Beyond.com Launches Symantec French, German and U.K. Online Software Stores
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1999--
Multi-Currency, Multi-Lingual Stores Showcase Beyond.com's
Technical and Marketing Prowess
Internet software superstore Beyond.com(TM) (NASDAQ: BYND) today launched three international online software stores, which the company built and will manage for Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC):
-- ShopSymantec France, located at fr.symantecstore.com.
-- ShopSymantec Germany, located at de.symantecstore.com.
-- ShopSymantec United Kingdom, located at
uk.symantecstore.com.
The stores are localized so that customers can purchase Symantec products in local currencies. Additionally, all content is written in local languages and each store is customized graphically to appeal to local audiences in each country. The new stores are the first in a series of 11 Symantec international online software stores Beyond.com expects to create, manage and launch by year-end. Beyond.com plans to launch other stores for Asia-Pacific, Canadian (both French and English speaking), Dutch, Italian, Pan-European, South African and Swedish customers. In July, Beyond.com and Symantec launched a U.S. online software store located at symantecstore.com.
"International e-commerce solutions that allow customers to buy in their own language and currency are the new frontier. Symantec has played a leading role in this area for the last two years already," said Jim Lussier, vice-president and general manager of the Direct eCommerce Solutions group at Beyond.com. "We are proud to have enabled Symantec to take their online software stores to the highest level of professionalism and successfully sell online directly to not only their U.S. audience, but their international customers as well."
Today's announcement is one in a series of Beyond.com initiatives to better create and manage online -- stores for software publishers, hardware vendors and systems OEMs. Last week, Beyond.com launched eStore, a service that enables the rapid deployment of a wide range of e-commerce solutions for companies of all sizes.
"Symantec has decided to outsource the management of our online software stores to Beyond.com, as we have been impressed with their level of expertise in this area," said Hans-Joachim Diedrich, director of European E-commerce at Symantec Corp. "We expect that the launch of our European stores will be greeted with a high level of success."
The three international stores feature all Symantec products that are available by digital download, the process where software is delivered in digital form across the Internet to a customer's desktop or mainframe server.
Like their U.S. counterpart, the new international stores have been designed based on customer feedback and feature:
-- Areas dedicated to specific customers such as the small business,
power and Macintosh user.
-- A "try-before-you-buy" 30-day trial section for selected
products.
-- A 60-day money-back guarantee on all products.
-- Phone and email support in local languages
-- Product updates and upgrades.
About Beyond.com
Beyond.com sells commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better place to buy software. Visitors to the company's online store beyond.com enjoy an expansive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including software stock-kea1341 r f BC-NY-SEQUA 09-23 0001 02
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( BW)(NY-SEQUA)(SQAA) Sequa Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend on Preferred Shares
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 1999--Sequa Corporation has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1.25 per share on its $5.00 cumulative convertible preferred stock. The quarterly dividend is payable November 1,1999 to stockholders of record October 12, 1999.
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