How to Use business-to-business in a Sentence

business-to-business

noun
  • That’s more of a business-to-business pathway.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • The opaque nature of the cost of these chips in a business-to-business context is undeniable.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 June 2026
  • 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
  • His company does both business-to-consumer and business-to-business worldwide.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 June 2025
  • Readers may be surprised to find that many of the stocks chosen for Ankrum’s coffee can are those of business-to-business companies.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 1 Apr. 2026
  • That means the initial use will likely be limited to business-to-business scenarios rather than retail investors.
    — John Liu, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
  • For example, many business-to-business or sub-processing contracts will hinge on compliance.
    — Rajat Sharma, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The quarterly strength was driven by its business-to-business and advertising segments.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • The company is putting emphasis on car-sharing and business-to-business services like fleet management.
    — Peter Vanham, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
  • 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 decrease is attributed to lower business-to-business sales, although business-to-consumer sales increased.
    — Quartz Intelligence Newsroom, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Over the past decade, podcasting has emerged as an essential forum for business-to-business and fan communications.
    — William Earl, Variety, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Then Anthropic released Claude, a business-to-business product.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • Email is still the cornerstone of business-to-business (B2B) marketing.
    — Paula Chiocchi, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • The biggest fallacy in B2B marketing is the idea of business-to-business itself.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 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
  • In 1878, AmEx launched business-to-business shipping specialties.
    — Nancy Cutler, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The increase is attributed to higher demand and new customers in domestic and international business-to-business sales.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Finally, there is my favorite, Anthropic, a business-to-business company that is perhaps the fastest-growing company of all time, at least at this scale.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Get Blue is designed to be a longterm platform that enables companies across consumer and business-to-business sectors to treat water as a core operating and market issue.
    — Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 20 Jan. 2026
  • At the time, business-to-business commerce was one of the largest and oldest systems in the world, moving trillions of dollars through paper, phone calls, and processes that had barely changed in generations.
    — Keith Krach, Fortune, 7 June 2026
  • However, private data brokers that sell datasets B2B (business-to-business) require a little more digging.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2025
  • 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

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