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
  • His company does both business-to-consumer and business-to-business worldwide.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • 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
  • Ultimately, the tax, originally proposed as a business-to-business tax, was expanded to include IT sales to consumers as well, and passed.
    Danielle J. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2025
  • 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
  • As a business-to-business vendor, Episource operates in the background, working with insurers and healthcare providers, not with patients directly.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 June 2025
  • For example, many business-to-business or sub-processing contracts will hinge on compliance.
    Rajat Sharma, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • At my company, a business-to-business marketplace connecting businesses and agencies, our goal has never been just about clicks.
    Gianluca Ferruggia, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • As part of their expansion into business-to-business sales, the Stoggles team launched a grassroots outreach campaign to hospitals and universities.
    Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 11 June 2025
  • 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 most obvious use cases for stablecoins include peer-to-peer payments, business-to-business payments and cross-border payments and remittances, according to Well Fargo.
    Tanaya MacHeel, CNBC, 29 May 2025

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