About
Tradeplace
Founded in 2001 by a consortium of manufacturers who recognized the need to make doing business easier for everyone, Tradeplace now has over 25 years of experience in optimizing the digital value chain.
Since then, Tradeplace B.V. has become an independent company based at Schiphol, The Netherlands. Tradeplace now provides advanced, standardized and easy to implement cloud based B2B Commerce & Content solutions that increase revenues and reduce costs.
The Tradeplace team works diligently every day to enhance its solutions portfolio and co‑innovate with manufacturers and retailers, delivering new solutions shaped by market demands and customer needs.
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> 20
team members
> 35.000
retailer users in Europe
>500.000.000
transactions in 2025
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Maximillian Franz
Solutions Owner Content & AI
News
14 January 2026
In the final months of 2025, we’ve been busy transforming Tradeplace.com into a more powerful, user-friendly gateway to the services our customers rely on every day. Our mission?...
21 December 2025
As we close 2025, we reflect on a year of digital growth and invite you to share your perspective in a short 30–60 second survey to help shape Tradeplace in 2026. We want to take...
9 January 2023
Miele and Tradeplace are pleased to announce they have entered into an international strategic partnership. The German headquartered manufacturer of premium home appliances will...
30 August 2022
Access to 2.374 resellers with Tradeplace's Sales Portal Service in Switzerland Premium Swiss quality brand V-ZUG has joined Tradeplace’s Sales Portal service in Switzerland. By...
13 March 2022
Tradeplace, the B2B eBusiness one-stop-shop for manufacturers and retailers, appointed Karel van der Horst as general manager and spokesman of the management team starting on...
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1 June 2021
Hisense UK joins Tradeplace’s e-ordering solution Chinese manufacturer Hisense has joined Tradeplace’s Direct Connection as part of their order management improvement process. A...
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17 May 2021
Tradeplace: the platform for the electrical appliance trade The early 2000s began with big expectations for internet services. The internet had already become an indispensable...
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18 February 2021
New EU energy labels required March 1, 2021 On February 18, 2021 Tradeplace successfully launched its Tradeplace PI 17 functionality to ensure its Product Information Management...
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23 November 2020
E-ordering simplifies complex order management in this very demanding market Duravit, a leading supplier in the luxury designer sanitary ware market, has selected Tradeplace’s...
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16 November 2020
New EU energy labels mandated as of March 1, 2021 Tradeplace is preparing its Product Information Management System (PIMS) to meet the EU’s new energy labelling requirements. The...
Tradelog
TradePI 26.5.0 (PI 18) is a major update of the TradePI standard. This release improves multilingual support introduces a cleaner identifier-based structure, and strengthens...
29 December 2025
The EU’s VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) initiative will bring mandatory structured e‑Invoicing and e‑Reporting to every Member State between 2026 and 2035. The rules will roll out...