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Oldenburg, 02/24/2020
chembid Launches Premium Service for Chemical and Plastics Suppliers
Under the name PRO Supplier, chembid now offers an exclusive membership for chemical and plastics suppliers. The service package shall increase the digital visibility of the suppliers and provide valuable market insights for their chemicals business. Well-known chemical companies such as HELM AG and BTC Europe GmbH have already started as PRO suppliers on chembid.
Oldenburg, 24th February 2020 – The metasearch engine chembid expands its services. The new membership package, called chembid PRO Supplier, is a specific service for suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of chemicals and plastics. PRO Suppliers will benefit from various services that will significantly support their digital chemicals business. Christian Bürger, managing director of chembid, explains the PRO Supplier approach, „In today’s age, digital presence is a prerequisite for long-term success. Differentiation from the competition is also extremely important in this respect. With the PRO Supplier service, we enable suppliers to create greater trust in their target groups, to draw the attention of chemical buyers to their company and to acquire new customers even faster“. He also states, „Data analytics is also becoming increasingly important in all industries. As a metasearch engine, chembid generates a high amount of information, which in turn provides significant product and market insights for companies in the chemical industry“.
The PRO Supplier membership includes various coordinated premium services. Users of this service are reviewed by chembid and marked as verified suppliers. This verification is intended to help platform users to identify trusted suppliers quickly and easily. An individualized supplier profile is also part of the membership. PRO suppliers would gain valuable market insights through product and market reports. Highly relevant information on potential new customers, based on relevant product search on chembid.com, would also be provided. Analyses, such as buyer search behavior by product, country or industry, generate valuable insights that can be used to optimize sales and marketing activities and open up new markets. With analyses of the extensive product data inventory, e.g. alternative products and synonyms, chembid also supports its customers in optimizing and targeting their own digital marketing campaigns. With the help of chembid Product Ads, another component of the overall package, suppliers can also increase the visibility of selected product offers on chembid.com. Also, the included Sponsored Content Package offers the possibility to be part of the chembid partner section and to use the reach of chembid’s social media channels and blog for advertising purposes.
Several well-known chemical suppliers have already joined the service. „ We are very pleased that our PRO Supplier membership has been well received by the market. It is encouraging that for example HELM AG and BTC Europe GmbH are already using our premium service,“ comments Christian Bürger.
Interested companies can now become PRO Suppliers and take advantage of the premium service included in the overall package.
Further information can be found at www.chembid.com/pro-supplier.
About chembid
chembid is an Internet and big data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare millions of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
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Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 01/29/2020
chembid Expands Management with Chief Technology Officer
The world’s largest search engine for chemicals and plastics is growing in management. Marc Riley will be responsible for the technical development of the chembid platform as chief technology officer from February 2020 on.
Oldenburg, 29th January 2020 – Marc Riley, a longtime and experienced technology manager, will start at chembid in February and fill the position of technical director. Prior to this, he worked for the German media group Bertelsmann AG as chief technology officer for over a decade. Not only was he able to gain extensive IT and development experience, but also took over the technical management of various start-up spin-offs of the group. Christian Bürger, managing director of chembid, believes that the company is now in a better position for the future: „With Marc, we have gained an experienced technology and data expert, who will help chembid – as one of the leading platforms in the digital chemicals and plastics business – advance technologically further to the top of our field, and thus also support our customers and partners even better in their digital business success.”
As technical director, Riley will coordinate internal and external development teams and manage the technical implementation of new projects. In addition to the responsibility of technical operations, he will also be overseeing the ongoing development of the platform and the technical expansion of the business model. The CTO will play a key role in advancing search engine technology with the help of digitalization drivers such as big data analytics and machine learning. The platform users will benefit from the industry insights gained in the form of chembid services. In particular, premium suppliers, who have registered for the PRO Supplier Membership, which will be available from January on, will benefit from a broader range of features and services and additional industry information. Users will be able to harness market potential more effectively and address customers more efficiently. Chemical and plastics buyers can look forward to continuous improvements in the search algorithm and filter options, which, in turn, will guarantee an even better search experience.
About chembid
chembid is an Internet and big data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare millions of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
E-mail: wiebke.mikolajczyk@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 11/27/2019
chembid Expands Activities in the Indian Chemicals Market
The Indian market is becoming more and more important due to its rapid growth, especially in the chemical sector. The chemical platform chembid sees enormous potential in the further digitalization of the Indian chemicals business. In the future, the company plans to significantly expand its digital services in India through the building of its partner network and cooperations.
