The focus of the NPCA annual meeting underscores the emergence of the Internet as a pervasive force in the business world.
CHICAGO — Was this a convention of coatings industry representatives or a summit of technology titans?
What with all the talk of e-commerce initiatives, online marketplaces, B2B sites, and other, even more cyber-age sounding terms at the recent Annual Meeting of the National Paint & Coatings Association, one might have temporarily forgotten that making and selling coatings was the primary object of these programs.