Eutilia Reports Black Figures
Eutilia, the leading European marketplace for Utility companies, announces positive EBITDA, EBIT and free cash flow in quarter four 2004
(PRWEB) February 24, 2005 -- Early 2004, Eutilia emerged with a focused group
of shareholders: EDF, Electrabel (Suez Group), Endesa, Enel, Iberdrola and
Vattenfall. It enabled Eutilia to get clear orientations, appropriate
maneuverability and better bottom line results. Mid-year, Eutilia successfully
launched her B2B European Utility Portal (EUP), an internet-based infrastructure
for buyers and suppliers to meet, exchange and make business: 200 new users are
joining every month since then. All services have been made accessible via a
friendly single-sign-on mechanism. Additionally EUP is enabling web-based
services plug-in, even if provided and hosted by third parties. Since its
implementation mid-2004, traffic and usage has doubled and Eutilia is proud to
count 7000 suppliers and 1000 buyers connected to her portal.
About
Eutilia N.V. (www.eutilia.com)
Eutilia is the leading online marketplace
in Europe for Utilities (Energy, Water, Gas, Telecom, Railway companies).
Eutilia is working jointly with buyers and sellers to ensure quicker, deeper and
more efficient business relationships. Founded and financed by Europe’s 11
largest electric utilities, Eutilia is:
- an online area for buyers and
suppliers to meet, and know more about mutual needs and capabilities through the
exchange of structured information,
- a mean for buyers to go faster and
cheaper, optimizing their purchasing process. Buyers can access market reports,
search for supplier’s data needed for pre-qualification, ask for supplier scan
for specific products (cables, transformers, meters...) and are enabled to
execute electronic tenders and auctions,
- a fast and cost-efficient sales
and marketing channel for sellers toward the Utility industry, where they can
increase the ‘readability’ of their capabilities and know-how in the Utility
sector. Sellers are enabled to describe their company according to Utility
standards (100's fields), to receive tender alerts, to be introduced to
customers and to auction commodities or excess inventory (Electric/excess
inventory).
To date, 1000 buyers from 130 different buying-entities and
7000 suppliers are connected to Eutilia marketplace, generating €1,0 Billion
deal flow online per year.
Eutilia shareholders are EDF, Endesa,
Iberdrola, Enel, Electrabel (from Suez Group), and
Vattenfall.
Headquartered in the Amsterdam area, with offices in Leiden,
Eutilia can be reached at +31 71 53 53 100 or at www.eutilia.com.
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