Oldenburg, 27th November 2019 – chembid, the world’s largest metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics, plans to expand its activities in India in 2020. The production, demand and consumption of chemicals have increased significantly in recent years. Over the past ten years, India has almost tripled the market volume of its domestic chemical industry.
In order to take this development into account, the Internet and Big Data company chembid is expanding its activities in India. The aim is to significantly expand the partner network on the subcontinent through Indian platforms and shops as well as additional services such as industry-relevant service providers. In addition, chembid wants to tailor its services more specifically to the Indian market and expand its own product portfolio with new platform partners. Currently, about 30 percent of chembid.com users – primarily chemical purchasers – access the search engine from India.
„Our Indian users and marketplace partners make a significant contribution to the success of the chembid platform,“ says Christian Bürger, Managing Director of chembid. „In order to continue offering our local stakeholders a high level of benefit and good service, we want to expand the availability of Indian chemicals and plastics offerings significantly and make them easier to access. In this way, we are driving the growth of the digital chemicals business in India forward in a decisive way.“
Buyers and suppliers from all over the world can already use various free and paid services to obtain market information or to advertise their own product offers on chembid.com. In addition to the platform’s free search and procurement functions, from January 2020 on, chembid will offer verified suppliers an exclusive service package as part of a Premium Membership, which will also be relevant for Indian suppliers. This includes comprehensive and high-quality market analyses, product and price reports as well as individual marketing services.
About chembid
chembid is an Internet and Big Data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare hundreds of thousands of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search, and more. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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Wiebke Mikolajczyk
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Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 11/04/2019
chembid Publishes a Comprehensive Report on Chemical Marketplaces
The chemicals search engine chembid publishes its first global Marketplaces Report on the 4th of November 2019. The report covers more than 50 chemical marketplaces. The purpose of the report is providing a comprehensive and fast overview of existing online marketplaces from all over the world based on selected criteria. The aim is simplifying the digital purchase and sale of chemicals.
Oldenburg, 4th November 2019 – As the world’s largest metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics, chembid publishes the first Marketplaces Report for buyers and sellers of chemicals. The report is a directory in which relevant information on more than 50 digital chemical marketplaces are bundled and clearly presented.
Christian Bürger, Managing Director of chembid, explains why such a report is important, „In recent years, numerous digital marketplaces have been founded. Currently, there are over 200 online platforms worldwide on which chemicals are offered and purchased. The chembid Marketplaces Report gives an overview by providing comprehensive information about the global chemical platforms, highlighting differences and thus providing guidance.“
Interested readers can quickly obtain relevant company information, the platform model, platform services and many other details about the marketplaces from the report. Key figures such as the number of chemical offers and suppliers as well as the number of users also make it easier for buyers and suppliers of chemicals to select the right marketplace. With the help of the report, the reader can quickly and easily get an idea of relevant marketplaces for the purchase and sale of chemicals. In addition to the platforms that are specialized in chemicals, the report also includes general platforms that offer, besides chemicals, products from other industries.
chembid plans to update and publish the report annually. The first Marketplaces Report can be accessed from 4th November on and will be absolutely free for all users. The only requirement to access the report is an active chembid user account. Further market reports on other topics are also planned, and chembid users will be informed about new publications via the chembid newsletter.
Are you interested in publishing the complete chembid Marketplaces Report on your website? Then contact us now!
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
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Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 09/18/2019
chembid integrates its First Logistics Service Provider with TankContainerFinder.com
chembid, the world’s largest search engine for chemicals and plastics, and TankContainerFinder.com, a booking platform for tank containers, entered into a partnership at the beginning of September. The search engine hereby is taking its first steps in the direction of chemical logistics. Both platforms hope to create cross-sectoral synergies through long-term cooperation, which will be expressed primarily in the form of a broader range of services and greater transparency for their users.
Oldenburg, 18th September 2019 – After entering into platform cooperations with well-known marketplace operators for chemicals and plastics in the past months, chembid announced a cooperation with TankContainerFinder.com in September. In addition to the range of chemicals worldwide, supplementary logistics services will also be available for the platform users. TankContainerFinder.com is a platform which users can quickly find tank containers of the desired type and quantity for the transport of their chemicals. Users benefit from a wide range of transport containers, high comparability and cost transparency. At the same time, commercial suppliers can offer their tank containers and present them efficiently and cost-effectively to a large number of potential customers. TankContainerFinder.com currently has over 1,100 active users from 114 countries and over 900 brokerage enquiries, making it one of the largest and fastest growing platforms for the booking of tank containers.
