3 December 2000

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WorldWide Retail Exchange gets eleven new members

World Wide Retail Exchange, the business to business e-commerce marketplace, get eleven new  members. Among them are large multinationals such as US based Toys"R"Us and German retail giants Rewe and Tengelmann. Also French Galeries Lafayette joins WWRE, as well as the Coops of Switzerland and Italy.  

The e-commerce marketplace, which was established only this year, already includes major players such as Albertson's, Best Buy,  CVS/pharmacy, Gap, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Rite Aid Corporation, Safeway, Supervalu, Target and Walgreen, British Dixons, Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer, Safeway and Tesco, French Auchan and Casino, Belgian Delhaize Group, Danish  Dansk Supermarked, German Edeka, Spanish El Corte Ingles, Dutch Ahold, Japanese Jusco and the Hong Kong based Dairy Farm International.

Other retail giants, including Carrefour, Sainsbury and Metro, are grouped in the competing GlobalNetExchange. Wal-Mart, world's largest retailer, has established its own exchange.