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The last two years have shown fantastic growth in the area of electronic trading across the construction industry. Increasingly COINS-etc solutions have been adopted by leading construction companies such as ROK, Kier, Laing O'Rourke, and Connaught. Construction industry suppliers are also joining the community in ever-increasing numbers, including national suppliers such as Parkers, Wolseley, Hilti, Travis Perkins, ARCO and Speedy, placing COINS-etc firmly at the heart of the construction industry. The product launched late in 2004 and has seen rapid growth of 90% between 2005 and 2006, this trend is continuing into 2007. Today we are seeing transaction levels approaching 1 million per annum with 70 suppliers and 50 construction companies actively trading, this represents in the order of 500 trading connections, and positions COINS-etc as the leading electronic trading community within the construction industry.  |