The cooperation between chembid and TankContainerFinder.com gives chembid users access to a reliable logistics service. With this cooperation, chembid is broadening its position in the chemical industry. „Our users demand innovative solutions for everyday challenges in the chemical industry. In addition to purchasing and selling chemicals and plastics, supplementary services in areas such as logistics or financing are also highly relevant. In TankContainerFinder.com we have found a reliable partner from the logistics sector with whom we can offer complementary logistics services on our platform,“ comments Christian Bürger, Managing Director of chembid.
Léon de Bruin, CEO of TankContainerFinder.com, is also looking forward to the cooperation: “The partnership between chembid and TankContainerFinder.com enables us to broaden our horizon and network within the chemical and plastics industry. We are looking forward to connecting the largest search engine for chemicals and plastics worldwide, with a great presence in the Far East, to the leading platform for tank containers worldwide, which has more than 65% of the global fleet connected, and building a more transparent and efficient chemical supply chain together.”
The cooperation between chembid and TankContainerFinder should also be a signal for open and interdisciplinary cooperations between digital platforms. Further partnerships are planned by chembid with companies from other industry sectors in order to offer users a growing and broader range of services.
About TankContainerfinder
TankContainerFinder.com is the leading platform for tank containers worldwide. Started in 2017 as a Rotterdam (NL) based startup, the company has grown to more than 1,100 activated users in 2019 and has generated over $25M in tank container business. It is TankContainerFinder.com’s goal to optimize and empower the entire tank container supply chain with efficient digital solutions that enable collaboration, transparency, visibility and decentralization. Further information on the company can be found at www.tankcontainerfinder.com.
About chembid
chembid is an internet and big data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest meta search engine for chemicals, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and to make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare hundreds of thousands of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search, and more. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
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Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 10/09/2019
chembid Publishes Price Trend as a Guide for the Purchase and Sale of Chemicals
The chemical search engine chembid will soon publish price trends on its own platform and contribute to better market transparency in the chemical industry. The price information will be published under the name „chembid Price Trend“ for the first time on September 16, 2019 and will be free to all registered users and updated monthly.
Oldenburg, 10th September 2019 – The world’s largest search engine for chemicals and plastics is expanding its platform services to include chembid Price Trend. This is a service in the form of price statistics for selected chemicals. On the chembid Price Trend page, platform users will be able to receive price information on relevant chemicals from mid-September on. The listed price information represents calculated values to support buyers and sellers of chemicals in their procurement and sales processes. Vasilios Pamporis, Head of Sales at chembid, sees the chembid Price Trend as a high value-added service for the market: „We know that there is a high demand for price information in the chemical industry. With the chembid Price Trend, we offer a quick and easy orientation for buyers and sellers in addition to the offer prices already available on chembid“.
This is a service in the form of price statistics for selected chemicals. On the chembid Price Trend page, platform users will be able to receive price information on relevant chemicals from mid-September on. The listed price information represents calculated values to support buyers and sellers of chemicals in their procurement and sales processes. Vasilios Pamporis, Head of Sales at chembid, sees the chembid Price Trend as a high value-added service for the market: „We know that there is a high demand for price information in the chemical industry. With the chembid Price Trend, we offer a quick and easy orientation for buyers and sellers in addition to the offer prices already available on chembid“.
The first price statistics that will be published in September will contain 28 chemicals, ranging from acetone and methanol to citric acid. According to Vasilios Pamporis, the number of products will expand: „We have included chemicals that are frequently in demand and highly sought after in the first portfolio of chembid Price Trend. It is planned to continuously expand this selection with additional raw materials, commodities and specialty chemicals. Feedback from buyers and sellers is also particularly important to us in order to continuously improve the chembid Price Trend and establish it as THE basis for negotiations in the purchase and sale of chemicals.” The chembid Price Trend will be published for both the European and Chinese chemical markets.
The price trend statistics are an exclusive service for registered users. Registration with chembid and the use of the chembid Price Trend via the user account are free of charge. The publication of a new price trend will also be announced in the platform’s newsletter. Hence, it is ensured that interested parties are informed timely of the new Price Trend publication. Interested users can subscribe to the newsletter in the registration process or in their user account via the „Newsletter“ section.
