ChannelAdvisor and Improving Futures Announce Comprehensive Partnership for UK Market.RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. and LONDON -- ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of channel management solutions (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ), today announced a partnership with Improving Futures. Improving Futures specializes in helping companies setup See BIOS setup and install program. and develop online sales channels for their products. The partnership will create a joint offering, with Improving Futures providing comprehensive branding and account management services while leveraging the ChannelAdvisor software. "Improving Futures adds real value to businesses by providing them with eBay and ecommerce training, consultancy, design & automation services," said Improving Futures Director of Sales, Mark Craig. "Leveraging our relationship with ChannelAdvisor, we look forward to helping our clients generate incremental Additional or increased growth, bulk, quantity, number, or value; enlarged. Incremental cost is additional or increased cost of an item or service apart from its actual cost. business & acquire new customers." David Sullivan
David Sullivan , Managing Director of Improving Futures, added, "We are delighted to be partnering with ChannelAdvisor and we look forward to developing and growing our service offerings together in 2006." Additionally the companies are announcing several strategic joint customers including: --TJ Hughes - With over 40 branches across the UK and an annual turnover in excess of GBP GBP In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 200m, TJ Hughes needed an automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. solution to capture the rapidly expanding audience provided by eBay UK. The first of many major high street brands entering the eBay marketplace. TJ Hughes are already selling as much on their "eBay shop" as they are on there own web site (as stated in the following BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. news article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4550056.stm) TJ Hughes high-street presence and trusted family values family values pl.n. The moral and social values traditionally maintained and affirmed within a family. will ensure its future success, securing its position as a forward-thinking retailer. TJ Hughes is available on eBay via: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/TJ-Hughes and their ecommerce store is at: http://stores.channeladvisor.com/tjhughes --HaveYouSeenThis - With a strong existing eBay presence and a huge volume of sales, HaveYouSeenThis needed a fully automated solution so as to embrace multiple marketplaces without the need for taking on new staff. The eBay shop (http://stores.ebay.co.uk/haveyouseenthis) is one of the most advanced on eBay and the ChannelAdvisor storefront (http://www.haveyouseenthiscorporate.co.uk) is equally as impressive. --Brewin - With a brand several generations old and a unique product offering, Brewin wanted their eBay presence to look fantastic and have the fully automated functionality offered by the ChannelAdvisor Merchant platform. They also wanted continuity across all storefronts to support their branding & philosophy. Brewin can be found on eBay at: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/WB-SOCKS and their ChannelAdvisor store is: http://www.wbrewin.co.uk "This partnership combines ChannelAdvisor's powerful software platform with the experience of Improving Futures in helping companies develop and implement effective online strategies, particularly through new channels such as eBay," said Jennifer Gibson, General Manager, International at ChannelAdvisor. "Improving Futures will help us bring our channel management software to the growing number of UK businesses looking to sell through multiple online sales channels." About Improving Futures Improving Futures provide businesses with eBay and ecommerce training, consultancy, design & automation services helping our clients generate incremental business & acquire new customers. For more information, visit http://www.improvingfutures.co.uk/ About ChannelAdvisor Corporation ChannelAdvisor Corporation provides technology and services that enable industry-leading retailers and manufactures to sell their products across multiple online marketplaces such as eBay, Amazon.com, Overstock.com, comparison shopping engines such as Shopping.com, Shopzilla, Nextag and Froogle and search engines such as Google and Yahoo! ChannelAdvisor processes over $90m/month (greater than $1B/yr) in gross merchandise volume Gross Merchandise Volume or GMV is a term used in online retailing to indicate a total sales dollar amount for merchandise sold through a particular marketplace over a certain time frame. Popular auction sites like eBay and Overstock. on behalf of its customers. ChannelAdvisor solutions combine best practices, innovative software applications and integration technology to dramatically accelerate online channel sales. ChannelAdvisor's customers include 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) , Best Buy, Sears and Motorola. ChannelAdvisor Corporation is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, NC with offices in Seattle, United Kingdom and Germany. For more information, visit http://www.channeladvisor.com/. |
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