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As part of our research for this month's cover story on marketing, Electrical Wholesaling's editors toured the Web sites of some electrical distributors and independent manufacturers reps. Some sites we [...]

After 11 years on the road, Allan Stern was looking for a sales vehicle he could drive without ever leaving his office. He thinks he may have found it on [...]

Mazda North American Operations will change its Web site this year with the aim of getting customers into vehicles a lot faster. According to a dealer source, Mazda will link [...]

Pharmacy2U is the first consortium to transmit live prescription data electronically between a GP surgery, a pharmacy and the Prescription Pricing Authority. The pilot currently involves the King Edward Road [...]

Pharmacy2U expects to be the first Electronic Transfer of Prescription consortium to begin a full pilot after it received approval from the Prescription Pricing Authority. Pharmacy2U will shortly install its [...]

Three years ago, when the DAC Group was considering how to get a start in e-business, it had a couple of major objectives. The Wilmington, Mass., distributor of interconnect products […]

Volvo Cars of North America expects to continue as an Internet leader among automakers next year. Phil Bienert, Volvo's manager of e-business and future product strategy, would not give exact [...]

InterCerve Inc. of Charlotte has designed a new Web site for Jeffers Inc., a provider of pet, equestrian, livestock and veterinarian supplies based in Dothan, Ala. Jeffersonline.com brings customers from [...]

Private exchanges, used by individual companies to make supply purchases, will grow in importance in response to a reduced workforce and an increased reliance on paperless business processes, according to [...]

ToiletPaperWorld.com, the online cleaning, industrial and safety products supplier, is bowling over the business world. Large and small companies alike can now easily keep track and manage what they are [...]

* Unified Western Grocers, a three billion dollar cooperative wholesaler, will offer online grocery shopping through a number of its supermarket members to areas across the Western U.S. The company [...]

www.supplyview.com Services of the web site * Instantly locate allocated, obsolete and 'hard-to-find' parts * Post Requirements, get fast responses Benefits for all buyers * Easy to use * Find [...]

New York - Ingram Micro and Tech Data launched offerings that allow solution providers to play in the burgeoning online software licensing market. The two distributors have developed programs and […]

Ingram Micro of Santa Ana, CA, is the first Guckenheimer client to take advantage of the contractor's new agreement with dock3, a Web-based supply service that allows employees to order [...]

... Starting June 5, WEBVAN GROUP plans to offer same-day delivery to its grocery delivery customers in the Seattle, Tacoma and Bellevue, Wash., markets. Repeat customers who order Monday through [...]

AmeriQuest and National Grocers Association announced they will jointly offer an online procurement solution for NGA members and affiliates operating commercial fleets. The service, to be launched in spring 2002, [...]

Pharmacy2U (P2U) has launched the UK's first mail order catalogue for medicines, adding another ordering channel to its pharmacy offering, which has been solely internet-based until now. The catalogue, right, [...]

First launched in December, The Dock is a new Los Angeles-based e-commerce firm with a site (www.thedock.com) for buying end selling new or used equipment of many types, including plastics. [...]

Ground Zero and Incident Command Services (ICS) are two complementary services from Comdisco that prepare and support enterprises in the event of emergency. Ground Zero addresses urgent needs after a […]

For many c-store chains, the move to offering Internet services is a quantum leap No one will ever mistake a convenience store for a big-box office supply store that offers [...]

Schwan's introduces www.menusolutions.com, a new Web site designed to help operators improve menus and boost profits. Operators can search hundreds of recipes, menu options and business-building tips for applications that [...]

What distinguishes the Big Mac is its special sauce. Without the special sauce, you find two hum-drum patties, a sesame seed bun, some cheese and a few pickles, all trying [...]

When Pioneer-Standard Electronics Inc. unveiled its Web strategy in 1998, the Cleveland distributor didn't focus on building an e-commerce site. Instead, the company designed the site around a learn-find-buy-support approach, […]

AAH Pharmaceuticals has launched a Vantage online pharmacy directory, www.pharmacy-point.co.uk. The site uses a search engine that enables the public to search for Vantage pharmacies by postcode, city or a [...]

An administrative law judge has recommended that Verizon separate its wholesale and retail operations, as ordered in 1999 by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Verizon, the state's dominant local phone […]

Wholesale grocery buyers can be a cranky lot, used to spending their days in cramped offices, haggling with equally irritable brokers and trolling through reams of faxes in the hope [...]

Omnexus, the Atlanta-based on-line e-marketplace, conducted its first commercial transaction on Nov. 30, when Technimark, a custom injection molder in Asheboro, N.C., purchased 80,000 lb of PS from Dow Plastics, [...]

Retailers wanting an accurate account of salary and benefit advice should check out www.SalaryExpert.com. SalaryExpert offers the average pay for 30,000 jobs in 45,000 U.S. and Canadian cities, access to [...]

The $20 billion recycling industry is being turned on its ear by the rapid emergence of Internet trading sites, says Robin K. Wiener, president of the Institute of Scrap Recycling [...]

Distributors join online part-quoting service Internet company eConnections Inc. last week unveiled its new online part-quoting service with 10 leading franchised distributors already on board as suppliers. EConnections, founded by […]

ScrapSite.net, an online marketplace for scrap metal, has launched a real-time negotiated sales function. The site allows buyers online speed with negotiation capabilities. ScrapSite, a subsidiary of two-year old MetalSite, [...]

IT MAY BE THE perfect love-hate relationship -- retailers/jobbers and dot-coms. For good reason, retailers and jobbers were leary of these new economy companies entering the aftermarket. When the dot-coms [...]

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A business-to-business online stocking distributorship of hard-to-find items, bestroute.com, Dewitt, N.Y., recently added Ortronics, Klein Tools, Advance Transformer, Carlon, and Osram Sylania Inc. to its list of suppliers. Adding to [...]

The Internet has opened up a whole new way of doing business in the hospitality industry. Anybody who thinks otherwise would have changed his or her mind after walking the [...]

AgWeb.com Inc. has formed a strategic alliance with Tenkoz Inc. to develop an e-business platform that will serve the product supply needs of farmers and ranchers through their local retailer. [...]

Culinex.com, a foodservice information provider, has launched an internet ordering system that works within the supply chain. The system is free for restaurants, hotels and other foodservice establishments and lets [...]

Two meat producers teamed with a foodservice distributor, and the golden arches last week to establish a business-to-business e-commerce site in the foodservice sector. The site will decrease costs and [...]

The shrimp were real, but the auction was virtual May 1, as 12,000 pounds of black tigers from Thailand were picked up by a major US East Coast supermarket chain [...]

Remember when seafood prices were published every 15 days, long distance phone calls cost over a $1.00 per minute -- overseas over $3.00 -- and there was only one phone [...]

Ashland Distribution Co.'s fine ingredients division launched customized electronic ordering capabilities to registered customers in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and personal care industries. The system provides registered customers with access [...]

HOUSTON-BASED SOONER INC., the world's largest tabular distribution and logistics service provider to the oil and gas industry has launched www.soonerpipe.com, the industry first e-commerce solution for ordering tubular goods [...]

Freshnex.com is offering retailers a new way to order seafood, as well as poultry, bison, wild game and specialty produce, through a network that directly links buyers with suppliers. Prices [...]