Airgas Wins Standard of Excellence WebAward from Web Marketing Association.Business Editors RADNOR, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 18, 2002 Airgas, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ARG See argument. arg - argument ) today announced that it has won the Standard of Excellence WebAward from the Web Marketing Association. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in web site development. Airgas was honored for its year-old eBusiness website, http://b2b.airgas.com/. At the website, registered customers can browse a comprehensive electronic catalog of gases, welding supplies, safety products and related MRO MRO In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Mauritanian Ouguiya. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. products. Included are the majority of the 200,000 stocked items in Airgas' inventory. Airgas currently has 5,000 corporate accounts and 6,000 users of its product catalog. Customers can quickly search through products and compare product information side-by-side. Through a "My Catalog" feature, customers can create their own catalog of commonly ordered products, and review order status, customer-specific pricing, and past invoices. "This award in the first year of our eBusiness site demonstrates our commitment to enhance the ease of our customers' experience, said Kelly Justice, vice president of eBusiness for Airgas. "Our b2b site makes it easier for customers to do business with Airgas, giving them greater flexibility and control in all stages of the procurement process." "Good, useful site. Clean, easy navigability nav·i·ga·ble adj. 1. Sufficiently deep or wide to provide passage for vessels: navigable waters; a navigable river. 2. That can be steered. Used of boats, ships, or aircraft. . Well laid out, well thought out, also. You're obviously drawing from a quite extensive database," said one WebAward judge's comment. A record 1,300 sites from 19 countries were judged during the 6th annual WebAward competition. Each WebAward entry is judged against a standard of excellence and then against other entries in the category. The entries were judged on the following criteria: design, innovation, content, technology, interactivity, navigation and ease of use. About Airgas, Inc. Airgas, Inc. (NYSE:ARG) is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, welding, safety and related products. Its integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. of nearly 800 locations includes branches, retail stores, gas fill plants, specialty gas labs, production facilities and distribution centers. Airgas also distributes its products and services through eBusiness, catalog and telesales channels. Its national scale and strong local presence offer a competitive edge to its diversified customer base. For more information, please visit www.airgas.com. About the Web Marketing Association The Web Marketing Association (WMA (Windows Media Audio) An audio compression method from Microsoft. Known originally as MSAudio, this proprietary format competes with the MP3 and AAC methods. WMA encodes rapidly and is known to be especially effective at low bit rates. ) was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing See Internet advertising. and corporate web development on the World Wide Web. The WMA is the producer of the WebAwards, an annual award competition that is designed to judge corporate Web sites against an Internet standard An Internet standard is a specification for an innovative internetworking technology or methodology, which the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified as an open standard after the innovation underwent peer review. and against peer sites within their industry. |
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