Excite and Drugstore.com Bring Health Products and Information to Excite Users.REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. & REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 1999--Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT) and drugstore.com, inc., a new source for health, beauty and wellness products on the World Wide Web, announced a distribution agreement today that will make drugstore.com the preferred and dominant online drugstore sponsor on Excite's flagship service located at www.excite.com. drugstore.com will be promoted as the preferred online drugstore in the Health and Shopping Channels on the Excite site and will be integrated throughout Excite in areas including Men's & Women's Health Women's Health Definition Women's health is the effect of gender on disease and health that encompasses a broad range of biological and psychosocial issues. , Exercise & Fitness, Diet & Nutrition, Travel and others. drugstore.com also will be the drugstore offered in Excite's popular personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. area, "My Services See .NET My Services. ." drugstore.com is an online drugstore and a product information resource. The exclusively Web-based company offers a licensed pharmacy and a wide selection of brand-name products and information focused on health, beauty and wellness. The company's services include 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week ordering, shipping direct to the home and secure server technology for transactions and storage of customer information. Shoppers also can personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. the shopping experience with personal shopping lists, email reminders for replenishing regularly used products and private email access to pharmacists and beauty experts for questions. "The Excite user is the kind of person who uses the Internet to make informed and intelligent buying decisions on personal products," said drugstore.com President and 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. Peter Neupert. "This agreement will help drugstore.com build both an awareness and identity within Excite's ever-growing e-commerce community." "drugstore.com provides us with a strong presence in what we see as a vital online category," said Joe Kraus Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer. A long time entrepreneur, Joe has been involved with early-stage technology development and starting companies for more than twelve years. , senior vice president and co-founder of Excite. "With the addition of drugstore.com, we continue our commitment to provide Excite consumers with the most complete online shopping experience available on the Web." drugstore.com is expected to launch on Excite within the first quarter of 1999. About Excite, Inc. Excite, Inc. is a global Internet media company that attracts over 17 million unique consumers monthly to its flagship portal services, excite.com and webcrawler.com, and specializes in the delivery of highly targeted marketing solutions through its subsidiary MatchLogic, Inc. One of the best-known brands on the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises Excite brand is now recognized by more than 50 million Americans. Excite offers services in ten countries and personalization in four; the company has joint ventures with Itochu for Excite Japan, Liberty One for Excite Australia, Telecom Italia Telecom Italia is formerly a partially state-owned Italian telco. It was once known as SIP, and it has the largest user base in Italy. Telecom Italia also owns shares in Telecom Argentina and Telecom Personal, fixed and cellular networks in Argentina. for Excite Italy and a joint venture with British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. for Excite UK. Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT), founded in 1994, is based in Redwood City, Calif. For more investor information on Excite, please call our shareholder services hotline at 1-888-924-XCIT (9248). (Unique user and brand recognition statistics quoted are from, respectively: Relevant Knowledge, Opinion Research Corp.) About drugstore.com drugstore.com (www.drugstore.com) is an online source for thousands of brand-name health, beauty and wellness products, combined with a wealth of decision-making information and resources to educate and inform consumers to take charge of their personal health and well-being. Based in Redmond, Wash., the company is headed by President and CEO Peter Neupert, a former senior Microsoft executive. drugstore.com is funded by Silicon Valley venture capital group Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers and Maveron, L.L.C. drugstore.com is a trademark of drugstore.com, inc. |
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