Here's another one (not sure if this has been discussed yet or not). Very limited in scope but definitely has a target market (http://www.skufinder.com/).
This B2B thing is really flying in all sorts of arenas.
biz.yahoo.com
Sunday May 2, 9:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: 1-800-DATABASE
1-800-DATABASE Launches SKUfinder.com - First
Business-to-Business Internet Product Search Engine
CHICAGO, May 2 /PRNewswire/ -- 1-800-DATABASE, manager of centralized
product databases in nine retail markets, has launched SKUfinder.com, the first Internet
business-to-business product search engine and image/information network. A press
conference about SKUfinder.com will be held at 8 a.m., May 3, Hyatt Regency McCormick, Chicago during the Food
Marketing Institute Convention (demos at Booth 5461 North Hall).
The SKUfinder.com search engine allows easy Internet access to search for product images and information by UPC,
manufacturer item number, brand name, category, description, and keyword, among other criteria. This makes sourcing
product information an armchair activity, instead of requiring store field trips. The SKUfinder database represents a unique,
powerful, open platform resource for the entire retail marketplace.
''SKUfinder.com is the first multi-market source of consumer product information available on the Internet. It provides high
quality images and data about hundreds of thousands of products in categories as diverse as grocery, health and beauty care,
wine and spirits, pet, lawn and garden, hardware, automotive accessories, housewares, and stationery,'' said Steve Kirschner,
Chairman of 1-800-DATABASE.
SKUfinder.com will be rolled out in phases during 1999. It provides a fast, cost-effective and easy way to access a
manufacturer's product information and images for use across a variety of retail, marketing, advertising and promotional
applications. SKUfinder.com is useful for online retailing, merchandising, marketing, advertising, catalogs, category/space
management, in-store signage, ad circulars, kiosks, point-of-sale, nutrition programs, and other computer-based retail
applications.
SKUfinder.com provides product images as well as product descriptions, merchandising data, dimensions, inventory
information, ingredients, nutritional information, and marketing messages.
''The introduction of hundreds of thousands of new products every year, combined with products being repackaged and
deleted, makes the job of maintaining a current database of product information a Herculean effort. This drains tremendous
financial, people and time resources from retailers and their suppliers,'' said Kirschner. ''The exponential growth of online
retailing has further driven the need for a centralized, turnkey search engine and product information network to effectively
manage this dynamic database of product images and data,'' Kirschner noted.
''SKUfinder.com is that solution, delivered affordably, with immediate Internet access, in the file formats the user needs,''
Kirschner concluded.
Established in 1990, 1-800-DATABASE, is a privately-held technology company, headquartered at 5824 Peachtree
Corners East, Norcross, GA 30092. Phone: 1-800-DATABASE; fax: (770) 582-0410; email: info@1-800-database.com.
Website: www.1-800-database.com.
SOURCE: 1-800-DATABASE |
