AGENCY.COM Develops Customer-Centric Online Information and Services Web Site for Skil Power Tools; New Web Site Features "Tools" for Do-It-Yourselfers.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001 AGENCY.COM, Ltd., (Nasdaq: ACOM (language) ACOM - An early system on the IBM 705. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. ) a leading e-business builder in global markets, today announced that it has teamed with S-B S-B Stoer-Bulirsch (sampling algorithm) Power Tool Company, a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of the Bosch Group, to provide online information services See Information Systems. for it's consumer tools brand, Skil(R) power tools. AGENCY.COM will work with Skil power tools to develop a customer-centric website, offering service and information targeted to the brand's consumers - primarily do-it-yourselfers. AGENCY.COM will build the site with feature services designed to appeal to individual users. For example, www.skiltools.com (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. will feature services such as do-it-yourself instructions for home repair projects, display products, accessories, tool help, online warranty information, an expanded customer service area, and other information of interest to tool users. "We're very pleased to be partnering with AGENCY.COM to extend our brand interactively with our end users," said Christopher Pfaus, Vice President Brand Marketing, S-B Power Tool Company. "The Skil brand is all about doing it yourself and we want our customers to have the best tools, information and services that we can offer to accomplish this goal." "The vast reach of the Internet will allow Skil power tools to provide its customers with information at anytime and anyplace," said Steve Kise, Vice President and Manufacturing Practice Lead, AGENCY.COM. "We feel this is a great interactive opportunity to familiarize people with the range of products and services provided by Skil power tools." AGENCY.COM announced yesterday that the company had been retained by S-B Power Tool Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bosch Group, to develop and implement interactive initiatives for Bosch power tools, designed and built for the professional tradesman. About S-B Power Tool Company Under the Skil brand, The S-B power Tool company markets a full line of consumer power tools and is a member of The Bosch Group. The Bosch Group is a diversified global company specializing in automotive equipment, communications technology Noun 1. communications technology - the activity of designing and constructing and maintaining communication systems engineering, technology - the practical application of science to commerce or industry , consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and and capital goods Capital Goods Any goods used by an organization to produce other goods. Notes: Examples of capital goods include office buildings, equipment, and machinery. See also: Capital Expenditure, Disinvestment Capital goods . With approximately 180,000 employees worldwide, including more than 14,000 scientists, engineers and technicians, the Robert Bosch Robert Bosch (September 23, 1861 - March 12, 1942) was a German industrialist, founder of Robert Bosch GmbH. Biography Bosch was born in Albeck, a village to the northeast of Ulm in southern Germany. He was the eleventh of twelve children. Group possesses more patents than any other manufacturer in its fields and is known for its quality and precision tool craftsmanship. Skil Power Tools has a long heritage of tool craftsmanship, which began with the invention of the world's first portable electric handsaw, the SkilSaw, in 1924, -- a product that forever changed the construction industry. About AGENCY.COM AGENCY.COM is a leading e-business builder in global markets. The company provides strategy, branding and technology services that help its clients build and grow their interactive business across multiple digital channels -- the Web, wireless and interactive television. Founded in January 1995, AGENCY.COM is headquartered in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and has offices in Amsterdam, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dallas, London, Paris, Portland (OR), San Francisco, Woodbridge (NJ) and affiliate offices in Miami (FL), Seoul, Korea and Singapore. AGENCY.COM serves a broad and diversified global client base in a variety of industries, including 3M, British Airways, Colgate-Palmolive, Compaq, Heineken, Incyte Genomics and Reuters. For investor information, please visit http://www.agency.com/investors or call AGENCY.COM's Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. line at 212.358.2702. To receive press releases going forward, please send contact information to investors@agency.com or call toll free 877.721.3006 for a fax copy. Matters discussed in this release may include forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, and actual results may be materially different. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from anticipated events or results include risk factors and other items that are contained in AGENCY.COM's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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