easy question," he said.
Yahoo was criticized for its role in helping the Chinese government identify Shi Tao, a reporter accused of leaking state secrets abroad. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in April 2007.
After the debacle, Yahoo sold its Yahoo China subsidiary to Chinese Internet company Alibaba.com Ltd in exchange for a 40 percent stake in Alibaba.
Yahoo said in late March that it was setting up a human-rights fund to help victims of government censorship. Harry Wu, a former political prisoner in China, will oversee the initiative. The company has declined to say how big the fund is.
In his remarks at the university, Yang detailed other humanitarian efforts that Yahoo had undertaken, including helping raise money for the American Red Cross in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's disastrous strike on New Orleans in 2005.
During his visit to Washington D.C., Yang also met with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a tough critic of China's human rights policies. Both are Democrats from California.
(Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0348043720080403
EC21.com, Global B2B major, Announces Special Promotional Package
1 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 12:46 PMEC21 Inc. that operates one of the world’s largest and most popular B2B marketplace EC21.com for buyers and sellers, recently announced special promotional package for Indian manufacturers and suppliers to help them effectively promote their products to the worldwide Buyers.
Coimbatore, India / Seoul, Korea, March 26, 2008 -- EC21.com, the world’s leading B2B marketplace for buyers and sellers which entered the Indian market late last year, recently announced special promotional package for Indian manufacturers, suppliers and exporters to help them effectively promote their businesses. The company, which made its foray into Indian market in the September last year by opening its first sales and marketing office in the region, provides online marketing services and promotional tools to buyers and sellers to find new trade opportunities and promote their businesses online.
The special offer includes free Online Promotion to all the Indian suppliers who join or upgrade to EC21’s premium membership services (TradeOK or TradePRO) before 30th April 2008, thereby giving them great opportunity to reach and promote their products to millions of potential buyers and visitors every month.
Globally, EC21 is recognized as a pioneer in B2B e-Commerce that helps SME suppliers to promote their products to the Global buyers, and provides an easy sourcing platform for buyers to find and reach new low-cost suppliers. EC21 provides free and premium membership services using which suppliers can easily create their own homepage to showcase products online, locate and contact global buyers, reply to buying leads and post trade offers to sell. Buyers can use the site for free and can easily search for new products, locate and contact suppliers directly, post unlimited buying leads and use advanced e-marketing and communication tools to chat and meet the suppliers.
The opening of new Indian office was formally announced in an official function held in Coimbatore, last year in September. The launch event was attended by over 50 key press and media representatives along with senior Management of EC21 Inc, Korea head office that included Mr. Kim Tae Sung-Executive Vice-President, Mr. Song Young Look- Managing Director and Mr. Vivek Batra, Global Head-International Business & Strategic Alliances.
The company’s Vice-President, Mr.Taesung Kim, says, “Our expansion in India is aimed at making international trade easier for Indian companies and our local offices will provide complete guidance to Indian SMEs on how to effectively promote their products to the global buyers. Further, we also want to invite big Indian buyers and large companies to take full advantage of our Global B2B platform to fulfill their sourcing needs. Our trusted and easy to use platform will greatly help Indian buyers to find quality and low cost suppliers from China and other major manufacturing countries”, he added.
The Indian office based in Coimbatore is headed by Mr. V.Suresh Kumar, with sales and service personnel operating directly from strategic locations around the country. The Indian customers can now directly contact marketing team in India for any inquiries or interest in availing EC21 services and to know more about special promotional package. Besides this, Indian companies can also benefit from company’s popular Credit Report service that helps them to check business credentials of any company worldwide, and to know which company is Real and which is a Fraud.
About EC21.com
EC21.com is one of the world's largest and most popular B2B network of buyers and suppliers, where thousands of new buy and sell opportunities are listed every hour. EC21 provides free and premium Membership services; Keyword & Category based Top-Listing, Online Advertising, Credit Reports, and World Trade Zone Magazine to buyers and sellers to find new trade opportunities and promote their businesses online.
