The number of companies involved in this sector will double in 2003

The Spanish technology panorama takes time waiting for a bet of the scale of Portal.point, a new trade fair model which main objective is to show companies the advantages and opportunities offered by the B2B. A market with spectacular growth expectations for the coming years, which promises to be the new economy engine.

 
Has touched us live an era of big changes, in which the technological innovation plays a fundamental paper. But the transition to this future of big expectations has created a true chaos so much for the users as for the companies, confronted to changes impredecibles. However, the world of the technology goes settling, and the possibilities clear . According to the last annual report of the AECE (Spanish Association of E-commerce) on the B2B in Spain, the operations of dealers of products and provision of services between companies in the year 2000 was of 4,7 trillion pesetas.

This volume is the result of the work of all the companies of the Spanish economic scene that are dedicated to B2B, only 20.1 per cent of the total number of Spanish companies. Forecasts by the AECE for the following years, in this sense, are very favorable, since it is expected that the number of companies involved in the Spain B2B switch, from the 7.311 of the first half of 2001, to duplicate virtually his number in 2003to reach the 14.222. This trend is also, repeated studies show, at the level of Western Europe, a market which provides for an increase in benefits of 91 per cent by 2005, according to the report of October of the consulting firm IDC Research. Internet and electronic commerce are presented, then, as a reality of the moment, as an instrument that Spanish companies should use to meet the demands of consumers and adapt to their habits.

In this context, is Portal.point, the first international Internet and electronic commerce, which will take place from 7 to 12 may in Hall number 1 of Montjuic 1 at Fira de Barcelona. The exhibition is organised by the consortium of the zone Franca de Barcelona with the collaboration of the AECE, in order to provide that 79.9% of entrepreneurs and professionals that have not yet incorporated new technologies as a tool for the growth of your businessa show where to find everything they potentially need in this field, from advice to marketplaces, passing by investors or web designers. Find, therefore, the usefulness of new technologies for which even have not incorporated them, but without forgetting that as users may be seeking specific and detailed information to optimize their use and presence on the network.

The Consorci, that was founded in 1916 to promote the trade and industry through, first of the Franca area of Barcelona, and later through the development of industrial projects for corporate use, enjoys great prestige and extensive experience in the realization of rooms: three exhibitions from the real estate sector (Barcelona Meeting Point, Marbella Meeting Point and Americas Meeting Point), as well as the fair of logistics SIL, which will consolidate as an institution consolidated in the sector. This time they will have, moreover, to AECE as a collaborating entity, an entity non-profit that brings together more than 200 companies belonging to the majority of sectors of the Spanish economy, and that pursues aimed at promoting the development of a reliable e-commerceopen and easy, focusing most of its activity in the research.

In the 10.000 m2 of area of the living room, the companies expositoras national and foreign will be able to expose his last novelties. Portal. point Sets up a new concept of living room, thanks to this experience of the Consorci in the organisation of fairs, in which reconfigura the contest basing in the clusterización of the living room, grouping the companies by types of services, inside the two sectors differentiated that cover his display units: the services side, and professional contents B2B, web of services and marketplaces by the another. The companies that besides explain between his services contained directed to the final consumer, also will have the opportunity to show them in his stand during the weekend, moment in which the living room will open to the big public. The aim of the organisation is to guide to the visitor of the fair, so that his route was the most profitable possible, achieving aim at least to any of the opportunities that the B2B offers today day: improvement of the level of the service, extension of the market, reduction of costs, reduction of time in the procurement... Portal.point Pretends, with his guarantee of quality, turn into the meeting point of the companies of internet and e-commerce, any one that was his sector of activity.
 

5) METALUNIVERS March 2002