BIGWORDS Adds Partners and Expands Product Categories to Extend Reach Into College Market.Business Editors SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2000 Leading Supplier of All-Things-College Teams With edu.com and AllPosters.com to Offer Outstanding Values on School Technology Essentials and Posters BIGWORDS, a leading lifestyle brand and online destination for the 18-24 year-old college audience, today announced partnerships with edu.com and AllPosters.com that expand its product offering to include computers, peripherals, electronics and posters. BIGWORDS' exclusive technology products partner, edu.com (www.edu.com), is a marketing services company that utilizes a student-only e-commerce site to facilitate partnerships and commerce among students, universities, and Fortune 500 companies. AllPosters.com (www.allposters.com) is the largest online retailer of posters and prints with over 50,000 items including an extensive selection of movies, music, and sports posters, as well as thousands of fine art prints. "BIGWORDS is pleased to be working with both edu.com and AllPosters.com to continue to bring college students the things they want and need," said Matt Johnson, 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. of BIGWORDS. "It makes sense for us to add computers, peripherals, software, electronics and posters to BIGWORDS' existing line-up of products and we will continue to partner with best-of-breed sites." BIGWORDS was named the best online textbook retailer by Yahoo! Internet Life Yahoo! Internet Life was a monthly magazine published by Ziff-Davis, which licensed the name from Yahoo!, a well known search engine website. It was created and launched by Barry Golson, the former executive editor of Playboy and TV guide. in May 2000. BIGWORDS has been ranked the No. 1 online textbook retailer by PC Data Online for nine months running (November 1999-August 2000). In June, BIGWORDS announced an additional $30M in financing from new investors NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. , WPP Group WPP Group plc (LSE: WPP) (NASDAQ: WPPGY), based in London, United Kingdom, is one of the world's largest communications services groups (and one of the big six advertising holding companies, the others being Omnicom, Interpublic, Publicis, Dentsu and Havas) employing , plc and GE Financial Assurance as well as previous investors 21st Century Internet Venture Partners, GeoCapital Partners, Media Technology Ventures Ltd., Attractor Investor Management, Trans Cosmos cosmos (kŏz`məs), any plant of the tropical American genus Cosmos of the family Asteraceae (aster family). C. bipinnatus, USA, Inc. and St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Venture Capital. About BIGWORDS BIGWORDS is a leading lifestyle brand and online destination for 18-24 year olds (and anyone who thinks they're 18-24). With its innovative blend of top products -- from textbooks and music to clothes and accessories -- and engaging content, BIGWORDS is primed to quickly become the No. 1 destination for 18-24 year olds by delivering the right stuff with the right attitude. BIGWORDS broke into the textbook market in August 1998, quickly establishing itself as a winning brand for college students. With an eye on the larger opportunity, BIGWORDS built on its textbook foundation and swiftly expanded its focus to offer this audience other products of interest, services and content all delivered in BIGWORDS style. Vowing to counter the disturbing lack of personality characteristic of today's typical online experience, BIGWORDS creates an engaging, ever-changing environment that keeps visitors coming back. BIGWORDS is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with funding from NBC, WPP Group, plc, GE Financial Assurance, 21st Century Internet Venture Partners, GeoCapital Partners, Media Technology Ventures Ltd., Attractor Investor Management, Trans Cosmos USA, Inc. and St. Paul Venture Capital. About edu.com edu.com (www.edu.com) is a marketing services company that utilizes a "student-only" e-commerce site to facilitate partnerships and commerce among students, universities, and Fortune 500 companies. At edu.com verified college students receive exclusive "student-only" pricing on brand name products and services, objective content that facilitates smart purchase decisions, 24/7 customer service, and eduPoints for purchases and other online transactions redeemable for prizes. edu.com provides Fortune 500 companies a secure environment for commerce transactions and relationship building with students. For higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. institutions, edu.com offers a turnkey See turnkey system. online commerce solution. Key edu.com products and services include: computers, peripherals, software, electronics, bank services, phone and Internet services, credit cards and more. Select partners include AT&T, Adobe, Apple, Citibank, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Iomega, Microsoft, Toshiba and many others. Founded in 1998 and privately held, edu.com is located in Boston. The Mayfield Fund Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, home to many of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms. Mayfield was founded in 1969 by Tommy Davis, one of the first venture capitalists. , Information Technology Ventures, Student Advantage and HarbourVest Partners are principal investors in edu.com. About AllPosters.com AllPosters.com is the largest retailer of posters and prints on the Internet. AllPosters.com currently offers the broadest and most up-to-date selection of popular posters online, including movies, music, and sports. AllPosters.com also offers over 45,000 art prints across a broad range of categories, such as fine art, photography, floral flo·ral adj. Of, relating to, or suggestive of a flower: a fabric with a floral pattern. flo , and vintage images. Such diverse product offerings have made AllPosters.com a leading destination for consumers of art prints and the leading destination for posters among youth and college students. AllPosters.com was founded in 1998 in Berkeley, Calif., and is privately held. |
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