Uhuru Design says it will use the funding to grow its B2B channels and launch a new line of direct-to-consumer products. Above: Office furniture featured on UhuruDesign.com.
To source new merchandise and services that appeal to customers working out of home offices, Staples is launching a virtual event this winter where suppliers can meet the merchant’s buyers to bid for their business. But first, suppliers must submit product proposals to win a spot at the virtual event.
Amid COVID-19 market disruption, third-quarter ecommerce sales rose 20% year over year for combined B2B and retail transactions and are on course to surpass $1.2 billion for the full year, Office Depot executives said last week. In contrast, total Q3 sales fell 9%.
Amazon Business is now letting customers automatically reorder office supplies like rolls of packaging tape and toilet paper via a Wi-Fi-connected weight-sensing portable shelf. Above: the Amazon shopping app and the Dash shelf used for stocking paper towels and other items.
More than a decade since its launch, B2B distributor Sustainable Supply thrives by still “thinking like a start up,” says founder and CEO Brian Fricano, who will speak at this year’s virtual B2B Next conference.
Long a unit of Genuine Parts Co. that nearly merged with rival Essendant Inc., S.P. Richards was sold last week in two parts to investment firms, Genuine Parts said this week.
The U.S. General Services Administration has awarded contracts to Amazon Business, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Overstock.com to test the use of commercial e-marketplaces as a secure and modern source of a general range of products purchased by government agencies, the GSA announced Friday.