EC21 is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and has 8 regional sales offices throughout China alongwith sales offices in Taiwan, Turkey, India, Italy and Pakistan. During last 10 Years of successful international operations, EC21 has changed the way small and medium enterprises do business. With the trust and support of over 1.5 million buyers and sellers worldwide, EC21 has today become one of the most popular business site with over 600,000 inquiries exchanged every month.
For more information about EC21, please visit http://www.ec21.com
Media contact details:
India Office contact information:
V.Suresh Kumar
Tel: +91-422-4384223/ +91-9944574444
Email: indiabiz@ec21.com
For Media Contacts/ Partnership Inquiries:
Risa Kim
EC21 Inc,
Seoul, Korea
+82-26000-4354
pr@ec21.com
http://www.ec21.com
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Makemytrip.com recently launched Holiday Plus, a holiday tour package product for international and domestic destinations. The package includes pick up and drop (from the customer’s home), air fare, hotel room, meals, sightseeing, visas etc.
Complete tour packages have been in demand in the industry recently. The company has forayed into the ‘complete tour package’ travel segment due to continued growing demand. Sachin Bhatia, Co-founder, Makemytrip.com, says, “Currently, our focus is on holidays. We have both low value and high value packages for our customers. Low value packages are mainly for South East Asia, while high value packages are to Europe and America.” They company has employed mainly Hindi, English and Gujarati speaking guides, who will meet the tour group at the airport. Bengali speaking guides will be available for groups from West Bengal.
The company has 20 retail locations across India, where a client can walk in and buy a package. “Since its launch, the product is getting a huge response. As we have retail shops in India, we get many walk in customers.” Close to 26 per cent of the holiday product’s transactions comes from the Business to Business (B2B) model of the portal.
Makemytrip.com recently introduced real time international ticketing online. The portal enables its customers to block a ticket immediately, by depositing booking fees of Rs 5000. The rest of the amount can be paid by the customer in three to four days. This facility eases the pressure of the hefty amount charged by international airlines. All airlines flying from India are reflected on the portal.
Currently, both the website and call centre, book around 100 tickets each day. According to Bhatia, “It is the beginning; we are sure that our online booking numbers will pick up next month. They should double by next month, but call centre bookings will remain about the same.”
TravelAgentMall.com to enter Middle East, Europe and Australia by June 2008
0 comments Posted by Mark Dev at 9:56 AMTravelAgentMall.com, a B2B portal, aims to achieve a worldwide presence, by end 2008. With an investment of Rs 2.5 crore (approximate), the portal aims to touch a turnover of Rs 400 crore by March 2009.
“Our first priority is to enter the Middle East, Europe and Australia. Once we get in there, we have plans to enter China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, by this year end”, says Vikas Kannan, Marketing Head - Global, TravelAgentMall.com. The portal, which was launched in India this February, has registered over 10,000 Indian agents, already. In USA, the portal launched in March and registered more than 35,000 travel agents from the country.
According to Kannan, the portal has signed a deal with a German consolidator to enter European marketing. Elaborating on expansion plans, Kannan says, “We plan to start our operations in Europe within a month, while operations from the Middle East and Australia will start by June 2008. By the end of this year, we will operate from most countries worldwide”. The portal is in talks with consolidators from Australia and the Middle East and is expected to sign a deal by mid April 2008.
Apart from expansion plans, the portal will see the addition of new features and facilities, this year. Currently, the portal offers only air ticketing facilities on domestic and international routes. “We are awaiting an approval from Amadeus; once it is clear, we will add hotels and car rental facilities, as well,” says Kannan. The portal plans to offer about 6,000 domestic and 15,000 international hotels, online, in India. According to Kannan, the portal is looking for railway bookings, once the Indian Railways grants an API (Application Program Interface) approval. “We will also look at bus bookings by mid 2008, along with railway bookings”, adds Kannan.
TravelAgentMall.com will provide access to special fares offered by international and domestic consolidators. Every agent will be provided with a unique user name and password to login to the website. The portal is a part of USA-based Travel Technology company called Wizie.com.
