What is B2Bportales, Inc.?
B2Bportales, Inc. is a vertical portal company, born out of Carvajal's portfolio of market leading Business-to-Business (B2B) magazines. The Internet portals, supported by print, offer deep information in each industry segment covered (vertical), along with ample contact and advertising opportunities for industry suppliers. The industries covered are six: Printing, Converting, Plastics, Metalworking, Health Technologies, and TV and Video Production. B2Bportales intends to add vertical portals in other attractive Latin American industries.

What is a vertical portal?
A vertical portal is a portal that has a specific target market audience as opposed to a horizontal portal, which provides content to a general market audience.

What e-commerce features will B2Bportales offer?
B2Bportales is creating Commerce Centers, which will aggregate all vertical e-commerce offerings within each industry, offering suppliers with e-commerce abilities and independent marketplaces the ability to link to the Commerce Centers and thus tap directly into the high traffic generated by the B2Bportales content and community features. Suppliers in each of the industries are able not only to link their e-commerce centers, but also to showcase their products with interactive SHOWROOMS, through which they are able to receive Requests for Quotes (RFQs) among other leads.

Are businesses within each of the specialized industries in the United States able to take advantage of B2Bportales?
Yes, especially suppliers to those industries served by B2Bportales are able to take advantage of new and more powerful ways of reaching their customers across all of Latin America.

What is the source of the expert content that B2Bportales are providing?
Our source of information is directly from our mother company, The Carvajal Group's six pan-Latin trade publications, which are Artes Gráficas, Conversión de películas, foil, papel y cartón, El Hospital, Tecnología del Plástico, Metalmecánica Internacional and TV&Video Latinoamérica. These publications are all well recognized in their respective industries. In addition, content is sourced from local correspondents and expert source in all major markets, not only in Latin America, but worldwide.

Who is the Carvajal Group?
Founded in 1904, the Carvajal Group of companies today comprises several diverse lines of business across all of Latin America. Besides the B2Bportales connection and the magazines, Carvajal's printing subsidiaries lead the Latin American market in commercial and publications printing as well as package printing and converting. On the publishing side, Carvajal's Publicar arm is the leading yellow pages publishing company in the region with operations in eight countries. The Grupo Editorial Norma is the largest Latin American book publishing company. Other business lines include IT reselling operations and MEPAL, a leading Latin American office furniture manufacturer. With offices in 18 countries and over 10,000 employees across the board, Carvajal is one of Latin America's first homegrown multinationals.

Is B2Bportales available in any country in Latin America?
B2Bportales is available to anyone who has access to the Web. The corporate site has been developed in three different languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese in order to suit the needs of the vast majority of potential users in the U.S. and Latin America. Individual vertical sites are in published Spanish.

Where are the B2Bportales offices located?
B2Bportales has offices everywhere Carvajal has them, essentially in 17 countries across the Americas, plus Spain. B2Bportales is headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida.

Who are your competitors?
In terms of being multi-media vertical information portal operators, backed by solid offline market experience, there is no larger company doing what we do today in Latin America.

Who are your customers?
Individuals doing business in any of our specialized industries as well as those looking to do business with them in Latin America.

What is your customer assistance strategy?
We are currently implementing systems to answer all frequently asked questions through our Web site. Should an individual have a specific question they can contact us by e-mail as well as call at 1-305-448-6875 and we will be glad to answer any questions that our customers may have.