Beth Collins Named Vice President and General Manager of Disney's Family.com.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 22, 1999--

Beth Collins was named vice president and general manager of Disney's Family.com, it was announced today by Chuck Davis, president, eCommerce at Disney's Buena Vista Internet Group. In this capacity, Ms. Collins will oversee Family.com's transition from a parenting resource focusing on content and community to a full-service content, community and e-commerce destination for families.

"Family.com has had great success in building deep affinity relationships with a loyal and highly desirable family demographic," said Davis. "Beth's broad experience in managing both content and strategic growth initiatives makes her an excellent choice to lead and execute our vision to combine the best in content and commerce on Family.com."

Family.com, which was launched in December 1996 and quickly became the Internet's most popular online parenting information and content service, will expand its strategic mission to become a fully-featured destination for families that incorporates broad e-commerce offerings into deep content and community services. In addition to useful parenting resources and information, visitors will be able to use Family.com for a number of additional tasks, including booking vacations, making purchases and finding activities for the family. In addition, Disney's recent purchase of a majority equity stake in toysmart.com will enable users to seamlessly purchase high-quality, hard-to-find toys directly from Family.com.

Previously, Ms. Collins was the consumer marketing director at Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine, where she managed all consumer marketing activities, including online subscription sales.

Prior to that, she was general manager of FamilyPC magazine, a joint venture of The Walt Disney Company and Ziff-Davis, Inc, where she was responsible for the strategic planning, forecasting, production and marketing of the magazine. Ms. Collins began her tenure at FamilyPC as circulation director where she oversaw the consumer launch of the magazine. Before joining FamilyPC, Ms. Collins spent eight years with Time, Inc., where she held a series of increasingly responsible positions in consumer marketing, finance and new business development.

Ms. Collins holds a Master's degree from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Georgetown University. She also completed the Magazine Publishing Program at the Medill Graduate School of Journalism, also at Northwestern University, and serves as a trustee for the George F. Baker Scholar program at Georgetown.

Family.com combines top-quality editorial content with a network of more than 100 regional parenting publications and provides families with a comprehensive and customized parenting guide, offering information on various aspects of parenting including education. In addition, Family.com provides ideas on family fun in the areas of activities, travel and food. Interactive elements such as chats, bulletin boards, cookbooks and interactive greeting cards have established a significant and active online community of families. Family.com is part of Buena Vista Internet Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS). Buena Vista Internet Group recently announced an agreement with Infoseek Corporation (NASDAQ: SEEK) to create a new Internet business called Go.com.