From the news reports published in 2020 in Digital Commerce 360 B2B News:
TRENDS/MANUFACTURERS:
Protolabs: Redoing the revolution in digital manufacturing
A steel pipe maker connects to oil rigs via ecommerce
Dawn Foods whips up a commerce recipe for going digital
PPG Industries paints a picture for digital transformation
How manufacturer Blount International scored with ecommerce
Alibaba launches a series of 20 virtual trade shows
Unilever’s online food service: a timely shift to B2B and B2C
A petrochemical manufacturer eyes growth online
ePlane takes off as an aerospace products marketplace
TRENDS/DISTRIBUTORS
MSC Industrial Supply builds out digital services for metalworking
Watsco grows ecommerce to about one-third of all sales
Grainger eyes a big future for its new mobile visual search tool
Amazon Business makes it easier to reorder office supplies
A beverage distributor eyes 100,000 ecommerce platform users
A chemicals distributor fine-tunes its formula for ecommerce
COVID-19:
Project N95 learns the workings of a PPE online marketplace
An online PPE start-up comes through for deaf people
COVID-19 moves B2B marketplaces center stage
B2B Next: Grainger CEO Macpherson on getting beyond COVID-19
COVID-19 puts B2B web buyers in an altered state
Pandemic strategy: Blaine Bros. drives further into ecommerce
Q&A with PartsSource: How a medical supplier handles the coronavirus
RESEARCH:
Gross sales on B2B marketplaces will finish strong in 2020
The 2020 Distributor 300: Looking at a digital future beyond COVID
Pandemic strategy: Slash tech budgets, but not in ecommerce
Taking a competitive look at B2B ecommerce software suites
PERSPECTIVES:
Amazon Business is coming for the construction industry: Part 1
Why Tony Hsieh was an ecommerce pioneer
COVID-19 had B2B merchants scrambling. Here’s what they learned.
When to use LinkedIn—and when not—for B2B influence
Online stores level the playing field in government procurement—Part 2
How to spend less to get ecommerce up and running
How to win more wallet share in B2B ecommerce
Amazon Business is Amazon’s fastest-growing business
2020: The year when B2B sellers must step up their game
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