Review of World Stonex on January 15, 2004 in "Decorative Articles", a magazine focused on the Stone, Monuments & Artifacts Industry

NEWS & VIEW

WORLD STONEX - A leading portal for the Stone Industry, Launched in January,2004

World Stonex is an on-line High-Tech Stone e-marketplace to efficiently link suppliers and buyers together in a revolutionary, innovative and cost effective manner and present current, vital, industry focused information.

Dimensional stone are widespread in India and have grown at a remarkable pace in the past decade bringing global recognition to the Indian Stone Industry. There is enormous potential to expand overall sale and market share of the Indian Stones in the world market but this vital trade is throttled with limitation due to fragmentation of supply markets, barriers of vast distances and constraints of information and communications gap. Considering the problems and needs of this extremely important industry, a comprehensive portal incorporating the advanced Internet Technology combined with an in-depth study of the industry has been developed to fulfill the requirements of the Stone Industry.

The World Stonex team comprises of highly experienced and renowned entrepreneurs from the stone industry in India and IT. Professional in US who are having proven expertise in ecommerce, software development & application and technology project management.

The company has formed an advisory panel comprising of most respected and well-known personalities from the Stone Industry, Associations, Export Promotion Councils, Trade Commissions and Govt. bodies. The illustrious Advisory Board includes the Chairman of Granite, Natural Stone & Products Panel of CAPAXIL, the Italian Trade Commissioner, Project Director under United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Chairman RllCO and C-DOS, President / Vice President of All India Granite & Stone Association, Federation of Indian Mineral Industries (FIMI), Indian Monuments Manufacturers Association, Confederation of Granite EOUs and many others. The World Stonex platform and its offerings are unique to the Stone Industry. Unlike an individual company's website which was limited awareness and is simply one of the thousands of stone company websites in the world, World Stonex is a global portal with a large number of suppliers on a common platform with advanced features, search capabilities and request tools which allows buyers to find products and suppliers at a single location in an efficient & easy way.

A unique feature is the Chinese language option, which will help in reducing the language problem, which is a great obstacle today. The portal is providing free access for all the visitors and there. is no service cost nor any transaction charge.

The company has already enrolled around 150 members from the cross section of the Indian Stone Industry covering processors, quarry owners, exporters of all types of natural stones, monuments & artifacts, machines, diamond tools &spares and also shipping agents. For each member, individual website has been designed, developed and maintained by World Stonex creating an impressive image to the buyers worldwide. Comprehensive product catalog for each supplier with photos of each product has been prepared and an unlimited number of products covering each member's full product range have been displayed.

The site also has several promotional sections, a Stone and Monuments & Artifacts Album and an Information Section containing cutting edge industry information and research reports. World Stonex shall break down barriers between the Indian Stone Industry and the buyers worldwide and would be a buyer-seller interface of inconceivable, gigantic magnitude. World Stonex shall be like a permanent international exhibition of the stone industry open all round the year, providing constant global visibility and enabling unlimited trade opportunities.

Decorative Stones 15th Jan., 2004