ABOUT US Be Well Prepared ---to Establish Internet-related Businesses among Enterprises.
﹛﹛HC360 (HK8292) is a leading B2B electronic commerce services provider in China. It has built up a reliable business community for small and medium-sized enterprises based on web protocol and advanced internet search technology and provided them with full business information services. ※Mai-Mai-Tong§, an electronic marketplace launched by the company in early 2004, is a knockout product of the company. Now it has become the largest web-based transaction center in China, which has over 2.8 million registered users and more than 45 thousand fee-paying members and they releases several hundred thousands of information on business opportunities everyday. HC360 provides its users with all-facets and precision services. Through Mai每Mai-Tong, more than a hundred thousand enterprises release their business information in the areas of supply, purchase, tender invitation, agency, etc., and many of them have performed their preliminary part of transaction here and have since then, obtained long term orders from their customers. Recently, since the HC360*s launch of ※Traders Meets§ services throughout the country, the transaction turnover among membership enterprises has increased significantly, and the user value has therefore been explored to the maximum.
﹛﹛HC360 provides customers with abundant products and services in order to satisfy their various requirements of marketing needs, particularly for the small and medium sized enterprises. Apart from the Internet transaction platform, HC360 extends to maximize the scope and depth of its services through Trade Catalogues, Yellow Page Directories and sector research, therefore helping the domestic enterprises, which without access to internet, to participate in the comprehensive business community. HC Trade Catalogues cover more than 30 industry sectors, as well as the Yellow Page Directories which are published on an annual basis. HC360 also provides you with a bundle of value-added services, which include the production of internet interactive sector research reports, the organization and participation of the sector exhibitions and or trade fairs, and etc#
﹛﹛With over 13 years of valuable experiences in serving the small and medium-sized enterprises and our devoted efforts in running the B2B community, HC360 has successfully expanded its businesses to developing agencies in over another 100 cities. HC360 will continue to deliver its full-set of services to its customers to assist them maximizing their benefits.
Our Advantages
Be Well Prepared --- Leader in On-line B2B Marketplace Services
﹛﹛HC360 has been the leading cross-media B2B information provider and matchmaker for its community. Back in year 1992, we offered only one HC Trade Catalogues, which was in IT sector. With that publication, we had changed the pricing mechanism of IT products in Zhongguancun (the China*s Silicon Valley). Currently, we help millions of enterprises to carry out their initial contacts as well as in-depth negotiations through our highly efficient media channels across Internet, printed materials, exhibitions and etc. In our meaningful 13 years of history in operations, HC360 has always been the leading on-line B2B matchmaker.
Be Well Prepared-- Internet Platform for Commerce ﹛﹛
At present, HC360 adopts the position to build a B2B community for small and medium-sized enterprises on the web-based basis and advanced internet search technology, as well as to provide the community with comprehensive business information services. This is a major milestone and it indicates that HC360 focuses on Internet practices - the most efficient way for a managed dissemination of information and a revolution of conventional business model via Internet.
Be Well Prepared--- Easy to Master and Achieve More for Less
﹛﹛HC360 possess a super-comprehensive business database. Approximately 2.8 million enterprises deliver their transaction details through Internet, and about 0.6 million enterprises release their offers through HC Trade Catalogues. Meanwhile, there are well over 1 million enterprises use HC360*s publications to perform their procurement. Leveraging on such a huge and comprehensive database, trading is no longer a groping process like the story of ※a blind man tries to size up the elephant§.
Be Well Prepared--- Keep Everything under Control and Move with Great Care.
﹛﹛With the strategy of serving the business community by cross-media interactions, HC360 tends to help the buyers and the sellers to swiftly find their counter party in the community of business, so as to reduce their transaction costs while raising the efficiency. Through Internet media, we realize the online interactive trade matchmaking, while trying to cover the non-Internet customers with our publications and realizing the objective of coordination and integration amongst medias by ways of exhibition and trade fairs and sector researches. Through the above services, we are proud to providing our customers with the most competitive channels for their marketing.
Our Concepts
Be Well Prepared--- Create the Future Rather Than Anticipating It.
﹛﹛We all are in the ever changing new era, so is HC360. From HC Trade Catalogue to the sector research and then to the Mai-Mai-Tong; from covering a single industry to 67 industries with millions of enterprises; from the direct distribution of paper media to the integration of cross-media#HC360 never stop but always leads the changes with newest ideas and suitable business models. Our philosophy is to Create the Future and we make it our constant goal.
Be Well Prepared--- Led by Innovation
﹛﹛It was once only a dream to do business on the Internet. But when we brought that into reality, we found it full of challenges. The best way to react and to overcome these challenges is by Innovations. Today, we have managed to embed our Mai每Mai-Tong with the storefront concept, one which is virtually the on-line version of traditional shop lots. Its users can not only post advertisements and exhibit their products, but also set up a ※counter§ with receptionist. This concept of on-line storefront makes our user be able to experience changes in a more natural and harmony way.
Our Products
Be Well Prepared---※Mai-Mai-Tong (※MMT§)§ 每 Internet Drives New Business Practice.
﹛﹛MMT is a membership service that HC360 offers to businessmen who opt for extensive on-line commercial activities. With MMT, you are not only able to present your company, products and other business information through the web so that buyers can reach you, but also at the same time reaching out to interact with a larger group of potential buyers.
