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We want to remain a B2B marketplace: The Economic Times (25 November, 2007)
Indiamart is not on the lines of SAP, Commerce One or eBay; neither in terms of business model nor in terms of revenues. Last business fiscal, the company clocked Rs 28 crore turnover. So why doesn't it diversify and introduce new products? The answer to that is also the USP of the company...

Many pronged approach to B2B: The Economic Times (09 September, 2007)
IndiaMART InterMESH Ltd. (IIL) is venturing into print medium and is doing it at a fast pace. They launched the 'Apparel Sourcing Guide' at North America's largest apparel and fabric sourcing event 'Sourcing at MAGIC', in August end...

Spreading the net wide: The Economic Times (06 August, 2007)
The Net casted its net on him, and he became an ally in casting it on others. "I had a dream of connecting my country to the outside world", says Dinesh Agarwal, 37, the founder CEO of India's one of the biggest B2B portals Indiamart.com...

SMEs set to spend $8 bn on IT infra this fiscal: Rediff.com (02 August, 2007)
The Indian SME segment can offer huge returns to IT companies. The sheer number of SMEs, around 8 million, make this sector a good bet for IT firms...

SMEs set to spend $8 bn on IT infra this fiscal: Business Standard (02 August, 2007)
The Indian SME segment can offer huge returns to IT companies. The sheer number of SMEs, around 8 million, make this sector a good bet for IT firms.

IndiaMART.com to launch B2B source guides: The Economic Times (28 July, 2007)
New Delhi, July 28: After 11 years in Business 2 Business web solutions, IndiaMART.com is all set to launch a series of B2B source guides.The IndiaMART sourcing guides will provide supplier information in specialized areas such as apparel, jewelery, handicrafts and industrial products...

IndiaMART Sourcing Guide takes Indian SMEs to Global Buyer: NavBharat Times (24 July, 2007)
A special coverage in a renowned Hindi daily NAVBHARAT TIMES...

IndiaMART plans supplier info guide: The Times of India (24 July, 2007)
After successfully placing Indian SMEs on the global B2B map for 11 years, IndiaMART now plans to take Indian exporters, manufacturers & suppliers a step further by launching a series of Sourcing Guides for global buyers...

IndiaMART.com Reverses Indian Media Trend: Yahoo Finance(23 July, 2007)
After 11 years of path-breaking success in placing Indian SMEs on the global B2B map, IndiaMART is soon going to take Indian exporters, manufacturers & suppliers a step further by launching a series of Sourcing Guides for global buyers...

IndiaMART.com Reverses Indian Media Trend: Forbes.com (23 July, 2007)
After 11 years of path-breaking success in placing Indian SMEs on the global B2B map, IndiaMART is soon going to take Indian exporters, manufacturers & suppliers a step further by launching a series of Sourcing Guides for global buyers...

IndiaMART.com Reverses Indian Media Trend: The Telegraph (23 July, 2007)
After 11 years of path-breaking success in placing Indian SMEs on the global B2B map, IndiaMART is soon going to take Indian exporters, manufacturers & suppliers a step further by launching a series of Sourcing Guides for global buyers...

IndiaMART.com Reverses Indian Media Trend: NDTV Profit (23 July, 2007)
After 11 years of path-breaking success in placing Indian SMEs on the global B2B map, IndiaMART is soon going to take Indian exporters, manufacturers & suppliers a step further by launching a series of Sourcing Guides for global buyers...

Things looking up in B2C space: Expresscomputeronline.com (20 July, 2007)
Despite being termed a non-starter around two years back with a sceptical audience not very confident of the deliverables, B2C (business to customer) e-commerce seems to have finally found its way into the Indian shopper’s wallet...

E-Business Roundup: ContentSutra.com (11 June, 2007)
Says Dinesh Agarwal, MD of Indiamart.com: “High speed and quality Internet access is still a distant dream, especially at places where SMEs are concentrated.”

‘Net’ Gains, Gross Marginsy: The Economic Times (11 June, 2007)
Says indiamart.com’s managing director Dinesh Agarwal: “Though the share of online trade is minuscule in the national and international trade basket, most companies, on an average, use online market places for 15-20% of their overall business.”

Ready for ‘screen’ shopping?: The Financial Express (13 May, 2007)
After launching its website in October 2000, Nirulas.com too is revamping its online store with assistance of Indiamart...

Developing India Online: Business Money (April, 2007)
An internet business that started with the advent of the Internet in India in 1996, last year completed 10 successful years of sustained profitable growth...

Agents Of Change - Dinesh Agarwal: The IndusView Publication (April, 2007)
At a time when the Indian dotcom industry was going through a bad phase with many dotcom companies shutting shop in 1999, IndiaMART, the three year old venture of computer science engineer Dinesh Agarwal, was the single profit-making dotcom in the country...

