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MFG.com is a global online manufacturing marketplace. The company reportedly has more than 200,000 members around the world. Members include buyers, engineers, sourcing professionals, job shops and contract manufacturers. The company headquarters is in Atlanta and the company also has offices in Paris and Shanghai. MFG.com is privately held company. The company currently employs 80 people worldwide. ==History== MFG.com was founded by Mitch Free in 1999 with the first site transaction taking place on February 14, 2000. Mitch began his career as a machinist and a mechanical engineer. After time spent producing metal stamping dies and plastic injection molds, he moved to reverse engineering and producing aircraft parts at Northwest Airlines in the early 1990s. An early adopter of CAD/CAM, Free was always looking for ways software technology could improve manufacturing. His first company, 3DATUM (), produced CNC software applications to automate machine tools. While there, Free recognized a major need in the marketplace. Free’s design customers were asking him if he knew someone who could manufacture what they designed, and his manufacturing customers were asking him if he could introduce them to potential customers who needed something manufactured. After hearing a radio commercial for LendingTree.com, Mitch decided to build an online manufacturing marketplace, and MFG.com was born. Free bootstrapped the entire venture and gradually acquired and retained customers growing the company to a profitable business. In 2005, MFG.com accepted an investment from Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SeattlePI - Bezox Invests In MFG.com )〕 In June 2006, MFG.com acquired Geneva based SourcingParts.com.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cadalyst - MFG.com Acquires Europe's SourcingParts.com )〕 In October 2006, the MFG.com opened its second largest office in Shanghai.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Inc. - How to get ahead in China )〕 In 2007, Fidelity Ventures invested in the company. Mitch Free still serves as the CEO of the company. Members of Bezos Expeditions and Fidelity Ventures currently sit on the board, and in September 2012, General Wesley Clark joined the board as well. MFG.com was named by Business 2.0 as one of the 15 companies that will change the world in 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「MFG.com」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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