ABOUT US
Leading B2B e-Commerce for the Building Industry
Delivered as a suite of business-to-business services via internet based technology, Luban, the leading e-business services provider for the Chinese building industry, helps our clients to increase revenue potential, reduce cost, enhance productivity, and improve project management processes. In short, Luban helps Chinese building professionals to fully participate in and benefit from the technology-enabled new economy.

Luban offers three products to our clients:
--Information hub: Luban organizes product/service information from building material suppliers and tender information from contractors/developers into comprehensive online catalogs that can be easily listed, updated and accessed; Luban also organizes information on other industry participants and publishes industry-specific content to our visitors;

--Online marketplace: Luban serves as a neutral market place through which building material suppliers and buyers can advertise, interact and transact; Luban facilitates such transactions through our comprehensive alliances with financial institutions;

--Application services platform: Luban provides web-based, secure application platform for communication and collaboration, business process management and the delivery of up-to-the-minute content among the multiple professional participants in building projects.

An Industry Ideally Suited for e-Business Solutions
The building material industry accounts for nearly 5.5% of China's GDP in 1999, with production value of 385 billion RMB. It is growing at over 8% per annum, driven by construction of roads, bridges, airports, harbors, commercial and residential building, etc.

The building material market is extremely fragmented with over 300,000 registered producers and distributors and more than 100,000 contractors and developers. Due to such fragmentation, the industry is characterized by high information search cost, price distortion and transaction inefficiency. In addition, as building projects are long, complex, and have multiple participants, project management tends to be a highly inefficient and costly process.

Internet-based e-business solutions are ideal to resolve those problems. Luban's e-marketplace feature allows buyers and sellers to publish and access vast amount of information at minimal costs and execute transaction directly; Luban's online project management feature allows building project participants to communicate and collaborate cost effectively and in real time. Thus, Luban offers a compelling value proposition to our customers to help them increase revenue potential, reduce cost, enhance productivity, and improve project management processes. Luban's suite of e-business services has enormous implications for refining the traditional transaction and project management models.

Luban and Its People
Luban takes its name from the legendary Chinese architect, "Master Luban". As reflected by our name, we have high aspirations for our business: we aspire to build the No. 1 building industry online marketplace for building material buyers and sellers; we aspire to develop the No. 1 building industry project management platform for the Chinese building professionals.

Our mission is twofold: to our clients, we offer the best online transaction and application destination to help them reap the rewards from internet-based technological advancement; to our people, we offer the most exciting and motivating environment to grow and develop.

Luban's team is highly talented, experienced and has a strong success track record of delivering high quality professional services. Its founders and top management come from management consulting, building project management software development, internet start-up, high-tech sales and marketing, property development and software engineering backgrounds.

Luban's solid business model and top notch management group have attracted venture capital funding from renowned international investors. And we are expanding our business very aggressively.

Corporate Headquarters
2D Apollo Building, No. 1440 Yan An Zhong Road, Shanghai, China 200040
Tel: (86) 21 6248 5589
Fax: (86) 21 6249 6440
webmaster@luban.com