UK. Chatham Marine appoints Miguel Pagan as new Operations Manager

Chatham Marine has appointed Miguel Pagan as Operations Manager.  Based at the company’s headquarters in Devon, Miguel Pagan’s role includes managing the customer services and administration team, and the logistics of stock availability and delivery.  This central coordinating role also involves liaison with Chatham’s design team, factories and suppliers, as well as the organization of UK and international trade shows.                                     

<!–[if !vml]–><!–[endif]–>Prior to joining Chatham, Mr Pagan spent ten years representing key global brands in their respective industry sectors including B2B market intelligence services.  His international experience has included assisting businesses in Europe, India, China and Australia. A passion for travel also took him to South America where he managed wholesale operations for a leading student travel company.

Recently he has spent three years as a business consultant and international business developer for a multinational research company.

Miguel Pagan heads up the customer service and support team at Chatham Marine’s head offices in Exeter.  Established in 1992, Chatham Marine is one of the UK’s leading clothing and footwear designers, manufacturers and suppliers with retail outlets throughout Europe.  The company was purchased by the Stuart Marsh Group in November 2007.

Source by bymnews.com

Buy American Helps California Manufacturers Develop Trading Partnerships Worldwide

The Buy American website, an industrial trade portal designed to promote US-based companies worldwide has released its plans to help hundreds of California manufacturers enter or expand into overseas markets

Los Angles, California 6/25/2008 12:45 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Buy American, an industrial supply trade site intended to support the U.S. industrial workforce and American Manufacturers, a division of the Industrial Leaders Group, announced today its marketing plan to promote California-based manufacturers of industrial supplies, equipment and machinery in markets overseas. According to Simon Bernstein, spokesperson for the company, the site will feature and promote each month a number of California manufacturers of machine tools, manufacturing equipment and other industrial goods in front of its international audience of engineers, product designers, technicians, plant maintenance managers and other industrial buyers.

Bernstein said the site also allows California and other US-based manufacturers to promote their products on-line utilizing the company’s on-line Industrial Supply Marketplace and Classifieds . “Qualified companies are able to post and explore offers to buy and sell a wide range of industrial, engineering and construction products from companies worldwide with emphasis on the North America marketplace,” said Bernstein.

According to Bernstein, dozens of manufacturers and exporters from Los Angles, San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana, San Jose, Long Beach and Fresno have already been added to the Buy American network and are currently being promoted overseas. He said industrial suppliers in all towns and cities throughout California and the United States are welcome to participate by detailing their product line, services and corporate capabilities on the company’s Industrial Equipment Directory.

Buy American is the latest website to be launched by the Industrial Leaders Group, a network of industrial trade directories, portals, industrial trade shows, B2B marketplaces and industrial news blogs for the manufacturing and construction communities. The site is a creation of Donald LaBelle, CEO of the company and an internationally recognized entrepreneur raised in the Blackstone Valley area of Massachusetts, a region considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America.

About Buy American

Buy American is designed to promote leading US-based manufacturers in overseas markets in effort to support the American industrial workforce. The site is recognized as the ‘Who’s Who In The American Industrial Marketplace’ at Buy American.

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The Buy American website, an industrial trade portal designed to promote US-based companies worldwide has released its plans to help hundreds of California manufacturers enter or expand into overseas markets

Los Angles, California 6/25/2008 12:45 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)

Buy American, an industrial supply trade site intended to support the U.S. industrial workforce and American Manufacturers, a division of the Industrial Leaders Group, announced today its marketing plan to promote California-based manufacturers of industrial supplies, equipment and machinery in markets overseas. According to Simon Bernstein, spokesperson for the company, the site will feature and promote each month a number of California manufacturers of machine tools, manufacturing equipment and other industrial goods in front of its international audience of engineers, product designers, technicians, plant maintenance managers and other industrial buyers.

Bernstein said the site also allows California and other US-based manufacturers to promote their products on-line utilizing the company’s on-line Industrial Supply Marketplace and Classifieds . “Qualified companies are able to post and explore offers to buy and sell a wide range of industrial, engineering and construction products from companies worldwide with emphasis on the North America marketplace,” said Bernstein.