Indiamart to enter global B2B arena: The Economic Times (25 March, 2007)
Started with an objective of managing online media for the benefit of businesses, Indiamart Intermesh Ltd. (IIL) has always seen Internet as a business facilitator rather than a technology phenomenon...

E-commerce may vault to Rs 9,500 crore in 2007: BUSINESS STANDARD (02 December, 2006)
Over Rs 5,000 crore worth of business (domestic and international) materialised through leads generated by Indiamart.com during the last one year. ...

Indian Web sites go with the flow: CNN.com (26 June, 2006)
Brijesh Agarwal of Indiamart, a company offering business solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises, says he has had mixed results on the five sites that his company has designed according to vaastu principles...

Vaastu, Feng Shui: How they influence websites: HINDUSTAN TIMES (12 June, 2006)
Cutting-edge technology is increasingly falling back on ancient knowledge systems or so it seems, with Vaastu and Feng Shui experts promising help to ensure more hits and visiblity to website designers and clients...

MIND YOUR BUSINESS: SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE (26 April, 2006)
...Through Web sites like www.indiamart.com, you can find similar businesses and see how they present themselves to potential clients...

IndiaMART completes a decade of success: AGENCY FAQs (12 April, 2006)
IndiaMART.com, one of India’s oldest portals, has completed ten years of operation. The online business-to-business portal between Indian suppliers and global buyers claims that it has crossed the 10,000 client mark at the same time...

IndiaMART Completes Ten Years In India: EFY NEWS NETWORK (10 April, 2006)
IndiaMart has completed ten successful years of sustained profitable growth.... The company is also planning to hire 300 professionals....

Cool trends in India's ICE sector: BUSINESS STANDARD (07 April, 2006)
Business worth over Rs 5,000 crore {Rs 50 billion (domestic and international)} materialised through leads generated by Indiamart.com during the last one year....

All`s not well with E-commerce: BUSINESS STANDARD (21 December 2005)
Dinesh Agarwal, Founder and CEO, Indiamart.com, says, “The main speed-breakers include a long pending requirement of clarification on issues like sales tax and service tax for online transactions"...

Indians Acquire E-com Habit: BUSINESS STANDARD (20 December 2005)
Over Rs 5,000 crore worth of business generated by Indiamart.com during the last one year.

Small units of all lands unite on Indiamart: ECONOMIC TIMES (18 February 2005)
WHAT do Jain Scientific Glass Works in Ambala, Shingora Shawls in Ludhiana, GNA Axles in Hoshiarpur and Sareko Tools in Jalandhar have in common? From glass works to shawls to axles to hand tools, what could be their eeting point apart from the Punjab-Haryana belt that they operate from? One answer is that they are all part of the Indian small and medium enterprises (SME) network with a finger in the world wide web. But a more accurate answer will lead you to a website: Indiamart.com.

IndiaMART became the first dot com company: DALAL STREET (27 December 2004)
IndiaMART became the first dot com company to receive ISO 9001: 2000 certification for overall quality management and the organization's ability to successfully' meet customer, regulatory and statutory requirements'.

The online hammer...: BUSINESS LINE (25 December 2004)
Indiamart is a Web services company with B2B focus that caters to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). According to Amit Jain, Head, e-Business, Indiamart Intermesh Ltd., the site has over 6,000 clients and runs an online directory, trade auction, tender-notification related services and also provides design, development and promotion services.

Matchmaking - India On-line B2B: DALAL STREET (15 November 2004)
It It is a highly cost efficient way to reach out to global buyers and suppliers. It is the e-marketplace working as an interactive hub for Indian suppliers and global buyers

IndiaMART: Opening doors to the Indian market: AGENCY FAQs (June 2003)
When Dinesh Agarwal started off his Internet venture in 1996, he couldn't have anticipated the overwhelming success that awaited him. Seven years on, as one of the first profit making dotcom ventures in the country, IndiaMART's journey is a lesson in enterprise.

Wake Of The Flood…: BUSINESS TODAY (15 September 2002)
ALLITERATIVE APPEAL APART, STUDYING DELHI'S dotcom detritus can be an enlightening experience. This is just a reporter's informed (Ha!) opinion, but at the peak of the hype cycle it was India's capital city that hosted the dotcoms with the most harebrained business models.

IndiaMART.com's successful business model featured on CNBC as analysed by McKinsey. (21 July 2001)
CNBC: It seems that not all dotcoms have been affected by the slowdown. Strange as it may sound, a few websites are actually making profits! Namarata Tandon caught up with one such dotcom- IndiaMART, and found out what makes it tick.