About chembid
chembid is an internet and big data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest meta search engine for chemicals, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and to make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare hundreds of thousands of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search, and more. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
E-mail: wiebke.mikolajczyk@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
Oldenburg, 08/20/2019
chembid Establishes First Advertising Opportunity for Chemical Suppliers
Starting in August, suppliers can advertise their chemical and plastic offers on the chembid search engine. By way of Product Ads, offers are placed at the top of the search results, thus increasing the visibility of the advertised product offers and the number of leads.
Oldenburg, 20th August 2019 – chembid has recently expanded its service portfolio of premium services with its new Product Ads. This is an additional service that allows suppliers to highlight product offers by placing them ahead of the competitors‘ organic search results. „chembid currently lists more than two million chemical and plastic offers in the search engine and recently reached more than 2,000 daily users. With the chembid Product Ads, we are making it possible for our suppliers to draw attention to their products in a better and more targeted way and to win new customers even faster,“ explains Wiebke Mikolajczyk, Head of Marketing at chembid. If a buyer is looking for a chemical offer, the Product Ads corresponding to the search term or corresponding synonyms are displayed above the organic search results.
The chembid Product Ads are an exclusive service for suppliers, online shops and marketplaces, whose products can be found in the chembid search engine. With the help of the related self-service tool, the Ad Manager, the user can independently create, manage, adapt and evaluate the Product Ads. The requirement for using the Ad Manager is that the product range to be advertised can already be found on the chembid search engine.
After the successful completion of its test phase, the Ad Manager has been available for all registered users since August 12, 2019. In order to be able to use it, suppliers must first register with chembid, which is free of charge. The Ad Manager can then be accessed via the user account. Here, users can purchase impression packages and create ads for the product offers they wish to advertise. Targeting of relevant countries can also be defined by the user.
In addition to the search engine, it is important for chembid to offer user-specific and industry-relevant features and services for buyers and suppliers. Further services like market analyses and marketing options are already in the works and will be available soon.
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chembid Product Ads: https://www.chembid.com/en/for-advertisers/
chembid search engine: www.chembid.com
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
E-mail: wiebke.mikolajczyk@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
chembid is Official Partner in Kyto’s Partner Network
Oldenburg, July 2019 – chembid has been added as a metasearch engine for chemicals and plastics to the partner network of Kyto, an international software-as-a-service provider. As globally active companies and digital pioneers in their respective fields, both the Oldenburg-based technology company and the marketing experts in Berlin hope for a beneficial and fruitful cooperation.
chembid and Kyto: Tackling Digitalization, instead of Ignoring It
Now that all areas of life have been digital transformed, B2B entrepreneurs are also aware that they need to reorient their own company digitally in order to remain competitive in the long run. What has been standard in private life is now being demanded in their professional life by younger generations – the digital natives – who are moving up to corresponding management positions. Commercial offering and product research as well as B2B buying and selling are increasingly taking place through digital channels. Therefore, it is very important for commercial companies and their digital channels, such as B2B portals, directories and marketplaces, to be readily available on the internet.
This has been acknowledged by chembid and Kyto. As the world’s largest metasearch engine, chembid aggregates information on product offerings on the internet and makes it accessible to B2B buyers. With their portal marketing solutions, the software company Kyto has committed itself to optimizing the online presence of their customers. By bundling all portal entries of clients, the Kyto software enables customers to manage their accounts centrally. The passion to promote digital topics beneficial for their users and customers connects both platforms.
Cooperation for Better User and Customer Experience
The chembid platform enables commercial sellers to add their product offerings so they can be found by potential buyers on the chembid search engine. Since Kyto also manages customers in the chemical industry who are interested in having their products on chembid, a cooperation between chembid and Kyto was only natural. Furthermore, the management of company profiles requires internal resources and, above all, time, but Kyto helps solve this problem with its software and personal customer support. This allows entries, profiles and accounts from different global B2B portals and marketplaces to be centralized and managed efficiently. The cooperation between chembid and Kyto will be advantageous for users and customers, since Kyto’s chemical customers will expand their online presence with the assistance from chembid.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
E-mail: wiebke.mikolajczyk@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
chembid and MOLBASE enter into platform cooperation
The search engine operator chembid has entered into a cooperation with MOLBASE, one of the world’s largest online marketplaces for chemicals. The partnership includes incorporating chemical offers available on the MOLBASE platform in the chembid search engine. In addition, there will also be close cooperation in other areas in the future.
