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FinTech Innovation Eases B2C Sellers’ Entrance Into The B2B World

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The takeover signaled an evolution of the company's business model from a traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) seller, to one that includes business-to-business (B2B) operations. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market.

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The B2B, B2C Realms Of eCommerce Are Headed For Convergence

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The company is currently developing a data platform for both B2B and B2C online sellers that not only need to meet the needs of buyers today, but future-proof their sales strategies for tomorrow. Whether that seller is a B2B or B2C seller matters less as the eCommerce environment grows more sophisticated.

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A B2C Merchant’s Guide To The B2B Ecosystem

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The business-to-business (B2B) market can offer countless opportunities for traditionally business-to-consumer (B2C) merchants to expand their businesses and boost their bottom lines. The trouble is that the ins and outs of managing B2B payments can be far more complex than those to which most B2C retailers are accustomed.

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B2C Food Platform GrubMarket Nets $60M, Eyes IPO

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GrubMarket works in a B2C role in which it ships goods to individuals, and also a B2B role by supplying grocery stores, meal kit startups and other companies, TechCrunch reported. Participants included BlackRock, Reimagined Ventures, Trinity Capital Investment and numerous others, TechCrunch reported.

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Market Volatility Gives B2C Sellers’ The Chance To Go B2B

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B2C Sellers’ B2B Incentive. Ad-hoc procurement can be a powerful incentive to nudge traditionally B2C sellers into the B2B ecosystem, which presents the opportunity for large retailers to expand their revenue stream, Spear explained. “As you get the use case right, you can replicate that across a whole vertical.”

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FoodMaven: Food Distributors Pivot To B2C

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The current COVID-19 crisis has trained a spotlight on what happens when the means of how we satisfy the most basic of needs – getting enough food to eat – are upended. Never was that more apparent than just a few weeks ago, when supermarket shelves were laid bare of everything from meat to pasta to eggs.

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Everlink, FINTAINIUM Team Up To Offer Real-Time B2B, B2C Payments

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Everlink Payment Services is teaming with workflow solutions provider FINTAINIUM to offer B2B and B2C payments in real time, leveraging the ISO 20022 global standard, according to a press release.

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