All-Clad Metalcrafters and Meals.com Kick-off Sweepstakes and Recipes in New Cross Promotions.Business Editors, Food & Retail Writers BELLEVUE, Wash. & CANONSBURG, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 Meals.com Inc., an online provider of recipes and meal planning tools and a subsidiary of Coinstar (Nasdaq:CSTR CSTR Centre for Speech Technology Research CSTR Canister CSTR Continually Stirred Tank Reactor CSTR Center for Software Testing Research (Florida Tech) CSTR Combat System Trial Rehearsal (US DoD) ), and All-Clad Metalcrafters, America's premier cookware manufacturer today announced an agreement to feature their respective recipes and products in online and offline promotions. Meals.com is conducting its first online sweepstakes sweepstakes, contest or race, usually a horse race, on which a lottery is run. Prizes are awarded to the holders of winning tickets. In the case of a horse race, the draw is made from the names of all the horses entered in the race and vast numbers of blanks. , offering a variety of All-Clad(R) Cookware products as prizes. The sweepstakes rules and entry information can be found on the Meals.com Web site at www.meals.com. In turn, All-Clad is exclusively featuring Meals.com recipes in a special brochure that will be included with more than 10,000 special "One Pot For Two" 2.5-quart casseroles. The recipe brochure, entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: "One Pot for Two," will highlight quick and easy recipes that can be prepared in a single pot or skillet. "What makes this partnership unique is the online exposure for All-Clad products to the Meals.com user base in conjunction with the print distribution of Meals.com recipes to All-Clad customers," said John Melin, vice president of business development for Meals.com. "By cross promoting in our different venues, both companies are reaching a new source for potential customers." "The Meals.com recipes selected to accompany our new `One Pot For Two' casserole offer a variety of fast and easy dinner ideas that fit the lifestyle and tastes of today's home cooks," said Catherine Fischer Fi·scher , Hans 1881-1945. German chemist known for his research on the components of blood. He won a 1930 Nobel Prize for his work on the synthesis of hemin. , vice president of sales and marketing for All-Clad Metalcrafters. "We're excited to offer food savvy consumers a complete product offer that provides all the tools needed to make simple yet delicious meals at home." About All-Clad Metalcrafters Based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania Canonsburg is a borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Pittsburgh. Canonsburg was laid out by Colonel John Canon in 1789 and incorporated in 1802. It was the central point of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. , All-Clad Metalcrafters markets five lines of premium quality cookware to department and specialty stores Noun 1. specialty store - a store that sells only one kind of merchandise shop, store - a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod" in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , along with a new line of premium All-Clad Bonded Bakeware, All-Clad All-Professional kitchen tools, and a growing assortment assortment /as·sort·ment/ (ah-sort´ment) the random distribution of nonhomologous chromosomes to daughter cells in metaphase of the first meiotic division. as·sort·ment n. of kitchen accessories. Featuring a unique metal bonding process, All-Clad cookware is used in many of the finest restaurants in America, and is sought by serious home cooks seeking all-professional cookware to enhance their cooking experience. About Meals.com Meals.com Inc. connects consumers, grocery stores and manufacturers through online and in-store technologies that provide shoppers with relevant information and special offers based on their personal preferences. The Meals.com network of private label Web sites includes agreements or letters of intent with supermarket retailers representing more than 8,100 stores with an estimated 70-million customers, as well as a growing list of women's Web sites and portals. Meals.com is a subsidiary of Coinstar Inc. (Nasdaq:CSTR), a coin counting and e-services company. This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve a number of risks and uncertainties relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the business of Coinstar and its majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. Meals.com, including statements about Meals.com's future performance with respect to customer contracts. The words "believe", "expect", "intend", "anticipate", variations of such words, and similar expressions identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that the statement is not forward-looking. Actual results could differ materially from the results identified or implied in any forward-looking statement discussed herein. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, Meals.com's ability to execute on its contracts and its ability to attract and retain retailers, the continued consolidation of Meals.com's losses by Coinstar, uncertainties related to the exploration by Coinstar of strategic alternatives for Coinstar and Meals.com, the ability to obtain new agreements with potential retail partners for the installation of Coinstar units, the successful deployment and operation of Coinstar's coin processing network, and customer utilization of Coinstar's service. Certain of these risks and other risks are more fully described under the caption "Risk Factors" included in the most recent reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Coinstar, Inc. |
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