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Channel Intelligence Acquires Storefront, Order Management and Fulfillment Assets From Vcommerce
| Source: Channel Intelligence, Inc.
ORLANDO, FL--(Marketwire - September 1, 2009) - Channel Intelligence, Inc.
(CI), a partner company of Internet Capital Group (NASDAQ : ICGE ), today
announced the acquisition of certain key assets of Vcommerce, a provider
of ecommerce software solutions located in Scottsdale, AZ. With the newly
acquired assets, CI will, through a new, wholly owned subsidiary, provide
storefront, order management and fulfillment services to retailers,
manufacturers and publishers across several industry verticals. Key
customers include Cisco Consumer Products and The McGraw-Hill Companies.
The acquisition of the Vcommerce assets will expand CI's e-commerce
platform services for retailers, publishers and manufacturers, increasing
its overall customer base to 235, with more than 25 percent represented in
the Internet Retailer Top 250. The combination of the Vcommerce storefront
and fulfillment services with Channel Intelligence's industry leading
performance based marketing solutions will permit CI to offer the
industry's most complete set of services for manufacturers, publishers and
retailers.
Channel Intelligence has been the industry leader in helping manufacturers
drive sales to their channel partners with over 80 percent market share.
With the addition of its display advertising, social networking and the
Vcommerce fulfillment and storefront assets, CI is now more deeply aligned
with a manufacturer's overall e-commerce strategy. By partnering with
manufacturers and their advertising agencies to drive traffic, process
orders, and track sales directly from the manufacturer's on-line store and
through CI's vast world-wide network of large and specialty retailers, CI
provides a compelling performance-based solution for manufacturers.
For its retail customers, CI now adds complete order management and
fulfillment services to its portfolio, allowing retailers to maximize their
catalogs and enable seamless integration across their channel partners.
These capabilities, combined with CI's existing comparison shopping engine
service and new performance advertising and search engine marketing
services, provides a complete end-to-end solution for retailers to drive
profitable sales from these programs.
"We are very excited about this acquisition because of Vcommerce's
best-in-class technology and great people," said Robert Wight, Co-Founder
and CEO of Channel Intelligence. "Channel Intelligence has always been the
leader in helping manufacturers and retailers drive sales, largely due to
our unique ability to work across all channels with such a large and
diverse group of customers. With the addition of the Vcommerce technology,
we now have a truly integrated experience for our customers."
With its new capabilities, CI will be a leading provider of Commerce
Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions, with over $2B annually in referred
sales to leading manufacturers and retailers such as Best Buy, HP Home and
Home Office, Kimberly-Clark, Neiman Marcus, Philips, Target, Garmin,
OfficeMax, Samsung, Charming Shoppes, Black & Decker and hundreds more.
CI will now maintain a west coast office in Phoenix, AZ, in addition to its
headquarters located in Orlando, FL.
About Channel Intelligence:
CI is a performance marketing and services company focused on helping
retailers, manufacturers and other advertisers make their products and
services easier for consumers to find and buy on the Internet and in local
retail stores. The CI product database is capable of storing, managing,
optimizing and analyzing hundreds of millions of products every day. This
database powers product data for leading manufacturers and retailers in
Computing, Home Improvement, Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Toys and
other Consumer Product industries such as Apparel, Cosmetics and Jewelry.
CI offers innovative suites of services for hundreds of the world's best
known manufacturers, retailers
and publishers and provides distribution of product data to over 50 destination
websites, including the proprietary CI Ad
Network. Cultivating partnerships with some of the best solution
providers in the eCommerce arena, CI is a partner company of Internet
Capital Group (NASDAQ : ICGE ) and Aweida Capital Management. CI was founded
in 1999 by CEO Robert Wight and EVP Alan Fulmer and is headquartered in
Orlando, Fla. Learn more at http://www.channelintelligence.com.
About Vcommerce:
Vcommerce has been a market leader in Order Management/Order Fulfillment
eCommerce on-demand platform solutions, providing a comprehensive suite of
best-in-class capabilities such as storefront, order management, order
fulfillment, supplier integration, and customer service. Using a high
performance SaaS (Software as a Service) platform, Vcommerce has processed
billions of dollars of revenue annually for its clients. Prior to the sale
of certain key assets to CI, Vcommerce customers spanned retail industry
segments and included major brands such as Overstock.com, Barneys New York,
The McGraw-Hill Companies, and BJ's Wholesale Club. Learn more at
http://www.vcommerce.com.