B2bstores.com Retains Investment Banking Firm; Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin to Explore Strategic Alternatives.Business Editors LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 b2bstores.com (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on SmallCap: BTBC BTBC Big Trail Bike Club BTBC Brain-Work of Budlet Community (Bangladesh) ) a business-to-business e-commerce firm, announced that its Board of Directors has hired the investment banking firm of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin to review strategic alternatives available to the company and its shareholders. Among the alternatives that Houlihan Lokey will research will be acquisitions, mergers and other alliances that will help the company execute its growth strategy. About b2bstores.com b2bstores.com, a comprehensive business-to-business Internet destination for organizations of all sizes, delivers top-quality business-related products and services combined with valuable information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. through a complete, integrated, user-friendly web site. In addition, b2bstores.com offers its Integrated Merchandising Solution (IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. ), which provides complete e-commerce solutions for businesses. IMS creates a marketplace featuring the products, services, and content selected by a business under a fully branded, co-branded, or private label offering. Located in downtown Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It borders Orange County on its southeast edge. It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. , b2bstores.com is traded on the NASDAQ SmallCap Market under the symbol "BTBC." For more information, please visit the web site at www.b2bstores.com. This 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 are subject to risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product demand and market acceptance, reliance on key strategic alliances, fluctuations in operating results and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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