Oldenburg, June 2019 – The German internet startup chembid and the Shanghai-based company MOLBASE announced today that they have entered into a platform cooperation. Two innovative pioneers of the still relatively young online chemical business are joining forces to drive the digital transformation of the chemical industry forward. MOLBASE operates a leading B2B e-commerce platform, which has been on the market since 2013, focusing primarily on chemicals, pharmaceuticals and new materials. On their platform, the company offers various SaaS and supply chain services to purchasers and suppliers.
The core technology of chembid is a metasearch engine for commercial chemicals and plastics. The essential feature of the metasearch engine is the access to several thousands of external chemical online shops and marketplaces for search queries, and similar to travel metasearch engines, for example, the suitable results from numerous marketplaces are processed and made comparable. With the help of a central search, the offers are provided with a high level of transparency and clarity.
Photo (left to right): Juliet Ma (General Manager, International Business, MOLBASE), Zheng Wang (CEO, MOLBASE), Christian Bürger (CEO, chembid), Estella Yen (Business Development Manager, Asia Pacific, chembid)
Customary for chembid’s industry and marketplace partnerships, chemical offers from MOLBASE e-commerce platform (www.molbase.com and www.molbase.cn) will be available and made comparable on the chembid search engine (www.chembid.com). The resulting advantages for both partners are evident: while chembid is adding several hundred thousand offers to its existing large portfolio of over two million product offers, MOLBASE will benefit from numerous new, worldwide users who access the Chinese marketplace via chembid. „We are pleased that we were able to win another experienced marketplace partner for a platform cooperation with MOLBASE, who are highly regarded not only in China but also worldwide,“ said Christian Bürger, Managing Director of chembid. „With this step, the chemical offerings of almost all relevant digital chemical marketplaces will be available on chembid.com. For our users, this means even greater comparability, variety of suppliers and greater range.“
Juliet Ma from MOLBASE is also looking forward to the cooperation:
“With the strategic partnership between MOLBASE and chembid, both sides will be able to expand their worldwide activities, and gain new customers as well as offer further advantages to existing customers of both platforms, which would be quite valuable and beneficial for our customers.”
In addition to the platform connection, a close cooperation in other areas is also planned in the future between chembid and MOLBASE, such as service offers, events or marketing. The common goal is to utilize the synergy effects resulting from the partnership and to tap into new markets.
About MOLBASE
MOLBASE is a Shanghai-based company founded in 2011 that operates an e-commerce platform for the chemical, pharmaceutical and new materials industries. MOLBASE’s comprehensive database and in-house technologies distinguish itself from other marketplaces. With several million chemical data and over 120,000 registered users, MOLBASE is one of China’s largest marketplaces in the industry. Further information on the company can be found at www.molbase.com and www.molbase.cn.
About chembid
chembid is an internet and big data company based in Oldenburg, Germany. With its operation of the world’s largest meta search engine for chemicals, chembid provides market intelligence, sourcing and marketing services for commercial buyers and suppliers. It is chembid’s goal to bundle and process the information on chemicals, plastics and their providers available on the web and to make this information easily accessible. The chembid platform, which was launched in October 2017, offers the possibility to find and compare hundreds of thousands of chemical offers from different marketplaces and online shops through a central search, and more. Further information on the company can be found at www.chembid.com.
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chembid GmbH
Wiebke Mikolajczyk
Phone: +49 441 36116 326
E-mail: wiebke.mikolajczyk@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany
STOCKMEIER invests in search engine chembid
The STOCKMEIER Group, one of the biggest family-run distributors in the European chemical sector, has become a shareholder of the German technology start-up chembid. The young company developed a global metasearch engine and online-platform for chemicals and related services, connecting buyers and sellers of chemicals online. chembid will use the capital increase to develop the search engine further and expand its data-based services for chemical companies.
