ADVISORY/ Keith T. Brown, founder and chairman of BuildNet, Inc., to present at the Thomas Weisel B2B eCommerce Conference.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Jan. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Event: Keith T. Brown, founder and chairman of BuildNet, Inc., to present at the Thomas (language) Thomas - A language compatible with the language Dylan(TM). Thomas is NOT Dylan(TM). The first public release of a translator to Scheme by Matt Birkholz, Jim Miller, and Ron Weiss, written at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory runs Weisel B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business eCommerce Conference Location: Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New Day/Time: January 18, 2000, at 8:00 a.m. Keith T. Brown, founder and chairman of BuildNet, Inc. will be presenting, "The BuildNet Story" at the Thomas Weisel B2B eCommerce Conference. The presentation features insight into how BuildNet's vision of e-business is changing the face of the residential home building industry. The session will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, January 18, 2000, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. Brown and BuildNet have gained the support of private placement firms, industry gurus and members of the building community and will begin roll out of the company's e-business platform in 25 major cities in the year 2000. BuildNet aims to significantly reduce the wastefulness of the current supply chain by facilitating electronic commerce among builders, manufacturers and distributors. The National Association of Home Builders The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is one of the largest trade associations in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, DC, the association organizes one of the largest conventions in North America, The International Builders' Show, which draws more than estimates that $100 billion worth of building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . flows through this supply chain each year. Brown's presentation will detail the company's transformation from a project management software company to one of the largest e-commerce and technology solutions providers for the residential homebuilding industry. BuildNet has successfully forged partnerships with some of the industry's leading manufacturers and distributors and recently announced a third round of funding that closed at $104.7 million. About BuildNet BuildNet, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C., is one of the $240+ billion home building industry's largest e-business, technology and project management system providers. BuildNet's Internet-based e-business platform is being developed to provide home builders access to an integrated on-line network designed to change the residential construction market by availing every aspect of a building project to real-time, on-line, integrated e-business links, from the builders' back offices to the back offices of a wide range of product suppliers. Through its five project management systems, BuildNet products currently manage the construction of around one in three homes built in the U.S. BuildNet is also actively building alliances with the building industry's manufacturers, suppliers and large builders, and has recently signed e-business agreements with such companies as GE Appliance, Cameron Ashley and Owens Corning Owens Corning Corporation is the world's largest manufacturer of fiberglass and related products. It was formed in 1935 as a partnership between two major American glassworks, Corning Glass Works and Owens-Illinois. The company was spun off as a separate entity November 1, 1938. . More information on BuildNet can be found on the World Wide Web at www.buildnet.com. |
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