Marketplace serving farmers with auctions, classifieds, information. Buy and sell equipment, supplies, tools, produce, feed, livestock, etc.
- Industries: N/A
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction,
- Region: World
A Complete Marketplace For All Participants In Agriculture, Where Crop Producers And Livestock Farmers Can Come Together And Do Business Without Having To Step A Foot Off Their Farms.Farms.com was started in 1995 by cattle farmer Ben Zaitz. Zaitz grew up on a dairy farm and was dissatisfied as hard times hit the dairy business. He had a vision of creating," a complete marketplace for all participants in agriculture, where crop producers and livestock farmers could come together and do business without having to step a foot off their farms." Some of Zaitz's dairy business buddies poked gentle fun when he developed his first Web site called COW (Cattle Offerings Worldwide), which displayed classified ads for cattle. Not a lot of farmers were hooked up to the Internet four years ago. Now its estimated that up to 60% of family farms are online.COW has since become Farms.com, which provides an arena for real-time farm auctions and trading. Close to 100,000 farmers and people in agribusiness use this site every month. Millions of dollars in cattle, agricultural chemicals, pigs, feed & grain commodities, poultry and egg products, and animal healthcare products are traded every month.Forrester Research of Cambridge, Mass, a leading Internet analyst, in its report Resizing Online Business Trade, predicts that B2B (Business to Business) e-commerce will hit a total of $1.3 trillion by 2004, accounting for 9.4% of total U.S. business sales. Varda Lief, a senior analyst at Forrester specializing in e-commerce, says B2B transactions will far surpass business-to-consumer deals and dwarf giants like eBay and Amazon.com in revenue and sales.
- Industries: farming, agriculture, farm equipment, food, agriculture,
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction, business directory, news, exchange,
- Region: World
Fasturn was founded to transform the way buyers and sellers in the apparel industry meet and manage their transactions. Until recently, widely dispersed marketplaces have made it difficult for apparel companies to access suppliers and manage transactions at the speed demanded by today's fast-moving fashion industry. Now Fasturn gives apparel-industry buyers and sellers the essential tools, services, and information they need to do business around the world. With the communication and negotiation power of Fasturn, users can save money, reduce transaction time, and exchange useful information-all of which mean higher-quality goods at a lower cost. Buying and SellingFasturn's sophisticated, industry-specific tools let users source goods from qualified facilities worldwide. Users can also participate in sales or auctions held in Fasturn's wholesale marketplace, or view sellers' goods in private virtual showrooms.
- Industries: apparel
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: forward auction, request for quote
- Region: World
FerrousExchange Inc (www.FerrousExchange.com) is providing the steel industry with the first global electronic exchange to offer real-time trading integrated with financial and logistics services. This exchange is a highly efficient e-commerce platform that facilitates the buying and selling of iron and steel products as well as the procurement of related services over the Internet. FerrousExchange, which has several prominent individual, institutional and industry investors, including Ispat International and Gibraltar Steel, currently has operations in New York, Pittsburgh, Singapore, London and Genoa.
- Industries: steel, metal
- Commerce Types: B2B
- Commerce Services: exchange, forward auction, request for quote
- Region: World
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