Central Garden and Pet Selects Critical Path for Outsourced Corporate Messaging.Business Editors/Internet Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 Announcement Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) today announced a multi-year enterprise agreement with Central Garden & Pet Company (Nasdaq:CENT) for multiple Internet messaging services, including Critical Path's InScribe in·scribe tr.v. in·scribed, in·scrib·ing, in·scribes 1. a. To write, print, carve, or engrave (words or letters) on or in a surface. b. To mark or engrave (a surface) with words or letters. (TM) Email Messaging service and InScribe(TM) Secure File Services. Importance By leveraging Critical Path's outsourced messaging services, the more than 4,000 employees of Central Garden & Pet will be able to securely send, store, access, and collaborate on critical business information about customers, products, and operating performance. Critical Path's InScribe Secure File Services will also provide the sales force of Central Garden & Pet with a secure and centrally located information repository An information repository is an easy to deploy secondary tier of data storage that can comprise multiple, networked data storage technologies running on diverse operating systems, where data that no longer needs to be in primary storage is protected, classified according to captured accessible from the road to obtain the most current pricing, promotion, and product catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. information. Background The Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. predicts that by 2001, 65 percent of U.S. based corporations will outsource all or part of their messaging needs. Corporations are increasingly turning to a Critical Path as a single-source provider for corporate messaging because Critical Path is the only company that can provide the complete range of end-to-end messaging solutions that meet the demands of enterprise market. About Critical Path, Inc. Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:CPTH) is the dominant global provider of complete end to-end Internet messaging and collaboration solutions for wireless, Internet-centric, telecommunication and corporate businesses. Through its allsourcing strategy, Critical Path is the only advanced messaging provider to offer businesses the flexibility to outsource, midsource or insource all or part of their messaging and collaboration applications. Critical Path is 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 offices worldwide. More information on Critical Path can be found at www.cp.net. For more information, contact Roger Fortier (media relations) at McGrath/Power PR, 408/727-0351, e-mail: rogerf@mcgpr.com; Steve Eldridge (media relations) at Critical Path, 415/344-5537, e-mail: seldridge@cp.net; Don Markley (investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. ) at Critical Path, 415/344-5503, e-mail: don.markley@cp.net. Note to Editors: Critical Path and the Critical Path logo are the trademarks of Critical Path, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their holders. The statements in this release relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc matters that are not historical are 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. . Actual results could differ materially from these forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties facing Critical Path are described in its prospectus dated June 1, 1999 and with its periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (www.sec.gov). |
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