This hasn't been a particularly good year for many web-based business-to-business ventures, but at least one company is having a relatively easy - make that ec - time of it.
ecFood announced in August that it completed $100 million of transactions in the second quarter of 2001 - a 65 percent increase from the first quarter of 2001. The company attributes the growth to an increase in customers and its team-purchasing program, which enables several buyers to jointly buy specific items.