Communicate.com Acquires GreatBritain.com; Launches Indonesia.com.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004 Communicate.com Inc. today announced that it has acquired GreatBritain.com, which it will develop and launch as an online travel portal in Q2 2004. Comprised of England, Scotland and Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. is a mecca for tourists and business travellers alike. Communicate also announced the launch of Indonesia.com, the third country travel portal to be developed and marketed through its partnership with FrequentTraveller.com Inc. Communicate is the majority shareholder in FrequentTraveller.com, a Washington State-based travel company. Indonesia, a 17,000-island archipelago, is a stunning range of landscapes, cultures, languages and religions. Whether it's Bali -- the mystical, lush jewel of equatorial Asia -- or Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi or Lombok, Indonesia.com is a gateway to the best in tours, treks, resorts, hotels and airfares. Travellers inherently seek and trust country domains. These websites benefit from a steady flow of targeted, travel-oriented traffic without the usual marketing costs incurred by other travel websites to generate visitors and leads. Communicate and FrequentTraveller introduced Vietnam.com in August 2003 and Malaysia.com in October 2003. The next joint venture is Brazil.com, scheduled for launch this quarter. About Communicate: Communicate.com Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :CMNN)(Berlin:TQ6) owns, develops and operates a network of intuitively branded eCommerce websites and URLs specializing in travel, consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and , sports/lifestyle and B-to-B. The company's 25+ premium generic one-word domains attract approximately 1,000,000 unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. and potential customers each month without the usual marketing costs. For more information about Communicate, please visit www.communicate.com. About FrequentTraveller: FrequentTraveller.com Inc. is an online destination travel company operating and marketing from its core travel URLs: Vietnam.com, Malaysia.com, Indonesia.com and Brazil.com. As part of the Communicate.com family of companies, FrequentTraveller benefits from and shares a wealth of technical and operations resources that will allow for growth and innovation. FrequentTraveller.com brings travellers from around the globe to Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. , South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and Great Britain while offering unique and innovative travel packages tours and excursions that inspire and excite. For more information about FrequentTraveller, please visit www.frequenttraveller.com. This news release contains "forward-looking" statements, as such term is defined within the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Because such statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ from those expressed or implied herein. |
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