Aug 15

BravoSolution acquires Mobile Workers

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Bravosolution (IT), a leading eSourcing player in Europe – at least – announced, end of July, the acquisition of Mobile Workers (FR), a specialist in spend analysis solutions.  You can read the  official press release here. I personally think it is a great move: Spend Analysis solution is a powerful tool enabling impressive savings through [...]

Aug 09

cc-hubwoo H1-07 status

eProcurement, Service Providers    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 1,966 views No Comments »

End of July, cc-hubwoo released an update on its midyear results. You can find it here but only in french for the moment. From my perspective, the article unveils the following key points: – 15,9 Meuros Revenue for H1. In line with cc-hubwoo BP, according to thisPress Release. To be honest, I’m quite surprised as the revenue target [...]

Jul 23

You can read below the article published by BUSINESS WIRE and announcing the merger I releaved to you a couple of weeks ago on this blog: CORRECTING and REPLACING Supply Chain Leaders CorMine and Perfect Commerce Announce Merger Newly Combined Company Brings Customers World-Class SaaS Sourcing and Procurement Solutions; Drives Efficiencies and Cost-Savings that Outpace [...]

Jul 04

Breaking news: CorMine to marry Perfect Commerce

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At last! The news is not yet publicly released but is ‘internally’ official since a couple of days. Knowing the strong operational and personal relationships both companies have built with IBM over the past 5 years, we shall probably thank IBM to give birth to this wonderful M$100+ baby who will sharpen the dynamics of [...]

Jun 19

cc-hubwoo versus IBX

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cc-hubwoo. IBX. No need to present those 2 European companies, focused on the same topic (eSourcing and eProcurement) but not yet really on the same geography. Those 2 companies are without any doubt leading the European eProcurement market – at least with revenues hitting EUR 30+ millions a year. Following a similar move (acquisition) lately [...]

Jun 14

Kirkman. Kirkman Company to be precise. Interpellating name, don’t you think? No, don’t be wrong, this is nothing related to the Start Treck series or James Kirk’s adventures, sorry for the fans. Nothing related neither to the Scottish Church (i.e. the english root meaning of Kirk). So what, huh? Here is the explanation: “The name [...]

Jun 13

Which eSourcing vendor is the most popular, enjoying the highest online traffic? I’ve decided to look at Alexa – for a second time – and compare most well known eSourcing vendors’ traffic ranking. Below is the outcome. You have to be aware that some of those Vendors have different platforms available for their customers instead [...]

Jun 11

I’ve fished this news fresh from today. It has been posted here on cc-hubwoo website. The news went fast around as I found it initially on SpendMatters a couple of hours ago, thanks to Jason Busch. Before sharing some of my feelings and first thoughts on the face of it, let me remind you cc-hubwoo’s [...]

Jun 11

Are you still ignoring who Achilles Group is? Of course not! Indeed, a ~30M€ revenue and worldwide leading provider of Supplier Management Information (supplier pre-qualification databases). Achilles’ supplier management schemes speeds up the sourcing & procurement cycle while promoting corporate social responsibility. Achilles’ main weakness is aligned on its key strength, this strength which enabled [...]

Jun 08

Alibaba, the world’s largest online B2B marketplace for global and domestic China trade with over 20 million registered members in more than 200 countries and territories, the famous company founded by Jack Ma 7 years ago expects total revenue to hit US$1.25 billion by 2009. The 1999′s 18-man-startup already reached US$100 million in the first [...]

Jun 05

IBX expands in UK with new offices

News & Press Releases, Service Providers    ©2007 Jean-Philippe Massin, 2,104 views 1 Comment »

IBX establishes new office in the UK and announces 35 per cent growth during 2006 thanks to Portum acquisition, X2 investments and consequently additional long-term deals. Press release is there. Let’s notice that IBX’s growth in 2006 is much more significant than Hubwoo’s (4,6%) although not based on the same foundation even if, so far, [...]

Jun 04

Browsing the web to find relevant information or service providers is a powerful method but time consuming still. Based on this straightforward observation, let me present you a company called S4S, offering a broad range of strategic and operational sourcing services. Their website is well done, their offering compelling and the information provided proves at [...]

May 21

There is an increasing need for corporate responsibility monitoring and management. Everywhere, more and more, it will become a mandatory-standard. Vigeo understood that some time ago and was founded as a limited company under the French law in 2002 and already expanded in Belgium, Morocco and Italy. I guess Vigeo won’t stop there. Initially, Vigeo [...]

May 16

In his recent public press release the 10th of May, Alain Andreoli (CEO of CC-Hubwoo) reported that: “Consolidated revenues for the first quarter were 8.0 million euros, in line with the Group’s expectations. On a constant exchange basis, revenues for the first quarter were flat versus 2006. The company has previously announced that it expects [...]