According to Bernstein, dozens of manufacturers and exporters from Los Angles, San Diego, Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Ana, San Jose, Long Beach and Fresno have already been added to the Buy American network and are currently being promoted overseas. He said industrial suppliers in all towns and cities throughout California and the United States are welcome to participate by detailing their product line, services and corporate capabilities on the company’s Industrial Equipment Directory.

Buy American is the latest website to be launched by the Industrial Leaders Group, a network of industrial trade directories, portals, industrial trade shows, B2B marketplaces and industrial news blogs for the manufacturing and construction communities. The site is a creation of Donald LaBelle, CEO of the company and an internationally recognized entrepreneur raised in the Blackstone Valley area of Massachusetts, a region considered by many historians to be the birthplace of the industrial revolution in North America.

About Buy American

Buy American is designed to promote leading US-based manufacturers in overseas markets in effort to support the American industrial workforce. The site is recognized as the ‘Who’s Who In The American Industrial Marketplace’ at Buy American.

U.S. and India Manufacturers United By The Worldwide Industrial Marketplace

The American-Asia B2B trade portal Worldwide Industrial Marketplace has published a new international trade report and website designed to connect U.S. and India-based manufacturers, exporters and importers of industrial products.

(live-PR.com) - Kolkata, India - Worldwide Industrial Marketplace, a division of the Industrial Leaders Group, announced today the launch of its new interactive website and international trade report intended for industrial importers and exporters based in India and the United States at www.ForeignTradeExchange.com/countries/india.htm ... According to Mark Wallace, spokesperson for the company, the report is designed primarily to help US-based manufacturers of industrial supplies, equipment and machinery enter or expand into growing markets in India

Wallace said the Worldwide Industrial also provides members and users of its Web site with an Industrial Supply Classifieds Marketplace at www.industrialsaver.com/classifieds/. “Manufacturers, exporters and importers of industrial and construction goods in the U.S. and India as well as all over the world are able to meet and network on-line through the Worldwide Industrial Classifieds trade portal,” says Wallace. He added, “The idea of the site is to help companies develop business contacts and generate trading partnerships with buyers and suppliers of industrial products in local, national and international markets.”

Dilip Behrani, Business Director of the company’s India offices said the two countries (India and United States) can help each other increase their competitiveness in the global marketplace. “The U.S. is still the number one exporter in the world but growing economies such as China and the EU continue to close the gap and that’s why more American manufacturers need to find additional markets for their goods.” Behrani believes India is prime right now with factories growing all over the country in which he indicated are in need of industrial supplies, machinery, materials and equipment. He explained, “Although India is still developing its infrastructure, the country is experiencing positive changes politically and economically that could provide American exporters with significant business opportunities in the near future.”

The Worldwide Industrial Marketplace recently launched a new industrial auction hosted on the Industrial Leaders Group network at www.industrialsaver.com/stores/mmw. The site enables industrial buyers and suppliers worldwide to bid on and offer a wide range of manufacturing equipment, machine tools, metalworking machinery and other industrial products.

About Worldwide Industrial Marketplace

Worldwide Industrial Marketplace is a US-Asia and Middle East Industrial Directory and Marketplace dedicated in developing trading partnerships among manufacturers, exporters and importers of industrial products throughout the United States, Asia and the Middle East at www.WorldwideIndustrialMarketplace.com
Contact information:
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Industrial Leaders
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Westboro, MA 01581

Contact Person:
Conrad Bailey or Rich Milton
Public Relations
Phone: 206-333-0355
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Web: http://www.WorldwideIndustrialMarketplace.com

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India’s Export Growth in April

By Kartik Goyal

June 2 (Bloomberg) — India’s export growth accelerated in April as companies shipped more gems, jewelry, oil and other manufactured products to overseas markets.

Shipments jumped 31.5 percent to $14.4 billion from a year earlier, faster than March’s 26.6 percent gain, the government said in a statement in New Delhi today. Imports in April rose 36.6 percent to $24.3 billion, widening the trade deficit to an all-time high of $9.87 billion.

Overseas sales have risen as companies boost shipments to Europe, Japan and other developing Asian nations to counter slowing demand from the U.S., India’s biggest export market. Increased sales abroad may help sustain growth in Asia’s third- largest economy as inflation at a 3 1/2-year high crimps domestic spending.

