Rande, have you looked at IIXL? I don't have a position yet but wanted to bring it to the thread's attention. Up today on this:
"""- iXL Enterprises, up 4 1/4 at 29 1/4
Robinson Humphrey initiated coverage of the company with a "buy" rating. The company provides Internet consulting services."""
They are in advertising/web solutions. CEO Bert Ellis used to be in cable TV and saw the potential of the net. Clients include:
AutoConnect
BellSouth
Budget Rent-a-Car
Cable & Wireless
Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Centers for Disease Control
CFN
Chase Manhattan Bank
Cox Communications
Delta Air Lines
Frito-Lay
Frontier Insurance
Gateway
General Electric
Keds
Lucent Technologies
Meguiar's
Merrill Lynch
Sony
Sun Microsystems
Turner Broadcasting
Union Planters Bank
Volvo
Warner Brothers
WebMD
From their webpage: ixl.com
Corporate Profile
iXL is a leading Internet services company which provides Internet strategy consulting and comprehensive Internet-based solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and other major international companies. We help businesses identify how the Internet can be used to their competitive advantage and use our expertise in creative design and systems engineering to implement customized solutions for e-commerce and other Internet applications.
iXL has also developed Consumer Financial Network, Inc. (CFN), a sophisticated e-commerce platform for selling financial services, employee benefits and prepaid legal services over corporate intranets and the Internet. CFN has contracted with competing providers of various financial services to create a digital marketplace for comparison-shopping and purchase of these offerings.
iXL's vision is to pioneer the use of creativity and digital technology to transform the way business gets done. To achieve our goal of becoming the leading strategic Internet services firm, we will continue to leverage and expand our industry expertise, develop our technology capabilities, expand our geographic coverage, capture and disseminate our knowledge and best practices, expand our client relationships and recruit, retain and train experienced professionals.
Nasdaq Symbol
IIXL
Disciplines
Strategy, Design, Information Architecture and Engineering
Service Offerings
Business Design, E-Commerce, Customer Relationship Management, Interactive Learning and Training, Business Process and Workflow, and Digital Media Management
Industry Focus
Financial Services, Healthcare, High Technology, Media & Entertainment, Retail, Telecommunications, and Travel
Employees
iXL, Inc. has 1565 employees as of June 30, 1999
CFN has 154 employees as of June 30, 1999
Locations
iXL Headquarters: 1888 Emery Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30318
Offices (20 cities in five countries): Atlanta, Berlin, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Denver, Hamburg, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Memphis, New York City, Norwalk, Raleigh, Richmond, Rome, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Clara and Washington, DC
CFN Headquarters: 4450 River Green Parkway, Suite 100, Duluth, GA 30096
Management
Bert Ellis (Chairman and CEO), Bill Nussey (President and COO), Wayne Boylston (CFO), Barry Sikes (EVP Worldwide Operations), Dennis Phillips (EVP Worldwide Finance), Dave Clauson (EVP Worldwide Marketing), Kevin Wall (Vice Chairman), Jim Rocco (Director of European Operations), Benjamin Chen (CTO), Cathi Raffaeli (President and COO, CFN) |
