BCT International Inc. Announces 100,000 Orders Placed on Orderprinting.com; Internet-Based Print Ordering Solution, Orderprinting.com, Reaches Milestone.Business Editors FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 1, 2000 Business Cards Tomorrow Inc., a Florida Corporation ("BCT BCT Brigade Combat Team BCT Basic Combat Training BCT Best Conventional Pollutant Control Technology (EPA) BCT Business Cards Tomorrow BCT Banque Centrale de Tunisie (Central Bank of Tunisia) ") and subsidiary of BCT International (Nasdaq:BCTI BCTI Business Computer Training Institute BCTI Battlefield Control Terminal Interface ) announced today that customers have processed 100,000 orders on Orderprinting.com(tm), an Internet-based stationery ordering solution developed and owned by BCT. "BCT is a network of franchised wholesale printers that has traditionally serviced retail printers and office superstores serving the small office/home office See SOHO. market segment," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Peter Gaughn, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We introduced Orderprinting.com(tm) in early 1999 to print brokers and facilities management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. companies, as well as our traditional customers serving corporate America as part of our strategy to build our presence with this very large market segment." Mid-size and large corporate end users utilize print brokers and facilities management companies as a single point of contact for their print needs. Using Orderprinting.com(tm) allows companies to order stationery products such as business cards, letterhead and envelopes over the internet. Orders are received electronically, manufactured and delivered to the customer. Print brokers are relieved of much of the transaction work traditionally associated with the print ordering process and end users see benefit in ease of ordering, accuracy and faster turnaround. "There is a great opportunity in business to business internet e-commerce. We are very pleased that Orderprinting.com(tm) has been received so well by the marketplace," said Bill Wilkerson, chairman of BCT. "Approximately 3,000 companies are using Orderprinting.com(tm) today. Our order growth over the past few months has been increasing at a rate of 16% per month," according to Pete Posk, vice president of Marketing. "These numbers compare quite favorably to industry benchmarks." "BCT has also integrated Orderprinting.com(tm) with other back end services such as consolidated billing and reporting," stated Scott Koegler, vice president of Information Technology. "We have 87 Franchises throughout North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and in Argentina. By combining technology solutions with local manufacturing and low cost distribution, we have an exciting click & mortar model." BCT International Inc. is a holding company which operates Business Cards Tomorrow, the world's largest wholesale printing chain, with 87 Franchises in the United States, Canada and Argentina. The company is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, and its common stock trades on Nasdaq under the symbol "BCTI." This press release includes statements that may constitute "forward-looking" statements, usually containing the words "believe", "estimate", "project", "expect" or similar expressions. These statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements inherently involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Factors that would cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, continued acceptance of the Company's products in the marketplace, competitive factors, new products and technological changes, product prices and raw material costs, dependence upon third-party vendors, and other risks detailed in the Company's periodic report filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release. |
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