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Playboy.com Expands eCommerce Operations with Demandware Platform.


PALM DESERT, Calif. -- Demandware (www.demandware.com) announced today that Playboy Playboy

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 of PlayboyStore.com on the Demandware eCommerce platform. The sites support Playboy.com's strategy to leverage the strength of the Playboy brand and extend the reach of its apparel and beauty merchandise to new target markets, especially women. ShoptheBunny.com features women's fashion, intimate apparel, accessories and beauty products, as well as men's apparel and lounge wear. PlayboyStore.com offers apparel, as well as home fashions, DVDs, magazines and books.

"We chose to launch ShoptheBunny.com and relaunch PlayboyStore.com on Demandware to help us create two new online stores in only a few months," said Danielle Savin savin

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Following an extensive evaluation of eCommerce platforms, Playboy.com partnered with Demandware to deliver differentiated customer shopping experiences based on the strength of Demandware's merchandising merchandising

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* Checkout incentives and offers - Shoppers are informed at checkout how close they are to receiving an offer (e.g. free shipping over a certain amount) and whether they meet the minimum threshold before completing their order. Playboy.com can set different thresholds on the average order spend for these messages.

Playboy.com Leverages Demandware Platform to Launch Sites Within Weeks

Following the launch of ShoptheBunny.com, Playboy.com was able to relaunch PlayboyStore.com in a matter of weeks. Using Demandware merchandising tools and User Experience (UX[TM]) Studio design environment, Playboy.com leveraged its initial Demandware eCommerce site architecture, product content, and price repositories While acknowledging services such as [ROAR: [1]] and [OpenDOAR: [2]] it is perhaps necessary to provide a list of individual repositories described in more detail within wikipedia here.  to relaunch the new site quickly. And, as with all Demandware customers, Playboy.com expanded its eCommerce businesses without the hassle Hassle () is a location in Närke, Sweden, where a Celtic treasure was found in 1936.

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"Playboy.com's success is part of a larger trend where major companies leverage their brand equity and the online channel to open new businesses," said Jamus Driscoll, vice president of marketing, Demandware. "Through the combination of its merchandising capabilities and platform extensibility, Demandware makes it easy for global brands like Playboy to target specific customer demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data.  with refined brand messages."

About Demandware, Inc.

Demandware delivers a flexible enterprise eCommerce platform, delivered on demand, to retailers that require best-in-class merchandising and continual platform innovation. Using Demandware, retailers differentiate their brand and improve the customer experience while maintaining merchandising control over promotions, pricing, content and site performance in multi-site and multi-brand environments. Customers include Playmobil, Bare Escentuals, Gardener's Supply Company and Sanrio (Hello Kitty). For more information about Demandware, visit www.demandware.com, call 888- 553 9216 or email info@demandware.com.

About Playboy Enterprises Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA), also organized as New Playboy, Inc. (NYSE: PLAA), is the company founded by Hugh Hefner to manage the Playboy magazine empire. It was created in 1953 as the HMH Publishing Co., Inc. , Inc.

Playboy Enterprises is a brand-driven, international multimedia entertainment company that publishes editions of Playboy magazine around the world; operates television networks and distributes programming globally; owns Playboy.com, a leading men's lifestyle and entertainment web site; and licenses the Playboy trademark internationally for a range of consumer products and services.
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