CheckFree Named Recipient of 2000 Georgia 'eward'.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2000 CheckFree Named Best Large Public Company After Year of Strategic Advancement and Market Growth CheckFree Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CKFR CKFR Checkfree Corporation (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the leading provider of financial electronic commerce software and services, has been awarded the eward for "Best Large Public Company in Georgia 2000" by the Technology Associate of Georgia (TAG) and the Atlanta Business Chronicle. TAG made the announcement at the second annual ewards held in Atlanta on December 7, 2000. The finalists and winners were selected by the editorial board of the Atlanta Business Chronicle after they reviewed the achievements of organizations within the growing business technology community in metro-Atlanta and the state of Georgia that have had significant impact on their particular industry, and have made positive contributions to the culture, competitiveness and professional climate of Georgia's business community. The finalists for this year's award in the category included Delta Airlines and ChoicePoint, Inc. Last year's winner of the Georgia eward in Best Public Large Company was Powertel, Inc. Pete Sinisgalli, CheckFree president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , accepted the award on behalf of the company's nearly 3,000 associates. "CheckFree has had an exciting year, with challenges and successes in which many customers and partners played a role, and we share this award with them," said Sinisgalli. "Importantly, our 3,000-plus associates deserve recognition for the company receiving this award. Our tremendously talented associates have driven our success to date, and will lead us to even greater success in the future." Additional winners of the 2000 ewards, in other categories, included Cox Enterprises Cox Enterprises is the successor to the publishing company founded in Dayton, Ohio, by James Middleton Cox, who began with the Dayton Daily News. The company is private, 98% controlled by the octogenarian daughter of Cox, Anne Cox Chambers, and the two children of her late , Manhattan Associates Manhattan Associates is a supply chain management software provider. It was founded in 1990 in Manhattan Beach, California from where it borrows its name. The company has been headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, since 1995 and operates offices around the world. (Nasdaq: MANH MANH Manhattan Associates, Inc. (stock symbol) ), Scientific-Atlanta (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SFA See sales force automation. SFA - Sales Force Automation ), United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. (NYSE: UPS) and Novient. In its December 8 issue, the Atlanta Business Chronicle profiled the ewards winner in each category. To access the story on CheckFree, visit http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2000/12/11/focus3.html or http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/. About CheckFree CheckFree (www.checkfree.com) is the leading provider of financial electronic commerce services and products. Founded in 1981, CheckFree launched the first fully integrated electronic billing and payment solution in 1997. Today, CheckFree enables 4.1 million consumers to receive and pay bills electronically. The company has multi-year contracts with 210 of the nation's top billers to provide online billing and payment through nearly 250 consumer service providers (CSPs), including banks, brokerage firms, Internet portals and content sites and personal financial management (PFM) software. CheckFree's Software Services division provides solutions that are used to process more than two-thirds of the nation's six billion Automated Clearing House See ACH. payments, and reconciliation products and services to 400 banks and businesses. Also within the Software Services division is CheckFree i-Solutions, which enables billers to create electronic billing and payment applications that transform bills and statements into interactive conduits for customer relationship management, marketing and customer self service. CheckFree's Investment Services provides a broad range of investment management services to thousands of financial institutions nationwide. The division's clients manage more than 1,000,000 portfolios totaling more than $500 billion in assets. |
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