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textileB2Bcentral.com is designed to facilitate communication, information transfer and trade between the various business interests of the textile industry, their suppliers and their customers.
Developed by Australasian Textiles Publishers, producers of australasian TEXTILES & FASHION magazine since 1981, textileB2Bcentral.com has benefitted from specialist knowledge of the textile and fashion industries in this part of the world. The services available through textileB2Bcentral.com meet a definite need for high-quality and lost-cost information and web access for textile and clothing businesses operating in a global marketplace.
A sister portal apparelB2Bcentral.com, covers the apparel and footwear industries and their suppliers, as well as fashion and accessories. Both portals are fully integrated and, together, textileB2Bcentral.com and apparelB2Bcentral.com link the whole textile, clothing and footwear (TCF) supply pipeline from raw material to retail.
The portals have been designed to expand the services already offered through australasian TEXTILES & FASHION magazine and the annual INDEX which has been an essential tool for the industry for nearly 20 years.
The features of textileB2Bcentral.com include: specialist news services, market information, extensive product and company search features (with full specifications possible), a TCF TradeHub offering facilities for business-to-business transactions (sales, auctions, tenders, disposals etc.), product showrooms and sales contact information, discussion, jobs, advertising space and much more. It is also possible to have your own fully functional website located within (or linked to) textileB2Bcentral.com.
textileB2Bcentral.com has been designed to offer a range of options for company and product postitioning on the Internet. The service will continue to be developed to further increase flexibility. However, at the outset textileB2Bcentral.com offers a full range of important information services as well as a fully searchable guide to the textile and clothing industry in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. It is easy-to-use, secure and flexible, designed and produced by people who really know textiles.
textileB2Bcentral.com is a valuable resource that will increase in usefulness, one that can be developed according to the needs of industry. We invite you to look more closely at the services available through textileB2Bcentral.com and to consider the advantages for your business.
The Internet has a number of major advantages for communication and trade.
However, it suffers a major problem in that it is often difficult to find the information you want purely because there is so much information. Hence, the development of portals - communities of organisations/companies with like interests which can be organised in such a way that both retrieval of information and transfer of information can be achieved easily and seamlessly.
With the launch of textileB2Bcentral.com, the aim is to promote a fully functional communication tool for the different sectors of the TCF industries. This web portal is linked to the global industries but has an emphasis on Australia, New Zealand and the Asia/Pacific Region. It will enable the creation of a grand exhibition and trading centre for the industries in this part of the world, which is of course also accessible from all parts of the globe.
With this tool, companies and individuals in the industry can add information, access information and transmit information. They can also display the various intermediate and finished products of the industry, and trade those products if desired through their own website within (or linked to) the portal and within a general marketplace - the TCF TradeHub.
textileB2Bcentral.com has several distinct functions:
Add to a functional textileB2Bcentral.com website by taking up your own domain name with your own specially designed home page(s). Operate your site or sections of it as an Intranet, for your staff's eyes only, or as an Extranet to include your customers and suppliers. The site structures are designed to be flexible.
Many companies in the textile and apparel industries operate very leanly and may not have the people or time to devote to development or maintenance of a website. We can help with any request. Our low-cost services include:
Contact textileB2Bcentral.com
textileB2Bcentral.com aims to provide a working exhibition and trading centre for textile and clothing businesses in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia/Pacific region, an internationally accessible space in which your business can have a strong presence.
Whether your business is large or small, the impact of the Internet cannot be underestimated.
textileB2Bcentral.com gives you an inexpensive opportunity to be immediately accessible to customers who want your products and services. It is a system designed with the diverse nature of the textile industry in mind, with a keen understanding of the pressures on business for information and communication systems which are effective, low-cost and secure.
textileB2Bcentral is an important tool for business-to-business communication which could help your business to be more efficient and find growth in the global economy. We would be happy to explain more and/or demonstrate the features of textileB2Bcentral.com at your convenience.
