The leading Danish marketplace for e-commerce, IndustriLink I/S, has decided to join endorsia.com, SKF’s online marketplace for branded industrial goods and
services.

SKF Denmark A/S is among the owners of IndustriLink, along with Arvid Nilsson A/S, Sandvik Coromant A/S and Tyrolit Nordic A/S. Together with 10 other leading suppliers of industrial components, they have used the e-commerce site to supply more than 150 local distributors and end
customers in Denmark.

The board of IndustriLink I/S has decided to transfer all of its operations into endorsia.com as of
January 2001, adding about 200,000 transactions yearly to endorsia.com. IndustriLink markets about 400,000 part numbers and has yearly sales of close to DKK 200 million (USD 24 million).

Lars Bursche, chairman of
the IndustriLink board, calls
endorsia.com “an open, functioning marketplace with proven
functionality.”

“The pace of development in the Internet environment is so fast that it is imperative to be part of a global company like endorsia.com, to be assured state-of-the-art technology,” he says.