Indian exports “are being buttressed by strong demand from emerging markets and oil-producing countries, helping offset slackening demand from OECD countries,” said Sonal Varma, a Mumbai-based economist at Lehman Brothers Inc. “A weaker currency also bodes well for India’s low-cost, labor-intensive exports, notably textiles and leather.”

Exports to the U.S. rose 9.3 percent in the nine months to Dec. 31, slower than the 10.6 percent gain in the same period a year earlier, according to the latest breakdown of overseas sales released by the central bank. India gives a more detailed analysis of exports five months after releasing initial data.

Shipments to Europe rose 25.5 percent in the nine-month period, from 16.2 percent in the year earlier, the central bank said. Exports to Germany gained 29.3 percent and sales to the Netherlands jumped 91 percent.

Weaker Currency

“I am confident that we will be able to sustain the growth process and overcome the challenges we face on account of the global slowdown,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today, addressing a grouping of industries in New Delhi today.

A weaker rupee is good for Indian exporters, Trade Minister Kamal Nath said last week. The rupee has declined 7.16 percent this year, making it the second-worst performer among Asia’s 10 most-traded currencies excluding the yen.

“The deterioration in the external position has been an important reason why the rupee has softened a bit more than the currencies of several of its Asian partners over recent months,” said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, a senior economist at HSBC Holdings Plc in Singapore.

Trade Deficit

The trade deficit may widen to 9 percent of the gross domestic product in the fiscal year to March 2009 and the current account deficit to 2.8 percent, Prior-Wandesforde said.

To help boost overseas sales, the government plans to focus on promoting exports to 10 countries including Mongolia, Bosnia- Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Honduras, Djibouti, Sudan, Ghana and Colombia, Nath said on April 11.

Nath has set a target of more than tripling India’s share of world trade to 5 percent by the year 2020 from the current 1.5 percent.

India’s oil imports in April rose 46.2 percent to $8.03 billion as Indian refiners paid more for import of crude oil imports. India relies on imports of overseas crude oil to meet its three-quarters of its energy needs. Non-oil imports gained 32.3 percent to $16.2 billion.

“The unrelenting rise in crude oil prices threatens to disrupt the development process in a large number of oil importing developing countries,” Singh said today.

Source: Bloomberg.com

The ever-growing market place

Every year, Indiamart.com gets these internal ideas within the company to convert themselves into more than what they already do. Sometimes, it is to do with their online presence. Some forces declare that they should always have more online payment systems and henceforth convert themselves into an also B2C company. The highly successful B2B portal running on a highly data intensive Oracle database, has got two more feathers in its cap.

One, it has established itself as an unparalleled platform for B2B players and has as a result become a focused platform for advertisers to high income small and medium enterprises. Two, it has achieved to establish the number one gifts portal in the world’s virtual space. Coming back to the other feather in Indiamart’s cap; Indiamart’s specialised focus on small and medium enterprises have borne fruit.

Microsoft Corporation India has chosen Indiamart’s home page to advertise on the benefits of legal Microsoft Software. Microsoft Corporation India has gone through many phases regarding their presence in India and Asia. In the beginning they had even encouraged piracy by turning a blind eye so that Windows becomes all-compassing as far as the operating system industry goes. Now with a new CEO at the helm it has embarked on a campaign to weed out all pirated versions of Windows in India.

One such effort is to advertise on the home page of portals such as Indiamart to reach the maximum relevant target audience. Even the ad is telling of Microsoft’s sense of communication and design. It says in very few words: “Use Original Microsoft Software” and then five options are given. They are: With a new PC, Buy Online, Dial-a-software , Locate a store and Volume License. Once you have chosen the route you want to take, the site takes you to the relevant area where you can pursue the purchase.

Started with an objective of managing online media for the benefit of businesses, Indiamart Intermesh Ltd. (IIL) has always seen Internet as a business facilitator rather than a technology phenomenon. In fact, the company, which considers itself to be a business promotion agency focussing on small and medium enterprises (SMEs), is one of the two dotcom companies in the B2B model that not only survived the dotcom bust but also is raking in the profits. The other company is other than trade-india .com, which is half the size of Indiamart.

