Toolbank to expand on world of B2C e-commerce

Toolbank, the premier tool distributor in the United Kingdom, will present its views on the ever-expanding, ever more complex world of e-commerce at the IHA Centenary Congress in London, September 2009. Toolbank has many years of direct experience in providing opportunities for retailers and stockists to be involved with, and benefit directly from, its online sales route to the consumer. Toolbank will speak on the ways in which the independent retailer can benefit from new technologies in the 21st centur and will base its presentation on how the internet has come into all of our lives and changed our shopping habits.
They will address three main areas:

• Online business-to-business (B2B) trading and why this is good for independents, in particular how having direct links with major wholesalers and distributors could enable retailers to source and sell over 100,000 products without having to stock them all.
• B2C selling alongside the traditional business and store collect trade.
• Several detailed case studies