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Major advantages of MMT
﹛﹛1﹜Low cost, high returns while reliable on-line storefront creates great values for community;
﹛﹛2﹜Enjoy exclusive buy-sides information, alert on supply-demand movements at all time;
﹛﹛3﹜Business at anyplace and anytime, fully self-maneuver;
﹛﹛4﹜Sector search prioritization offers great opportunity for winning marketing.
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At present, there are 5 types of MMT memberships ie. i) Regular; ii) Silver; iii) Gold; iv) Platinum; and v) VIP.
Be Well Prepared---§Sector Search Engine§ - Easily Handling of the Vast of Information
﹛﹛We possess a unique and proprietary sector search engine, which is a dedicated internet search tool developed specially for businessmen. Such search engine is different from the public search engines. It is used to perform precision search on the vast of information from the internet cloud. This powerful tool provides search results in various segments, sector verticals as well as matrix including trade leads (both buy and sell), product listings, enterprise listings, technical articles and etc. For example, under the information of ※ pumps for sale§ it can be further subdivided by sectors such as water treatment / HVAC / oil & petroleum / machinery and chemical, and any other industries which have the needs for pumps. Our state-of-art*s propriatery taxonomy technology has tremendously increased the efficiency of search results that has never been seen in the public search 每 a characteristic which fit the requirements of businessmen, and therefore, they no longer feel despair because of inaccuracy and misfunction of their search results, which may have produced millions of irrelevant listings under a keyword search query. At HC360, we appreciate that their time is precious and it means efficiency and precision.
Be Well Prepared---※Trade Catalogues§ 每 Growing Consistently With Strong Circulation
﹛﹛HC Trade Catalogues---The authoritative industrial procurement guiders, and the pioneer in price quotation services for business community, have been gathering information from thousands of enterprises with tens of thousands product quotations. It is regarded as the most premier in terms of the quantity and quality of data for great referencing values.. They are provided to target readers for free and currently having over 1 million readership which is the largest in such business. Geographically, it covers 35 provinces and city and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan districts.
Be Well Prepared---※HC Yellow Page Directories§ 每 A Must-have Overall Updates of Industries.
﹛﹛HC Yellow Page Directories---A sector yearbook that compiles the industrial market information and analysis, product technologies, and enterprise listings, etc in a systematic way, is an important bridging for the manufacturers, suppliers, management entities and the users. It is a very handy tool serving the people who make business decisions, and widely recognized as a ※must-have§ marketing instrument by many well-established domestic enterprises and foreign companies doing business in China.
Be Well Prepared---※Sector Research§ 每 A Rational Step for The Right Decision.
﹛﹛※HC Sector Research§ is a reputable brand name and appears to be one of the China*s earliest professional consulting services. Leveraging on our self-owned largest and most comprehensive business data library and the advanced applications for information handling, we provide multi-level and high quality services in the field of industrial consultancy, market investigation and researches, marketing plan and management consultancy.
﹛﹛EIMS is an on-line market intelligent service for enterprise users. It can dynamically deliver the personalized and timely information to subscribers helping them to improve their effectiveness and efficiency on marketing decision-making.
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Be Well Prepared--- Branding and co-Prosperities
﹛﹛HC360 has the largest audience group, and is an important platform where many reputable brands are developed. . We also have successful cases in working with tens of multi-national companies and the top 100 domestic enterprises and these companies have achieved great branding results with us.
Our Vision
Be Well Prepared--- We Understand Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Better
﹛﹛In the past 13 years, we have been providing promotion platform and services with the highest Value-for-money to many small and medium-sized enterprises and therefore enable them to realize their utmost marketing goal with limited resources. Based on such cumulative experiences, we are gaining confident in providing attractive services for the small and medium-sized enterprises and we believe that we can do it better than anyone else.
Be Well Prepared--- Based on and Transcend History
﹛﹛HC360.com is the largest industry portal in Chinese language, serving tens of millions of business people in China but they can be from anywhere in the world. It is the most authoritative website specialized in serving business community. Based on its 13 years* experience in the business, HC360 has been transcending the history by utilizing more and more advanced technology and business ideas for the community.
Growth Paths
October 2005: ※Mai-Mai-Tong§' reached over 30 thousand fee-paying members.
April 2005: HC360 began to organize the country-wide §Traders Meet§, inviting the major buyers on Mai-Mai-tong to meet supplier directly 每 at least 40 meetings per month.
March 2005: ※Mai-Mai-Tong§ hit over 10 thousand fee-paying members.
March 2004: Sinobnet released ※Industry Portal*s§ declaration and changed its name to.HC360.com, which possessed separated sub-websites for 40 sectors and a search engine covering 76 sectors.
December 2003: HC International Inc. was listed on the Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market. Its 100,000,000 new issues were 9.6 times over subscribed at a price of HK$ 1.09 per share. On 17th, the first day of listing, the closing price was HK$1.46 per share, which increased 33.9% compared to the issuing price of HK$1.09.
February 2001: HC International released the I-series software, which has been used by a national website China.com.
April 2000: www.sinobnet.com was founded with the feature of ※Horizontal + Vertical§.
1993: HC set up offices in Tianjin, Nanjing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Ji*nan, , Xi*an, Chengdu, etc.
December 1991: the trade catalogue business with HC model was developed rapidly on the column of product quotations of Computer World.
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