supplyFORCE.com LLC(King of Prussia, PA), a provider of supply chain and B2B e-commerce solutions, announces that it has agreed to integrate the distributor members of C.L. Watt into its Participating Distributor network. Implementation of this agreement will broaden supplyFORCE.com’s hvac and plumbing product offerings, and will expand its network to approximately 350 distributors with 3,900 shipping locations across North America and a combined $22 billion in annual sales.

EqualFooting.com (Dulles, VA) and MBNA Corp. (Wilmington, DE) have announced that MBNA will join a group of financial institutions in providing small business lending services to EqualFooting.com members. The online service is a B2B marketplace developed to put small manufacturing and construction businesses on an "equal footing" with large companies in the areas of financing, purchasing, and shipping.

Publication date: 10/02/2000