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Active Apparel Opens Everlast Store Online At Yahoo! Shopping
NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Active Apparel Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: AAGP - news) today announced that it has launched an Everlast store on Yahoo!® Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com), a comprehensive, one-stop Internet shopping service. Located within the ''Apparel and Accessories'' category, the site offers a selection of up to 50 core Everlast men's and women's products. Active Apparel will run banner ads on the Yahoo! network of properties during the month of June.
George Q Horowitz, Active Apparel's chairman and chief executive, said, ''We are thrilled about the opportunity to expand our Internet presence by working with one of the most trusted brands online. Yahoo! has one of the largest audiences on the Web, making its convenient online shopping service a perfect vehicle for the Everlast store.''
Horowitz continued, ''We are guided by a dual-pronged growth strategy. While expanding our Internet presence through our new Everlast store on Yahoo! Shopping, we remain committed to developing innovative concepts for our retailers, such as the recently-announced expansion of our 'Everlast Corner' concept shop with Bloomingdale's.''
As a merchant whose products are included in Yahoo! Shopping, Everlast joins more than 5,000 online stores, including Cambridge Soundworks, Crabtree & Evelyn, Digital Chef, Egghead.com, FAO Schwarz, Fragrance Counter, Greatfood.com, Kennedy Space Center's Space Shop, Lifetime Television, Miramax Films Online Store, Roadrunner Sports, Rolling Stone, Shoe Pavilion, Smith & Hawken, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Vermont Teddy Bear Company, Yahoo! Gear, and many more.
Headquartered in New York City, Active Apparel Group, Inc. is a designer, marketer and supplier of women's and men's activewear, sportswear, swimwear, and accessories. The Company sells its product collections under the Everlast brand name in addition to other exclusive licensing arrangements. The Company's products are manufactured by third party independent manufacturing contractors and are sold to over 20,000 retail locations throughout the United States and Canada, including a variety of department stores, specialty stores, catalog operations and better mass merchandisers.
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to, the Company's expansion into new markets, competition, technological advances and availability of managerial personnel.
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SOURCE: Active Apparel Group, Inc. |
