ESPN.com and FanBuzz.com Team Up to Provide Team- and League-Licensed Gear at ESPN.com Mall.Sports Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BW SportsWire)--Oct. 9, 2000 ESPN.com Mall, the innovative shopping destination to be housed within the world's most popular sports site, has added to its planned tenant roster TeamStore @ ESPN.com, powered by FanBuzz.com, the leading provider of e-commerce solutions for team- and league-licensed merchandise. The alignment enables ESPN.com users to purchase licensed gear of the NBA, NFL, NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there , Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. , NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. , minor league hockey and baseball teams, as well as 180 college teams. ESPN.com users can reach the FanBuzz.com-powered store from the home page of ESPN.com or by visiting www.teamstore.espn.com (http://www.teamstore.espn.com). TeamStore @ ESPN.com is the second announced tenant of the ESPN.com Mall, joining Nike and its online Nike store at ESPN.com, which launches later this year. ESPN.com is part of Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DIG). "Our users are sports fans who love to show support for their teams, and the merchandise from FanBuzz.com will provide one-stop shopping for almost any team of any sport," said John Skipper, senior vice president and general manager, ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network Internet Group. "The opening of the store is timed perfectly with the holiday shopping season, enabling fans and those shopping for fans to find great product conveniently." "After providing all of the team and league licensed product fulfillment for the ESPN Store Online since 1998, we're thrilled to expand this relationship by providing a comprehensive e-commerce solution," said Scott Killian, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of FanBuzz.com. "ESPN is the worldwide leader in sports and the new TeamStore @ ESPN.com will continue this tradition with the largest assortment of team and league licensed merchandise available anywhere online from the best brands in the industry." The ESPN.com Mall, Shop @ ESPN.com, will assemble premier providers of sports merchandise - athletic wear and footwear, league-licensed apparel and merchandise, authenticated merchandise, sports videos, event tickets, and more. Shop @ ESPN.com will enable ESPN.com to offer a great variety and depth of products, while continuing to bring unique, exclusive offerings to ESPN users. Each Shop @ ESPN.com merchant will present a product line selected expressly for ESPN.com shoppers. The ESPN.com shopping experience ultimately will offer tens of thousands of premier sports products, presented both within Shop @ ESPN.com, and offered throughout ESPN.com in contextual commerce windows where products will relate directly to sports content on the page. The Mall will enable sports fans to capitalize on the ease, immediacy and security of shopping online while checking out the latest and best sports news, statistics, analysis and games provided by ESPN.com. Founded in 1996, FanBuzz.com makes it possible for professional teams, colleges, media properties and other clients to offer the widest selection of team licensed merchandise online. Clients include the National Hockey League National Hockey League (NHL) Organization of professional North American ice-hockey teams. The league was formed in 1917 by five Canadian teams; the first U.S. team, the Boston Bruins, was added in 1924. It today consists of 30 teams in two conferences and six divisions. , Chicago White Sox The Chicago White Sox are a professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the White Sox have played in U.S. , Heisman Memorial Trophy, Fox Sports, USA Today, Notre Dame and others. FanBuzz.com, Inc. is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota and also has facilities in Hermitage, Pennsylvania. For more information about FanBuzz.com including previous press releases, visit www.fanbuzz.com. ESPN.com, the leading sports Web site, is part of the Walt Disney Internet Group (NYSE:DIG). WDIG WDIG Walt Disney Internet Group WDIG Walt Disney Imagineering Glendale (California) manages some of the Internet's most popular Web sites, including ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. .com, ABCNEWS.com, ABCSports.com, Disney.com, Disneystore.com, DisneyTravel.com, ESPN.com, Family.com, GO.com, Movies.com, Mr. Showbiz, NASCAR Online, NBA.com, NFL.com and Soccernet. The Internet Group also includes The Walt Disney Company's direct marketing business. Steve Bornstein is chairman of Walt Disney Internet Group, which is headquartered in North Hollywood, Calif., with operations in Sunnyvale, Calif.; Seattle; New York; Bristol, Conn.; and London. For more information, visit our web site at www.dig.com (http://www.dig.com). |
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