Cox Interactive Media Announces Strategic Partnership With ImproveNet That Will Benefit Local Homeowners, Nationwide.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000 CIMedia integrates ImproveNet's useful home improvement content into home channel on 30 city sites nationwide; ImproveNet.com gains access to highly-targeted local homeowners Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia), which operates the highest-rated network of locally-focused city web sites across the country, and ImproveNet, an independent service helping homeowners succeed with their home improvement projects, today announced a one-year strategic partnership. The innovative relationship provides CIMedia users with immediate access to the country's most popular online home improvement service, while offering ImproveNet expanded local consumer reach in key markets nationwide. ImproveNet helps homeowners find the home improvement information, interactive solutions and assistance they need online, streamlining the process of planning a home improvement project and hiring a qualified local remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling professional. Homeowners can now visit their local CIMedia city site's Homes channel, click on the ImproveNet functionality, submit information about their projects, and find local, prescreened contractors who are ready and available to bid on the work. "We're excited about being able to offer ImproveNet's home-improvement matching service to the local audiences that visit our CIMedia city sites," said Dave Hills, vice president, sales, CIMedia. "This partnership with ImproveNet is an outstanding example of our unique ability to provide highly useful functionality to our consumers while delivering a large and engaged local audience to our distribution partners. It is yet one more example of our strategic plan to help busy, local consumers better manage their lives." About Cox Interactive Media Cox Interactive Media (CIMedia) has built a network of locally-focused city web sites across the country with the goal of serving residents and advertisers in each of the communities they serve. CIMedia (www.cimedia.com) was founded in 1996, is a subsidiary of 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 , Inc., and is headquartered in Atlanta. The network consists of 55 sites across the country, with 21 sites in the top 50 U.S. markets. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises, Inc. (CEI CEI Competitive Enterprise Institute CEI Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (Italian bishop conference) CEI Central European Initiative CEI Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano (Italian Electrotechnical Committee) ) includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing book publishing. The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. ), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research and publicly traded Cox Radio Cox Radio NYSE: CXR is a publicly traded company that holds a number of radio stations. Private company Cox Broadcasting, Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises owns all of the company's super-voting Class B common stock, and thus controls the company. , Inc [NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CXR CXR abbr. chest x-ray CXR, n chest x-ray; an image of the thoracic cavity, produced by an irradiation scan of the upper torso. ]), publicly traded Cox Communications Cox Communications is a privately owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises providing digital cable television and telecommunications services in the United States. It is the third-largest[2] cable television provider in the United States, serving more than 6. , Inc. [NYSE: COX] (cable distribution, programming, telephone and high-speed Internet access services) in addition to CIMedia. CEI is also the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial services, government auctions, online services and price guides. |
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