And neither are certain B2B niches. It all depends on where you look. On this topic Newsletters The E-business Enterprise. But time marches on, and business as usual is where it's at. The B2B fallacy was first to market.
Old guys have a lot of money and brand equity and can provide the same or better service.
Founded in 1927, the organization has leveraged its existing customer relationships via the Web, even offering 50 percent more products for procurement online than offline. Only recently, in the midst of all the hype of B2B marketplace turmoil, a number of good ol' offline B2Bs have launched transaction-enabled Web sites that are more likely to meet their own modestly set ROI objectives. These sites are designed according to the model of their traditional business rather than to the new technological medium. Performance Coating Group B2B commerce site all are going live in 2001. In many cases, they are only the first of a number of similar B2B commerce-enabled sites for addition product lines and businesses which, if you are a procurer, are coming soon to a browser near you.