ITALIANMODA NEWSLETTER The Newsletter for the Users of the ItalianModa Business-to-Business Marketplace published four times a year JANUARY 2003 Issue #7 Maurizio Verga, Editor, info@italianmoda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- By subscription only! Welcome to your next issue of "ITALIANMODA NEWSLETTER". You are receiving this newsletter because you requested a subscription or claimed interest in ItalianModa. Unsubscribe instructions are at the end of this Newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------ IN THIS ISSUE ------------------------------------------------------------ => The new TENDER System (Reverse Auction) => New Companies in the Marketplace => Visitor Feedback: let us know what you think! => Try the ItalianModa ToolBar for IE 6 => ItalianModa as a winning B2B Marketplace! => A new B2B Marketplace of Italian Shoe Manufacturers => The ItalianModa E-Catalog Technology for your Company! ------------------------------------------------------------ SPONSORSHIP NOTICE ------------------------------------------------------------ CARBOTTI manufactures and offers a broad range of high quality fashion and classic Leather Handbags, including some trendy canvas bags. CARBOTTI may serve even small orders (minimum: three handbags for each color) and deliver samples you can easily pay by Credit Card. Visit the new B2B Electronic Catalog of CARBOTTI at http://www.italianmoda.com/bstoress/carbotti ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ THE NEW TENDER SYSTEM (REVERSE AUCTION) ------------------------------------------------------------ The new Tender System at ItalianModa is a terrific business tool for all the wholesale Buyers of medium-large volumes. Try it now at http://www.italianmoda.com/tender/ Do you have a reasonable price cap that you are willing to pay for a particular product? If so, you are eligible to use the ItalianModa Tender System! Make your Offer filling in a comprehensive Tender Request Form, as precisely as you can. ItalianModa will deliver it to a selection of related Italian manufacturers: if they are able to match your price (or even less!) you will get a Tender response. It sounds simple! And it is! A great, new way to save money on your volume purchases, making your business more profitable and competitive. You are asked to Register before using the ItalianModa Tender System (you can even use the Username-Password you chosed during your registration with ItalianModa. If you don't remember it, you may retrieve it following the "Forgot your Password"? link in the Log In box at http://www.italianmoda.com/tender/), including the Tax Code and/or any other identification data available for your Company. We strongly recommend you to be as much precise and detailed as possible when filling in the Tender request form. This will greatly increase your chances to get a profitable business! More, please remember that the Tender System may be used to find the best offer for Supplies typically worth not less than US $ 5,000. Go to the Tender System at http://www.italianmoda.com/tender/ now! ------------------------------------------------------------ NEW COMPANIES IN THE MARKETPLACE ------------------------------------------------------------ Some of the very latest companies joining the ItalianModa Marketplace: FRANCO ALDINI Tailor-quality prestige Men's Wear RICCI Quality Men's Shoes AR CONFEZIONI Men's and Women's Shirts GRUPPO 90 High quality cashmere knitwear GIERRE CRAVATTE Silk neckties and men's fashion accessories CALZIFICIO ALESSANDRA Stockings, hosiery and women's underwear COMPLIT Fashion hats, headwear and accessories COMMERCIALE SANTO STEFANO Neckties and silk fabrics for neckwear CAMICIE ZANUSO Fine cotton men's shirts LINEA P Silk neckties, scarves and fashion accessories DONISIA Women's wear and style/production services for apparel companies FINA Full range of accessories for corsetry PIELLE Great lingerie and women's underwear NEW LINE Large range of sportswear TOGETHER Classic and casual women's wear, branded stocklots Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/storefronts to visit the company Storefronts. More new companies join ItalianModa weekly ! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* Do you want to deliver a Request For Quotation (RFQ) about a product or service to many possible Italian suppliers? Just fill in the simple form at http://www.italianmoda.com/reverse You'll get feedback direct from the companies joining ItalianModa! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VISITOR FEEDBACK: LET US KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ItalianModa is always keen to hear from its professional Users about what is good or bad with the Services and the Business relationships made available through the Marketplace. We strongly invite you to go to this address now: http://www.italianmoda.com/forms/feedback.cfm Please use a couple of minutes of your time and fill in the ItalianModa Feedback Form. Tell us more about your "ItalianModa Experience", as well as about possible Issues and Complaints with making business with Italian Companies. Then don't forget to rate the Tools and Services you found at the Marketplace and give us a few more info! Your Feedback is really invaluable and help us to improve the ItalianModa Marketplace according to your real needs. All of your data and answers will be kept fully confidential and won't be disclosed to anybody. We recommend you to bookmark the Form address and use it whenever you have a complaint or issue with Italian companies found through ItalianModa! Please go now to the Feedback form at: http://www.italianmoda.com/forms/feedback.