CATEX is the world's largest Internet-based, business-to-business exchange for insurance, reinsurance and risk management. CATEX, The Catastrophe Risk Exchange, Inc., is licensed by the New York Insurance Department as a reinsurance intermediary that acts in a neutral capacity. The exchange offers global pricing transparency and transaction detail for all lines of commercial insurance and reinsurance. Through the use of XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) technology, CATEX, facilitates the exchange of information between the buyers and sellers of risk empowering them to make more informed business decisions.
- Industries: insurance
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: exchange
- Region: World
Cephren is the premier business-to-business online workplace for the global construction industry. Cephren unites all participants in the industry with the first end-to-end, Web-based framework of e-commerce and collaboration services. Whether you're an owner or developer, architect or engineer, general contractor or subcontractor, distributor or manufacturer, Cephren's online workplace addresses your needs throughout the design-to-build process, enabling you to do business smarter, faster and more cost effectively.
- Industries: construction industry, building industry, construction, commercial building construction, residential building construction
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: workflow collaboration
- Region: World
ChemConnect Inc. is the world's largest global Internet exchange for chemicals and plastics. It provides the only real-time window on the entire market for all types of chemicals and plastics, enabling companies to convert product needs, surpluses and shortages into instant trading offers that reach a global market.Every day, buyers and sellers of petrochemicals, plastics and polymers, basic industrial chemicals, fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemical from around the world, meet online, in real time, to conduct business. ChemConnect brings together three user communities: suppliers of chemicals and plastics, buyers who use chemicals and plastics in manufacturing operations, and intermediaries who assist clients in buying and selling chemicals and plastics.
- Industries: chemical industry, plastics industry, industrial chemicals, agrochemicals, chemical, plastics, chemical,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction, reverse auction, business directory, exchange,
- Region: World
ChipCenter LLC is owned by Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), Aspect Development, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASDV), Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), CMP Media, Inc., and Pioneer-Standard Electronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PIOS). It is the first comprehensive online service for electronic-component information and sourcing. ChipCenter is a new kind of marketing channel that consolidates demand creation, interest fulfillment and e-commerce transactions in one seamless service, allowing engineers and purchasing agents to learn, find, and buy at one convenient location.
- Industries: electronics, electronic components, computer hardware,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: product catalog, business directory
- Region: World
Founded in 1997, Collabria is the creator of the Intelligent Print Workplaceª, a comprehensive set of Internet-based solutions for the print industry.Ê From job creation to job production, Collabria offers the only complete solution for handling enterprise-wide printing and addressing its inherent inefficiencies. Focused on relationship-centric solutions, Collabria provides a no-conflict system designed to enhance existing relationships between corporate customers, their printers, and their print resellers. Marketing and purchasing managers realize significant savings from on-line project management, print ordering and distribution efficiencies. Printers and resellers take advantage of these solutions to expand and strengthen their customer relationships while realizing hard dollar savings from simplified and automated business processes. Founded by marketing and printing industry veterans with an insiderÕs clarity of the pains and challenges, Collabria is funded by premier venture capital firms including Bessemer Venture Partners, Weiss, Peck & Greer, the Internet Capital Group and ABS Ventures.
- Industries: printing industry, marketing industry, printing
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
LoopNet has been chosen to host NAR's commercial real estate website and to grow and develop the site into a worldclass commercial real estate portal. CommercialSource.com is the commercial real estate Internet site of the National Association of Realtors.LoopNet, Inc., founded in 1995, has grown to become the Internet's largest commercial real estate listing service, representing over 88,200 commercial real estate professionals. Founder and CEO Dennis DeAndre believed that the key to success with commercial real estate online was developing a critical mass of listings, which would result in maximum exposure for each property. As a result of this strategy, the majority of the commercial real estate organizations in North America market properties online exclusively with LoopNet. The company is venture capital backed with investments from Trinity Ventures, Indosuez Ventures and the premier Silicon Valley law firm, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.
- Industries: real estate,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: request for quote, request for proposal,
- Region: World
Consumer Reports Online is published by Consumers Union, an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization. Since 1936, CU's mission has been to test products, inform the public and protect consumers. We are a comprehensive source for unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health and nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Our income is derived solely from the sale of Consumer Reports (in print and online) and other services, and from nonrestrictive, noncommercial contributions, grants, and fees.
- Industries: horizontal
- Commerce Types: B2C
- Commerce Services: product review, price comparison
- Region: North America
Contractors eSource streamlines procurement searches by converting those hundreds of calls into one simple transaction on the Web. Use Contractors eSource to identify sources and costs for: Building Materials, Construction Equipment, Construction Finance, Construction Insurance. Contractors eSource matches up buyers and sellers. It does this swiftly, efficiently, and confidentially. As a contractor, you decide whether to release pre-sale contact information to suppliers. As a supplier, you decide whether or not to respond to a request. For both contractors and suppliers, the process is simple: the contractor posts a description of desired materials using eSource's standardized, automated form. eSource matches the request with its database of registered suppliers and sends e-mail to suppliers in the contractor's region. Suppliers respond by clicking an eSource link embedded in the e-mail and submitting quotes. eSource provides a quote summary to the contractor.
- Industries: construction, construction equipment, heavy equipment, commercial building construction, residential building construction
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: request for quote, forward auction
- Region: World
On February 25, 2000 General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and DaimlerChrysler jointly announced that they were planning to form a business-to-business integrated supplier exchange through a single global portal. Through this single global portal, the goal is to eliminate redundancies and burden from suppliers by integration and collaboration, and the promise is lower cost, easier business practices, and marked increase in efficiencies for the entire industry. The need for visibility and collaboration throughout the automotive industry makes the network, technology, and management decision support Covisint will offer immensely valuable to automotive suppliers and OEMs. Covisint will deliver e-business to the automotive industry, using the Internet to seamlessly connect trading partners and integrate supply with customer demand. This network will revolutionize how manufacturers work with their global trading partners to satisfy customer demand quickly and profitably. By adhering to standards and being accessible to registered users with an Internet browser, Covisint will reduce integration costs so members are able to transform their core infrastructure quickly and easily. Most importantly, Covisint will provide these benefits while maintaining complete security and data integrity.
- Industries: automotive
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: supply chain management
- Region: World
CyberCrop.com enables producers of corn, wheat, and soybeans to conduct cash grain transactions with grain buyers via an online Grain Exchange. CyberCrop.com helps producers more confidently market their crops and maximize cash prices and farm profits. How? Bids from many buyers can be reviewed and compared instantly within "Calculate Best Bid", including adjustments for discounts, premiums, and freight. And, CyberCrop.com is not controlled by one or more large agribusiness firms - it is independently owned and operated, just like the producers it serves.Elevators, feed mills, flour mills, corn wet mills, and feedlots post their flat or basis cash-grain bids on the site. CyberCrop.com displays only the bids producers want to see. Producers can direct CyberCrop.com to calculate the best bid FOB their farm, adjusting for the buyer's discount and premium schedules and for freight costs. Producers may accept the best bid as presented, or make a counteroffer. If a producer accepts the contractual terms outlined within a bid, the transaction is confirmed. If the producer makes a counteroffer, then the buyer may accept or reject the offer. If the counteroffer is accepted, the transaction is confirmed. The contractual terms and conditions are explicit in each bid or counteroffer.CyberCrop.com's preview site offers late-breaking commodity market, agricultural, national, and business news. Our fully developed site will offer an industry-leading selection of news up-to-date local and national weather, farm markets - including real-time futures market quotes, market analysis, and commentary.
- Industries: farming, agriculture
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Region: World
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