To contact our representative:
Ring, fax or email Rosemary Boston at
Australasian Textiles Publishers
Tel: (03) 52 55 55 00
Fax: (03) 52 56 16 68
email Rosemary Boston at: roseboston@atfmag.com
textileB2Bcentral.com brings you news of the latest developments in the business of textiles, from company news through to product and marketing developments, industry policy and personnel changes. Produced by the experienced staff of Australasian TEXTILES & FASHION magazine, together with a global network of correspondents, the news pages of textileB2Bcentral.com will keep you up-to-date with the local and international news and events that impact on textile and clothing industries.
In addition to news, specially commissioned features will focus on individual companies, as well as trends in products and technology.... new fibres, new dyes/chemicals, new processes, new equipment, new management systems. Search for articles and information easily.
textileB2Bcentral.com will open with over 100 feature stories from recent issues of australasian TEXTILES & FASHION magazine, all searchable both by title and content, providing in-depth knowledge about companies, management and marketing strategies, product development and research.
textileB2Bcentral provides a range of crucial business related information and services including:
textileB2Bcentral.com already includes suppliers of over 4000 products and services in the TCF supply chain. From fibres and yarns through equipment for textile design and manufacture, accessories, dyes and chemicals, to textile fabrics and end-products, textileB2Bcentral.com will allow you to find suppliers of most raw materials, intermediate or finished products.
Through the TCF TradeHub, you can also sell or source fibres, yarns, woven, knitted and nonwoven fabrics or end-products such as interior textiles, carpets, and technical textiles. You can also sell or source equipment, dyes/chemicals or services ... whatever you need to conduct your business can be done through textileB2Bcentral.com.
Links in the apparelB2Bcentral.com TradeHub mean that you are also accessible to the apparel and footwear industry and vice versa. The whole TCF business-to-business pipeline is featured through the interaction of textileB2Bcentral.com and apparelB2Bcentral.com.
Within the TCF TradeHub area of textileB2Bcentral.com, buyers and sellers can source or offer product through:
textileB2Bcentral allows you to search and find textile companies by alphabetic listing, by searching by company name or by the products you require. Easily accessible and current contact information for all companies is available, or you can find the suppliers of products you are trying to source.
The product listing and company information is comprehensive and textileB2Bcentral.com will be launched with all companies and product categories listed in the annual Australasian TEXTILES AND FASHION Index published in August 2000: details on over 750 companies and over 4000 products. All companies can update their data on-line through a secure password-enabled system.
Companies not yet listed in this directory can add their details on-line for a small subscription fee (A$88, incl. of GST). This fee will also include a full subscription to the bi-monthly Australasian TEXTILES & FASHION magazine, as well as the hard-copy version of Australasian TEXTILES & FASHION Index when next published (August 2001). The subscription fee also covers the cost of your company's own basic five page website (see below) within textileB2Bcentral.com.
textileB2Bcentral.com allows users to search for products and services utilising an easy-to-use menu or by word search.
This section allows users to search for agents and suppliers of particular labels or brands utilising an easy-to-use menu or by word search.
Companies can easily and inexpensively set up their own websites within textileB2Bcentral.com.
textileB2Bcentral.com has the advantage of a much wider potential audience than an individual website. If you want to retain your existing site, and gain the advantages of the extra traffic, you can simply create a link through the powerful search engines of textileB2Bcentral.com.
All company websites are created with flexible features and many options. You may wish to include a company profile, your main contact people with photos and profiles, create a showroom or two, take product to auction or dispose of out-of-date products ... whatever you want to do we can organise it for you.
A basic company website, which is included with your enrolment subscription (see above), comprises five pages:
textileB2Bcentral.com enables you to set up your own fully functional company website at low cost. As well as giving you the basic site as described above, the full portal site will enable you to:
Your company site will be linked to textileB2Bcentral.com, enabling easy access by your suppliers and/or customers, as well as your sales staff, all controlled by your own access passwords. You select with whom you deal.
Update, change, add or delete data on your products, services, profile, people, easily and simply, using textileB2Bcentral's easy-to-use password-enabled menus. You don't need to understand Internet language, write complex coding or pay web developers. Place your own product descriptions, photographs, drawings, define products to suit your own business .... easy to do, easy to change.