Clive Holdsworth

LONDON - VerticalNet , Inc. , a business-to-business e-commerce enterprise , has appointed Clive Holdsworth , formerly Director of Operations at Reed Business Information , as Director of Product Development and Operations for VerticalNet Europe.Holdsworth has cross-market experience in the B2B publishing and Internet industries , ranging from strategic analysis through to deployment management.

VerticalNet , Inc. is a business-to-business e-commerce enterprise that provides e-commerce solutions through its 59 industry-specific marketplaces.

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"By using the myTAXI software we have been able to extend our offering into BtoC e-commerce and through it, we hope to extend our valued relationships with business customers in their vertical communities," said Clive Holdsworth, Ecommerce Manager of RBI."We've started off with some of our leading titles, such as Computer Weekly and Farmer's Weekly, but our ultimate aim is to roll this model out across many more of our markets."

LONDON, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- VerticalNet, Inc. (Nasdaq: VERT) (http://www.verticalnet.com), the Internet's leading business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce enabler, has appointed Clive Holdsworth, formerly Director of Operations at Reed Business Information, as Director of Product Development and Operations for VerticalNet Europe (http://www.verticalneteurope.com).In this newly created role, Holdsworth will drive the effective development and deployment of VerticalNet Europe's products and e-commerce solutions into their respective vertical markets.