indiamarkets set for global tie-up
Business Standard

indiamarkets.com, one of the leading B2B portals in the country, is all set for a tie-up with a leading international B2B portal in the next two months.

The move to have an international tie-up will help sellers listed on the Indiamarkets.com site to access international markets.

Indiamarkets.com managing director Rohan Ajila told Business Standard that the tie-up with the international  portal would be on a revenue sharing basis and no stakes were being envisaged.

verticalnet.com, alibaba.com, and ventro.com are some of the leading B2B players in the international market.

Indiamarkets.com has also tied up with Home Trade Ltd to offer personal finance and investment services to its clients in the ebusiness centres it has set up across the country in industrial belts.

“At present, we have 30 ebusiness centres spread across the country with plans to expand the presence to 70 by the year-end” Ajila said.

The ebusiness centres provide Internet access to small and medium enterprises and also introduce the enterprises to the benefits of business on the Internet. Other facilities the centres provide include workstations, discussion rooms, training and conference facilities, and office automation support.

“We have been clocking revenues for the last two months and have also entered into strategic alliances with France-based Societe Generale de Surveilance SA, which  ratifies online B2B transactions and brings in the much needed element of trust and also with Dun and Bradstreet for D&B D-U-N-S numbers,” Ajila said.

Both the alliances have been struck on a revenue sharing arrangement and subscription to the SGS or D-U-N-S services are available from the company in a price bandwidth of between Rs 500 and Rs 1,500.

SGS is an international technical rating agency, while the D&B D-U-N-S numbers help companies obtain an unique identification for the company and also be a part of a global database of 58 million company records.