Background

The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, USA. It was founded by John Schneiter , the chief R&D engineer of General Electric. In 1999 , it received a US$ 20 million investment from Warburg Pincus, the world's largest venture capital fund, and entered a period of rapid development. After 10 years of development, GlobalSpec has grown into one of the world's top three industrial procurement websites.

GlobalSpec is committed to providing product and supplier information to purchasing engineers and technical engineering experts in the global industrial and electronic industries. Currently, there are 6.6 million registered users worldwide using GlobalSpec's services. Every day, more than 100,000 professional purchasers, marketing personnel and engineers from manufacturing, distributors, system integrators, etc. use GlobalSpec. At the same time, more than 110 industrial and electronic manufacturers among the world's top 500 companies are cooperating with GlobalSpec to find high-quality products and suppliers worldwide through its services.

Basic Situation

GlobalSpec has a user base of 5.9 million purchasing engineers and technical buyers, and more than 5 million engineers and technical experts regularly use GlobalSpec as their preferred online engineering and technical information resource.

Partners

GlobalSpec has partnered with several well-known companies, including AltaVista, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Society of Automation, McGraw-Hill and SolidWorks. SolidWorks embeds the GlobalSpec search engine into its computer-aided design software. Warburg Pincus sold GlobalSpec to IHS in 2012.

Honor Introduction

GlobalSpec enters Media Power 50 ranking for four consecutive years

-In 2007, GlobalSpec ranked among the top 10 websites in the " Media Power 50 " category for the first time;

-In 2008, GlobalSpec was ranked among the top 10 websites in the " Media Power 50 " category;

- In 2009, GlobalSpec ranked top 2 in the vertical search engine category of " Media Power 50 ";

-In 2010, GlobalSpec was ranked among the top 10 websites in the “ Media Power 50 ” category.

" GlobalSpec 's sales grew 51% last year, the site has 3.8 million registered users and is growing at a rate of 60,000 users per month. Today, the site has more than 1 million engineers subscribing to its Techs & Specs e-newsletter."

—— 2007 B2B Media Power 50

" SpecSearch is GlobalSpec 's new search technology that allows users to search by specification, with 138 million parts, 1.8 million product lines, and 20,000 supplier catalogs available."

—— 2008 B2B Media Power 50

" GlobalSpec , an online media company, has achieved a 50% compound annual growth rate since 2001. Engineers use the GlobalSpec engineering search engine extensively when designing products, which has attracted a large number of B2B advertisers to place ads on GlobalSpec ."

—— 2009 B2B Media Power 50

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