“Our success mantra for surviving the dotcom bust is that we relied more on direct sales rather than doing million-dollar advertising campaigns. Nor did we have any investor putting in millions in our company,” says Brijesh Agrawal, COO, Indiamart. In fact, what explains the company’s notable presence in India is that when most of the dotcoms got carried away in the advertising frenzy Indiamart’s relied more on direct marketing; its sales team went knocking on doors of traders convincing hem to put up catalogues on their portal.

“What a B2B portal needs is a strong buyer-seller base and word of mouth marketing. How we’ve managed to so is through direct sales, through word of mouth promotion and by participating in international trade shows,” Agrawal says. Besides, the company plans to launch two trade publications by August this year. “For a B2B portal it’s important to educate suppliers on the benefits of E-commerce . Hence our initiative to launch trade magazines so that we can educate sellers of the benefits of E-commerce as well as keep them abreast of the latest trends in the field,” says Agrawal.

Source: economictimes

Precision Consultants launches an online B2B portal

Precision Consultants has created an online B2B portal for SMBs, which will automatically inform the solution providers whenever new requirements are posted on the portal and are introduced to the clients matching their profiles.

PRECISION CONSULTANTS created a portal for Server Message Block (SMB), where they can post their requirements, find a right solution provider, and also post solutions they offer. The portal has 20,000 information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITES) solution providers registered and categorised based on their expertise. When a requirement is posted on the portal, partners with requisite expertise are informed and introduced to the clients.

One of the factors behind the success of the web has been online collaboration. A relatively small company, known as Precision Consultants with 25 employees and annual turnover of INR 70 lakhs, realised that there is a huge opportunity for collaboration among SMBs in India and thus created an online portal.

For non-IT SMBs, creating an in-house project and implementing it can be tedious as it is not a part of their core business, while SMBs offering IT solutions sometimes find it hard to reach the right SMBs looking for solutions.

The online portal known as Indianitsolutions.com is a business-to-business (B2B) platform, aiming at solving this problem of SMBs and is conceptualised for helping them reach out to the global industry.

The portal has been created on .NET and Microsoft Structured Query Language (MS SQL) server. It has two main target audiences: solution providers and solution seekers.

Solution providers are basically SMB companies providing solutions to other SMBs. According to Precision Consultants, the portal has approximately 20,000 IT and ITES solution provider companies registered and categorised based on their expertise.

They are automatically informed whenever new requirements are posted on the portal matching solution provider’s profile.

Solution providers can go for a free listing on the portal or become a consulting partner of Precision Consultants or even a lifetime member of the portal.

When opting for consulting partner or lifetime partner option, solution providers subscribe to portal services and their profile solutions, services, and products are displayed on the portal.

They are provided login information for the portal through which the solution providers can update their profiles’ information anytime on their own. They can send and receive messages directly on the portal and a history of all exchanges between them and their clients is also maintained.

As soon as a requirement is posted on the portal, it is immediately categorised. If any of the registered partners have the requisite expertise, they are immediately informed and introduced to the client or consultant directly, so that there is no loss of time in proceeding with the response. Precision Consultants acts as a point of escalation for both solution seekers and solution providers in case of any issues. In case no partner suiting the needs of the client is found, requirements of the project is activated on the portal and mails are sent to all solution providers (free listing) informing them about the requirement. A list of such solution providers with their contact details is provided to the client and consultant so that they can contact them directly.

The portal allows partners to check and track the number of hits their account is getting on the portal and thereby, decide whether to upgrade or not.

Source: merinews

Business is booming for SA supply chain

Despite the tendency of the media and the SA public to focus on the negative, large-scale infrastructure projects continue to forge ahead and investment continues to flow.

For those in the supply chain industry, this means an abundance of opportunities as a real enabler of economic growth.

“These are exciting times for those in the supply chain game,” said John van Wyk, director of sales and marketing at Barloworld Logistics. “We may be a small contributor to global GDP, but Africa is going through a rebirth and the forward-thinking players have great opportunities for trade.”

