TimesFirst’s all-new model for international commercial outsourcing has attracted a significant number of members from the export supplier sector. By April 25, 2007, the number of member suppliers around the world using TimesFirst’s e-commerce platforms and international marketing outsourcing services stood at 4,560. TimesFirst.com is highly innovative; its international industry based competitiveness ranking system of businesses (TimesFirst Ranking) is the first of its kind in the world. TimesFirst.com is also thefirst E-commerce platform in the world to provide both the buyers and sellers in international trade with industry based competitiveness rankings.

TimesFirst Ranking ranks of all its seller members by calculating their respective degrees of user attention (i.e. the visitation rate of their enterprise information and product information pages). Ranking time-sequence graphs are made for each member based on calculated rankings in TimesFirst.com (as a whole), its general trade and its sub-trade. This works to provide buyers with a reliable third party reference regarding the competitiveness of the related enterprises. Thanks to supplier rankings provided by TimesFirst.com, buyers can now select suppliers in their respective fields with unprecedented ease. At present, more than 600,000 international buyers around the world are searching for suppliers using such rankings.