Oldenburg, January 2019 – The chemical company STOCKMEIER, based in Bielefeld, Germany, announced its investment in the start-up chembid. This is the first strategic partnership that the spin-off of the BÜFA Group enters. “We’re happy to announce the participation of the STOCKMEIER group,” said Christian Bürger, Managing Director of chembid, “It shows that a necessary change in the chemicals business has been recognized, enabling us to further promote the digitization of the chemical sector with another strong partner by our side.”
chembid‘s metasearch engine has been available since October 2017 and offers a digital solution for the purchasing and selling of chemicals. Using modern digital technologies, the company collects, processes and bundles information about providers and offers from web shops and marketplaces, making them easily accessible to their clients. Commercial buyers can gain quick insights into the market, compare international offers in a matter of minutes, and contact the vendor with the most suitable offer immediately. With chembid’s tender feature, they can also generate tenders directly via the platform. On the other hand, because of large number of users worldwide, chemical suppliers can greatly boost their global reach. Currently, there are about two million product offers by around 100,000 suppliers from over 160 countries available on www.chembid.com. Thus, both buyers and sellers can find business partners around the world within a few mouse clicks.
Through the extensive data from – among other things – product and supplier information as well as buyer search behavior, with the help of modern data analysis methods, companies gain new insights on critical market information. With these, chembid aims at giving its clients a competitive edge by providing information and analysis tools on the platform, so they can better recognize market potential and initiate targeted measures. chembid enjoys growing popularity. Since the beginning of the year, the platform has mushroomed by about 800 % to over 35,000 current monthly users.
Promotion of the digital transformation
For almost one hundred years, STOCKMEIER has been working in the area of distribution, production and services for the chemical sector. “In the world of chemistry, information and data will play an important role going forward. In chembid, we see a news aggregator for products and their accessibility on the Internet, and thus engage in a business model of the future,” states executive partner Peter Stockmeier. The STOCKMEIER Group is the second shareholder of the technology start-up spun off from the BÜFA group two years ago. “Digitization changes the whole chemical sector and as a result the client relationships – the way customers and suppliers get in touch with each other as well as the information sought by clients – are changing, too. With the spin-off of chembid we didn’t just react to this development but wanted to actively shape it. Alongside STOCKMEIER we offer more partners the possibility to take part in chembid’s successful business concept and drive digital transformation forward”, explains Felix Thalmann, CEO of BÜFA Holding.
chembid wants to use STOCKMEIER’s investment to further develop their metasearch engine, complement more data-based services and promote global marketing.
Data-based marketing for the chemical sector
Under the name chembidX, chembid also offers specialized, targeted paid-media and online marketing campaigns. Using the available data on user behavior the search engine provides, advertising measures can be precisely targeted, like on the chembid platform itself, via the Google ad network or social media platforms. In this way, chembidX makes a decisive contribution to the growth of digital marketing in the chemical business. The combination of big data analytics and modern marketing technologies enables them to convey the right messages to the target groups of chemical companies.
About STOCKMEIER
The STOCKMEIER Group stands for dependable supplying of chemical products throughout Europe. With this claim, the company has developed from a regional trading house into an international group with more than 1,300 employees. Today, the STOCKMEIER Group includes companies that offer chemical sector distribution, production and services at over 40 locations worldwide.
In total, they trade and produce more than 26,000 products and service over 30,000 clients worldwide. This size and performance are inextricably linked to the personal relationships with clients and producers.
About BÜFA
The BÜFA Group is an independent, medium-sized company in the chemical industry. Founded in 1883 and based in Oldenburg, Germany, it has its origins in a trading house for dyeing wood, oils and chemicals. Today BÜFA offers an extensive range of products and services for the international market in its three business areas: chemicals, cleaning and composites. Its customers include companies in food processing, textile, industrial and vehicle cleaning, wind energy, the rail and commercial vehicle industry as well as in the marine segment. With 567 employees and 45 trainees, BÜFA achieved group sales of 255 million euros in 2017. In keeping with its high ethical values, the traditional Oldenburg company foster fair, partnership-based cooperation with customers, suppliers and the public. Firmly anchored in its corporate values, BÜFA strictly adheres to the principle of sustainability, relying on “new chemistry” and combining economic efficiency with social responsibility.
About chembid
chembid is a young technology company based in Oldenburg, Germany that combines know-how in big data, e-commerce, online marketing and UX for the chemical business. With their web-based solutions, the company significantly contributes to the successful digitization of the sector. The company has set itself the goal of pooling, processing and making more accessible information on chemicals and suppliers available on the Internet. Launched in October 2017, the chembid platform offers the opportunity to find chemicals in hundreds of thousands of offers via a central search engine. More company information can be found at www.chembid.com
Press Contact
chembid GmbH
Christian Bürger
Phone.: 0441 36116 325
E-mail: info@chembid.com
Marie-Curie-Straße 1
26129 Oldenburg
Germany