Cereal Tops February List of Most Popular Coupon Categories According to Coupons.com.Value of Coupons Printed in February Surges 120% Over 2008 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Coupons.com, the leading network for digital coupons, today released the list of most popular coupon categories for February 2009. Based on the number of coupon prints by category across the Coupons.com publisher network, the most popular coupons printed last month were for ready to eat cereal, with yogurt and salty snacks rounding out the top three. The ready to eat cereal category also led the list in January 2009. Yogurt climbed to the #2 spot from #4 and salty snacks rose from #7 a month ago to #3. Sweet snacks fell off the February list, after ranking #9 in January 2009. Shoppers printed $39 million in savings from the Coupons.com publisher network in February, an increase of $21 million, or 120%, since February 2008. Regionally, more coupons were printed in the South Atlantic than in any other region last month. The other top regions were (in order): East North Central, Mid-Atlantic, West South Central, Pacific, West North Central, Mountain, East South Central and New England New England, name applied to the region comprising six states of the NE United States—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region is thought to have been so named by Capt. . The use of digital coupons has grown nationwide. Over 40 million people currently print online coupons See e-centives. , up 20% from last year 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. Simmons Market Research Bureau. In the same time period, the number of people that only print coupons from the Internet and never use newspaper coupons has risen a dramatic 46% to 6 million. Coupons.com is the #1 site on the Internet for Coupons/Rewards according to Nielsen NetRatings. The Coupons.com publisher network reaches more than 75 million consumers through thousands of websites, including Coupons.com and shopper's favorite name brand websites and grocery and drug store sites. "Millions of consumers looking to save money in these tough times are becoming coupon clickers instead of clippers," said Steven R. Boal, 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 Coupons, Inc. "As more and more households are looking to eat at home to reduce their budgets and looking to save money on those home-cooked meals, we are seeing record increases in traffic, new users and coupon prints. Consumers clearly appreciate the always available convenience of online coupons and are going online more frequently to print the coupons that are added daily." Graphic: http://www.couponsinc.com/febcoupons.jpg Coupons.com February 2009 Top Coupon Categories 1. Ready to Eat Cereal 2. Yogurt 3. Salty Snacks 4. Personal Care 5. Portable Snacks 6. Baking Ingredients 7. Frozen Vegetables 8. Nutritional/Diet 9. Carbonated Soft Drinks 10. Bathroom Tissue About Coupons.com Coupons.com is the premier savings site on the Web, with more than 14 million unique monthly visitors according to Compete.com. The average consumer can save more than $2,000 a year using coupons printed from Coupons.com and the Coupons.com network. The site carries offers from hundreds of top brands, (such as Johnson & Johnson, General Mills  This article or section may contain a proseline.Please help [ convert this timeline] into prose or, if necessary, a . , Kimberly-Clark, Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and the second largest in the world after Nestlé SA. The Philip Morris Company (now known as Altria Group), a company that produces tobacco products, acquired Kraft for and Clorox) and works with hundreds of retailers (including Kroger, Safeway, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. and Kmart). Coupons.com also provides recipes, a Facebook application and savings advice from Family Savings Expert Kim Danger. Coupons.com was launched in 1998 by Coupons, Inc. and is based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . About Coupons, Inc. Coupons, Inc. is the global leader in interactive coupon solutions, providing clients with complete coupon promotional opportunities that appeal to key customer demographics. The Company's innovative marketing technology solutions help top brands and retailers reach consumers on thousands of Web sites with the most flexible, effective and secure alternative to offline-delivered coupons. Coupons, Inc. clients and licensees include the majority of top consumer packaged goods Noun 1. packaged goods - groceries that are packaged for sale foodstuff, grocery - (usually plural) consumer goods sold by a grocer plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one companies such as Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft Foods, McDonalds and Clorox as well as hundreds of grocery retailers including Kroger, Safeway, CVS and Kmart. Coupons.com, its consumer website, is the largest printable print·a·ble adj. 1. Capable of being printed or of producing a print: printable negatives. 2. Fit for publication: printable language. coupon website on the Internet. Based in Mountain View, CA, the company is a 2008 winner of the Red Herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: 100 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. award, recognized as a company leading the next wave of innovation on the Internet. To start printing coupons, visit www.coupons.com. To learn more about Coupons, Inc. visit www.couponsinc.com. |
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