Oxfordshire firm Bobex UK hits new heights

Bobex UK (www.bobex.co.uk ) has been in operation now for almost three years and in that short time it has established itself as the largest horizontal B2B marketplace in the UK.

[ClickPress, Tue Jul 25 2006] Two new sites offering specialist services have been launched by Bobex UK - BobexIT (www.bobexIT.co.uk ) aimed at the IT and telecoms area and www.fmmarkeptplace.co.uk for the facilities management marketplace. Through these and the ever increasing number of companies that sign up for their services Bobex UK is has reached its best every visitor figures with over 30,000 unique visitors per week throughout the month of July – typically a quiet month for trading.

Managing Director Barry Wheatley said ” We are really pleased with the progress over the past 6 months. Since January of this year we have almost doubled the number of visitors coming to our site and hope we can repeat the same increase over the coming 6 months..... we are looking forward to welcoming our 2 millionth visitor in the coming months”

Barry said that the growth in the activity is partly down to the new services on offer through the two new web sites but it is mainly due to the thousands of satisfied customers. “there is no better sales person than a happy customer – as our membership grows the number of recommendations grows and just through word of mouth we are getting more an more opportunities for our members”.

With Bobex membership currently at nearly 8,000 businesses nation-wide, the expectations are that the number of businesses using the free service will grow and grow.

The basis of the service on offer is simple, easy to use and best of all free to the purchaser. Instead of spending an afternoon or more gathering together competitive quotes when you wish to purchase an item or service, you simply spend 20 to 30 mins on the Bobex site defining your request for proposals then you leave the rest to the Bobex team. Bobex will then check through your request advise you on your requirement and get quotes from a range of different suppliers or contractors.

The Bobex system has been developed to save small and medium sized businesses time and money, but now it is gaining popularity with some of the largest businesses in the country. . Bobex will help businesses to save both time and money by getting a range of competitive quotes for almost every business product or service - from accountants to web designers, from computing services to cleaning services, from software development to PR or Ad agencies

Bobex does not get between the buyer and the supplier but simply gathers together the quotes for the buyer to select from. There is no obligation to go with any of the offers and Bobex does not take a commission on successful requests. Working purely on annual subscriptions Bobex offers the opportunities to it members first then will go outside to find alternative suppliers to join the scheme.

All suppliers are offered a 30 day no-obligation free trial during which they will have full access to al the Bobex services. So whether you are a buyer, supplier or contractor you have nothing to loose by trying Bobex and only time and money to save if you are a buyer and new opportunities to gain if you are a supplier.

Notes for the editor

Bobex UK was established in November 2003 www.bobex.co.uk For more information contact Barry Wheatley tel 08700 278695 email barry@bobex.co.uk

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