How to Use business-to-business in a Sentence

business-to-business

noun

• There was nothing about business-to-business, no non-profit, none of that.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2023
• Most of this year’s software companies are business-to-business firms.
  — Ketil Gjerstad, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• Nokia now makes much of its revenue on business-to-business sales, with plans to expand its footprint in the enterprise market.
  — Jennifer Korn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Email is still the cornerstone of business-to-business (B2B) marketing.
  — Paula Chiocchi, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
• The latest scheme is to create a 2.5% business-to-business tax, a tax hidden in the costs of businesses so that those rubes also known as voters may not notice it.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2025
• The moment a new customer signs the dotted line committing to a business-to-business product or service, their optimism is at an all-time high.
  — Paul Holder, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
• The entire gain in subscriptions came from business-to-business partnerships, which grew by 1 million to 4.8 million.
  — Glenn Peoples, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
• Then, seven years ago, Yang opened a Paris shop-in-shop for business-to-business clients, and in 2023 decided to expand the retail concept more aggressively.
  — Jennifer Weil, WWD, 23 July 2024
• Compared to business-to-consumer (B2C), business-to-business (B2B) ideas require a lot more details per element, owing to the complex nature of the problem and the buying process.
  — Mahesh Bellie, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• Currently, the brand is clarifying its direct-to-consumer and business-to-business models to achieve its retail goals.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 12 Aug. 2024
• As a business-to-business solution provider, Iverson Dental Labs has carved out its distinct niche with achievements that go past saving chair time for doctors and patients.
  — Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• The decrease is attributed to lower business-to-business sales, although business-to-consumer sales increased.
  — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2025
• But Carpenter’s bill does not have carve-outs for those spending areas — instead exempting business-to-business transactions from the new tax.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
• The company is putting emphasis on car-sharing and business-to-business services like fleet management.
  — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
• The company’s business-to-business services proved to be the strongest driver of growth, with revenues in that category gaining 11.1 percent.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 5 Nov. 2024
• Zoom in: Executives blamed much of its woes on soft industrial production, which took a toll on the company's business-to-business service.
  — Pete Gannon, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
• For example, many business-to-business or sub-processing contracts will hinge on compliance.
  — Rajat Sharma, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• But the analyst said Shopify’s efforts to build up its business-to-business while also growing market share are examples of the company’s multitude of avenues for growth.
  — Brian Evans, CNBC, 6 May 2025
• Known as the Pulitzer Prizes of business-to-business journalism, the Neal Awards recognize editorial excellence.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2023
• However, private data brokers that sell datasets B2B (business-to-business) require a little more digging.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
• The company negotiates business-to-business shipments for companies with freight to move, matching them with carriers that have the capacity to move them.
  — Joseph Powell, The Enquirer, 7 June 2023
• The increase is attributed to higher demand and new customers in domestic and international business-to-business sales.
  — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
• Like any ambitious transformation, the evolution into business-to-business (B2B) can only be as successful as the people who power it.
  — Katya Laviolette, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
• Ripple is a 12-year-old business-to-business payments firm that does much of its business outside the U.S., serving banks, payments companies and other financial institutions with a need for cross-border payments.
  — Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2024
• The tech tycoon had started out as a teacher before launching Alibaba, a business-to-business platform connecting Chinese merchants with global buyers, in 1999.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2023
• For twenty-four years now, Culture Holidays has been serving this smooth journey as the leading business-to-business tour operator, offering a wide range of travel solutions.
  — Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• One of the factors working in the merging parties’ favor to avoid a lawsuit is that the deal has relatively few consumer-facing components and is primarily a business-to-business relationship.
  — Owen Tedford, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
• Other taxes proposed by the governor or Democratic lawmakers this year — like a new 75-cent fee on retail deliveries purchased online and a new 2.5% tax on a larger area of business-to-business services — are not in the final plan.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
• However, the firm has been increasingly pushing a business-to-business sales model, especially after its takeover by Microsoft in 2018.
  — Ryan Browne, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
• Santhosh and his co-founders had initially considered a marketplace approach, matching buyers with sellers, a model that has worked in business-to-business contracting in many industries.
  — David Prosser, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025