Christopher L. Soder Named Priceline.com President, North American Travel.NORWALK Norwalk (nôr`wôk'). 1 City (1990 pop. 94,279), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; settled in the 1850s, inc. 1957. With the arrival (1875) of the Southern Pacific RR, it became a center for the dairy and logging industries, but , Conn. -- Priceline.com (priceline.com Incorporated, Norwalk, CT, www.priceline.com) A Web-based travel shopping site launched in 1998 where buyers submit the price they are willing to pay for airline tickets, hotel rooms, vacation packages and rental cars. (Nasdaq: PCLN PCLN Priceline.com (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) today announced the appointment of Christopher L. Soder, 47, to the position of President, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Travel. He was priceline.com's Executive Vice President, Travel Services. In his new and expanded role, Mr. Soder will be responsible for all of priceline.com's U.S. travel services as well as domestic information technology and operations functions. Mr. Soder joined priceline.com in February 2000 as President of Hotel Services and led the development and launch of priceline.com's cruise and vacation package offerings. In July 2002, he was promoted to Executive Vice President, Lodging Lodging or holiday accommodation is a type of accommodation. People who travel and stay away from home for more than a day need lodging mainly for sleeping. Other purposes are safety, shelter from cold and rain, having a place to store luggage and being able to take a and Vacation Products. In March 2005, he became priceline.com's Executive Vice President, Travel Services. Before joining priceline.com, he was Western Region Vice President, Growth Markets, for AT&T, where he was responsible for the company's complete technology portfolio sales to over 20,000 business customers across a 10-state region. "Chris Soder is one of priceline.com's longest-tenured management veterans, with deep experience across our product, support and technology functions," said priceline.com President and Chief Executive Officer Jeffery H. Boyd. "He was instrumental in building and growing our U.S. hotel business and has been the driver of our major development projects over the last few years. I look forward to working closely with him in his new role." About Priceline.com[R] Incorporated Priceline.com Incorporated (Nasdaq: PCLN) operates priceline.com, a leading U.S. online travel service for value-conscious leisure travelers, and Priceline Europe, a leading European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. online hotel reservation service. In the U.S., priceline.com gives customers more ways to save on their airline tickets, hotel rooms, rental cars, vacation packages and cruises than any other Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the travel service. In addition to getting all the best published prices, leisure travelers can narrow their searches using priceline.com's TripFilter[TM] advanced search technology, create packages to save even more money, and take advantage of priceline.com's famous Name-Your-Own-Price[R] service, which can deliver the lowest prices available. Priceline Europe operates one of Europe's fastest growing hotel reservation services through its Booking.com network of hotel reservation services, Activehotels.com and priceline.co.uk. Priceline Europe operates in 40 countries in 12 languages and offers its customers in Europe and the U.S. access to approximately 25,000 participating European hotels. Priceline.com also operates the following travel websites: Travelweb.com, Lowestfare.com, RentalCars.com and BreezeNet.com. Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home mortgages, refinancing Refinancing An extension and/or increase in amount of existing debt. and home equity loans through an independent licensee licensee n. a person given a license by government or under private agreement. (See: license, licensor) LICENSEE. One to whom a license has been given. 1 M. Q. & S. 699 n. . Priceline.com licenses its business model to independent licensees, including priceline mortgage and certain international licensees. |
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