College Store Online Signs 300+ Stores, Announces New Vendor Relationships.Business Editors/College, Retail, Education & High Tech Writers OBERLIN, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 Participation Reaches New High as Collegiate Retailers Use Comprehensive E-Commerce Service to Set Up Web Sites for Fall Back-to-School Sales College Store Online, the leading independent e-commerce service for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. retailers, today announced that more than 300 stores have chosen the service as their e-commerce solution. Participation has jumped nearly 50% in the past month as college stores rush to get online in time for the fall back-to-school season. As a result of several new partnerships between College Store Online and leading industry suppliers, participating college stores also will be able offer a vastly larger selection and variety of merchandise on their College Store Online web sites, including office supplies Office supplies is the generic term that refers to all supplies regularly used in offices by businesses and other organizations, from private citizens to governments, who works with the collection, refinement, and output of information (colloquially referred to as "paper work"). , music, videos, and computer products. The following vendors have all agreed to make their products available through College Store Online: -- Arrow Distributing, a music distributor with 18,000 titles of entertainment software, including compact discs, cassette tapes, and videocassettes; -- Baker & Taylor, a national book distribution company offering a database with detailed, up-to-date information on over 3.5 million book titles; -- C2F C2F Comics to Film C2F Commander Second Fleet C2F Command and Control Framework C2F Command & Control Facility , Inc., a premier distributor of office and school supplies offering 18,000 products from 300 vendors; -- Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , the world's largest provider of technology products and services with more than 280,000 products from more than 1,700 hardware and software manufacturers; -- Matthews Medical Books, a database of medical books and multimedia products for the health science marketplace; and -- NACSCORP, a leading provider of trade books and software to higher education retailers. "College Store Online has become the preferred independent e-commerce solution because we offer the right combination of advanced technology, easy-to-use templates, marketing support, and partnerships with leading industry vendors," commented Gary Swisher swisher Sexology A regional term for a really queer queer, not that there's anything wrong with that , Managing Director of College Store Online. "As college stores look toward fall and realize the potential impact of Internet sales on their businesses, we expect participation to reach 500 stores or more very soon." "Our new vendor partnerships have dramatically expanded the product inventory available to our participating stores," added Mark Martukovich, Director of Sales. "We are committed to helping our stores successfully compete online and make their web presence as effective as their brick-and-mortar storefront. College stores using College Store Online can now offer hundreds of thousands more books, music, and computer products on their web sites than in their traditional stores." About College Store Online College Store Online is a complete e-commerce solution that offers college retailers all the tools required to quickly set up and manage a successful Internet store. More than three hundred college stores are using the service including stores serving Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. , Princeton University Princeton University, at Princeton, N.J.; coeducational; chartered 1746, opened 1747, rechartered 1748, called the College of New Jersey until 1896. Schools and Research Facilities , Vassar College, University of Texas at El Paso The University of Texas at El Paso, popularly known as UTEP, is a public, coeducational university, and it is a member of the University of Texas System. The school is located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande, in El Paso, Texas, and is the largest university in the , University of New Mexico The University of New Mexico (UNM) is a public university in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was founded in 1889. It also offers multiple bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and professional degree programs in all areas of the arts, sciences, and engineering. , San Jose State University, and University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. , Memphis. College Store Online provides state-of-the-art e-commerce capabilities; central site hosting; technical and marketing support; and vendor partnerships including CollegeClub.com, the leading developer of localized online campus communities for college students; NACSCORP, Baker & Taylor; Matthews Book Company; Ingram Micro; and C2F, Inc. College Store Online is a member service of the National Association of College Stores (NACS NACS National Association of Convenience Stores NACS National Association of College Stores NACS North American Catalan Society NACS North American Catalysis Society NACS Network Access Control System NACS National Advisory Committee On Semiconductors ), the professional trade association representing college stores in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. For more information about College Store Online call Sherry Natoli at (800) 622-7498, ext. 2230 or visit www.collegestoreonline.com or the NACS web site at www.nacs.org. |
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