Q&A: Constant changes to technological systems are a must for global companies to meet evolving customer demands and stay compliant with many nations’ regulations, says Peter Drozda, manager of b2business operations at manufacturer American Orthodontics. He will speak at EnvisionB2B 2023 on ecommerce technology trends for engaging B2B customers.
Founded just over a year ago as an online catalog of personal protective equipment, bttn says it now operates as a marketplace that provides more than 2.5 million products across several healthcare categories to professionals and long-term care facilities.
Dan Renda, head of global ecommerce at Siemens Healthineers, says the graying of the world’s population is an opportunity for its already surging ecommerce business. Renda spoke at the EnvisionB2B conference last week.
Among the hundreds of marketplaces listed in the 2021 B2B 250 B2B Marketplace Report, many concentrate on such vertical industries as apparel, agriculture and healthcare.
Xometry, an online marketplace used by thousands of manufacturers to buy and sell manufacturing services, began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market this week and raised more than $300 million. Pictured: co-founder and CEO Randy Altschuler.
After taking a sudden plunge into ecommerce last year to sell personal protective equipment, manufacturer Bedford Industries is updating its website to handle an increase in sales to businesses and consumers. Above: a Bedford demonstration image of its plastic face shield.
The software giant offers to buy Nuance, the company behind the Siri voice technology, to develop AI-backed technology designed to help physicians interact online more effectively with patients and predict their needs. The deal would build on Microsoft’s efforts to sell more cloud-based software to doctors and hospitals.
Having built its business selling white-label medical devices to distributors, manufacturer Spectra Medical Devices jumped on an opportunity to sell direct to end customers under its own brand on its own ecommerce site. It’s now looking at growth in a new sales channel.