Barloworld Logistics has produced its 2008 supplychainforesight report, which focused on supply chain capability of local companies and the level of complexity their supply chains face. The report found a significant correlation between supply chain reform and business success. Most often, reform involved a re-evaluation of supplier and customer relationships in facing up to growth and globalisation imperatives.

“The companies that mastered complexity were usually early adopters who identified the pockets of opportunity that exist for those operating out of Africa. Those who built up supply chains early have benefited. For latecomers, there are choices — accept a move to complexity and invest in skills, or focus on being strong locally in their own markets. Playing globally requires investing in greater capability to avoid marginalisation,” said Van Wyk.

“The perennial challenge is forecasting and planning, and the better players excel in this area. Companies that plan properly are best placed to take advantage of market conditions, instead of being reactive. The reality is that too many companies focus on operational performance only,” he added. — Brendan Peacock

Source: thetimes

Fashion Stylists - The Emerging Class in the Fashion Industry

Want to change the way you look? Want some trendy clothes for the season? Never seem to know what to buy and what will look good on you? Hire the services of a fashion stylist.

Fashion stylist – a word unheard of till recently - is one of the emerging professions in the fashion world globally. Who is a fashion stylist? A ‘fashion stylist’, as the name suggests, works with fashion trends to create a distinct style for a particular individual. The individual can be anyone from a model or a celebrity to a pressed-for-time business person or just anyone who wishes to create a distinct image of himself or herself.

Tasks such as keeping track of the latest trends in fashion, maintaining a network of contacts, deciding what would look good on people, finding suitable dresses and accessories and either hiring or purchasing them, helping people build a wardrobe as well as dressing up people fall under the purview of a fashion stylist.

The services of fashion stylists are generally employed by newspapers, magazines and advertising agencies. In this case, they are required to dress up the models for shoots. A major part of the job involves planning what would look good on each model, deciding from where to buy or hire these dresses and accessories depending on the budget, bringing them to the shoot and actually dressing up the models. They are in charge of generating the kind of image that the newspaper, magazine or advertising agency wishes to portray.

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Ezeego1.com ties up with redBus to offer bus tickets online

Ezeego1.com, the travel meta-search site, has tied up with redBus (www.redBus.in ), the largest consolidator of bus operators (over 270) to provide bus bookings on a real-time basis on its site. Customers can now book bus tickets on more than 3,600 bus routes across the country.

Speaking on the launch, Ms Neelu Singh, COO, ezeego1.com said, “We have always been pioneers in introducing new services and in redBus we found a unique opportunity as it would provide our customers one more option for their travel needs.”

Re-affirming redBus” partnership, Charan Padmaraju, Co-founder redBus, stated that, “redBus found great synergy with ezeego for launching the bus service on their website because we noticed that there are many customers who fly to a particular destination and then take a Volvo bus to cover the last leg due to the lack of airport facilities in some towns. This partnership is to add value to such customers and help them plan their entire trip in one go.”

The unique aspect of redBus service is that it allows a passenger the flexibility in terms of choosing the type of bus (A/C, Volvo, non A/C or Sleeper), seat preference and pick-up and drop points.

Ezeego1.com, is one of its kind virtual travel market-place that offers all travel related services. On one hand are the suppliers i.e. the airlines, hotels, tour operators, transporters, insurance companies, the forex dealers and on the other are the customers, both B2B and B2C. The portal is a Travel Meta Search Site where the consumer gets real time information and transaction capability online. It uses the best technology platform in the Indian travel industry.

Ezeego1.com offers a real time web based booking engine which is seamlessly integrated to the mid and back office. It also employs a unique Single Window platform for multiple services, so one does not have to enter and exit different systems. It is the only reservation system that offers a dynamic packaging of all services with real-time inventory.

Ezeego1.com has strong online and offline fulfilment systems, different modes of delivery and collections, which help cater to the customer in any part of India. The portal has tied up with various payment gateway options.

redBus ( www.redBus.in) is India’s first and largest online bus tickets company. It has a national presence, with its headquarters at Bangalore. redBus can be accessed on www.redBus.in or at any of their 9 call centers in Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Vijayawada or Vizag.

Customers get the advantage of choosing their seats online, getting tickets home delivered for over 270 bus operators and over 3600 routes in the country.