
International News
December 10,
1999
Latin eVentures
Aims for Brazil's Corporate Players
By
Anna Siqueira
Latin eVentures,
a new e-commerce holding startup, this week released what it calls
the first business-to-business e-commerce solution in Brazil.
Named eAquiB2B,
the tool will provide large Brazilian corporations with real-time
access to the biggest hardware and software products stock available
in Brazil.
With the eAquiB2B,
executives can have immediate access to over 40 products families
and 10.000 SKUs (stock units) from the main brands in the computer
industry, such as Apple, 3Com, Compaq, IBM, Novell, Microsoft
and hundreds of others.
According
to Cenmar Fuertes, founder, president and CEO of Latin eVentures,
this new corporate solution has been especially designed for corporate
information and procurement managers so that they can make important
computers purchases decisions
for their
companies on a daily basis.
Latin eVentures
and longtime local ally Ingram Micro Brasil are also pioneering
InsideLine technology implementation in Latin America. InsideLine
is a technology that allows Latin eVentures customers to get real-time
availability, prices and other information through a secure data
exchange.
Latin eVentures,
founded in July, is an e-commerce holding company based in Hamilton,
Bermuda. Latin eVentures has offices in São Paulo, Mexico
City, Buenos Aires and Santiago.