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Product finder portal launched

By Our Special Correspondent

CHENNAI, JAN. 19. A business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce website, named industrialproductsfind.com and promoted by India's leading product portfolio magazine and venture capital financiers, was launched here on Tuesday. IPFonline Ltd, will offer features unique to the net and e-commerce.

In addition to core content, industrialproductsfind.com will have news, analyses and features relevant to the vertical segments, technologies, ongoing research work and business issues for B2B users. As a value-added service, general and business news will also be included.

Another feature of the site is a virtual permanent exhibition centre where exhibitors can display products for a consideration. A start is being made with the participants in the INTEC machinery exhibition which concluded in Coimbatore recently.

Inaugurating the site, Mr. S. M. Datta, Chairman of the IL & FS Venture Corporation (IVC), joint founder of the Tamilnadu Information Technology Venture Fund along with the Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO), said the site would be of particular use to industrial managers.

Mr. L. Subramanyan, CEO of IPFOnline Ltd, said the company's site was India's largest B2B portal. Mr. Ravi Parthasarathy, Chairman of IPF Online and Vice-Chairman of IVC, said the site would be of special value to small and medium enterprises.

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