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------ TRY THE ITALIANMODA TOOLBAR FOR IE 6 ------------------------------------------------------------ Try our new great tool able to improve your business with Italian Textile or Fashion Companies! Go to http://www.italianmoda.it/toolbar now! You can download and install your FREE copy of the new ItalianModa ToolBar for Internet Explorer 6 (Windows edition). The ToolBar is a terrific tool installing in your IE browser. You will always be able to go to most sections of the ItalianModa Marketplace even without remembering its address or run a search in the ItalianModa database when looking for new wholesale Suppliers to source your next "made in Italy" merchandise. You have also direct access to the other textile B2B Marketplaces of the ItalianModa Network! You can even use the ItalianModa ToolBar to run any type of search through the most important international Search Engines (Google, Altavista, AllTheWeb, MSN Search) and Directories (Yahoo) or Metasearch services (DogPile). Simply and quickly, just from your browser program! Install your FREE copy of the ItalianModa ToolBar at http://www.italianmoda.it/toolbar now! *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* If you need to find a product or company and you have no time to do it by yourself you may use the Free "Moda Advisor" service at http://www.italianmoda.com/advisor *------------------HOT TIP-------------------* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ITALIANMODA AS A WINNING B2B MARKETPLACE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ItalianModa is getting more and more international appreciations as one of the very few examples of successful "business-to-business" Marketplace. Many newspapers and magazines (including the prestigious London's "Financial Times"), as well as universities and research panels, claims ItalianModa is a real business tool able to generate leads and transactions for all the international wholesale buyers interested in importing real "made in Italy" textile or fashion merchandise from Italian manufacturers. Even at the recent "3rd European Conference on eMarkets", (December 16-17, 2002) ItalianModa was the sole vertical Marketplace invited to present a paper and speak about its successful model. ItalianModa is offering a growing number of services to Buyers and the Italian Sellers: new exiciting announcements are forecasted for Febraury 2003. Even the ItalianModa Network of B2B Marketplaces for the Textile and Fashion industry is growing quickly: after the Marketplaces in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and USA, new ones will be opened in Spain, Pakistan, and India during Quarter 1 of 2003. The companies from these countries joining such Marketplaces are getting terrific benefits in relation to their export capabilities. For more info, please feel free to send an E-Mail to info@italianmoda.com ItalianModa has also established a new company in Romania to better serve that market through the RomTextiles Marketplace (http://www.romtextiles.com) and other marketing services. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A NEW B2B MARKETPLACE OF ITALIAN SHOE MANUFACTURERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ItalianModa has developed and launched a new B2B Marketplace on behalf of the Italian Consortium of Shoe Manufacturers from Vigevano. Vigevano is a historical town, about 30 Kms south-west of Milan, where there is a well-known district of manufacturers of quality women's and men's shoes, as well as accessories, materials and machinery for footwear manufacturing. The Marketplace is named VIGEVANO SHOES and you may visit it at http://www.vigevanoshoes.com At this time VIGEVANO SHOES offers a large E-Catalog featuring a selection of shoes, components and machinery from the nearly 60 companies joining the Consortium. This is a great source for finding qualified Suppliers, have a look at a selection of their products and make contact with them. Before entering the E-Catalog you must register at http://www.vigevanoshoes.com/catalogo/en/register.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE ITALIANMODA E-CATALOG TECHNOLOGY FOR YOUR COMPANY! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ItalianModa.com company has developed a cutting-edge technology for the deployment and management of an advanced Business-to-Business (B2B) Electronic Catalog exclusively aimed at the textile and fashion industry. More than 30 leading Italian companies are already using such an unprecedented business tool, allowing them to show their products, collect requests for samples, and receive orders. This full-featured B2B E-Catalog is completely managed by your company through your Internet connection and your favorite browser. Despite the outstanding quantity of functions and settings, it is very easy to use and allows your sales department to introduce your textile or fashion products to prospects, customers and agents 24 hours a day. The E-Catalog data structure (Categories, Item Sheet, etc ...) is completely customized for your company. You can even manage very different products from the textile or fashion industry (for example: shoes and neckties) with extreme flexibility. Our B2B E-Catalog technology may be rented or purchased at very attractive rates. ItalianModa.com offers hosting services too, in order to deploy the E-Catalog very quickly and without any trouble for you. If you are a manufacturing company or a wholesale/distributor the ItalianModa E-Catalog technology is your ultimate business tool! Showing and selling textiles and fashions needs special features you can find only in the ItalianModa E-Catalog! Using an all-purpose software for electronic commerce can seriously jeopardize your business opportunities! You may test our technology visiting our DEMO E-Catalog at this address: http://www.italianmoda.info/catalogo Log in with Username: imoda Password: test Please remember this is a DEMO E-Catalog, so nothing is really on sale! Just have a look around and test the many facilities as if you were a customer visiting your next Electronic Catalog! Our technology includes also a full-featured "Back Office" section, where your company has total control over the Electronic Catalog. If you want to learn more about the ItalianModa B2B Electronic Catalog technology and how it can help your company to sell better and more, please feel free to write to info@italianmoda.com now! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 2003 ItalianModa.com Srl ------------------------------------------------------------ List Maintenance: To subscribe Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/newsletter/newsletter.cfm To unsubscribe Go to http://www.italianmoda.com/newsletter/newsletter.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------ ItalianModa.com Srl mailto:info@italianmoda.com via Carlo Moreschi 60 22072 Cermenate (Como) ITALY ************************************************************************* Visit http://www.italianmoda.com Italy's first "Business to Business" Fashion and Textile Portal Your best site for locating suppliers and manufacturers online! *************************************************************************