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B: Starbelly.com Joins Intelisys' Global Supplier Alliance Program
Starbelly.com Signs Up to Expand Its Customer Base by More Than Four Million
Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
CHICAGO and NEW YORK, Apr 11, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Starbelly.com,
the leading e-commerce provider of branded merchandise, today announced that it
will join forces with Intelisys, a leader in global business-to-business
e-commerce, to become a premiere supplier to all of Intelisys' on-line
purchasing communities.
Starbelly.com will be a premier supplier of branded promotional products to five
of Intelisys' online purchasing communities, reaching an expanded customer base
of more than four million small and medium-sized businesses. This partnership
will help Starbelly.com reach a growing number of companies and organizations
looking to save money and time by managing their procurement needs using
Intelisys software and online marketplaces. Starbelly.com will increase its
customer reach, thus enhancing its revenue and further penetrating the $75
billion promotional products industry.
"Intelisys provides us with an ideal platform for reaching a broad customer
base," said Brad Keywell, chief executive officer and co-founder of
Starbelly.com. "Our entrance into these marketplaces puts us in front of
customers who need logo'd merchandise, uniforms and online company stores."
The five Intelisys purchasing communities include:
- Intuit's QuickBooks Purchasing Service -- Scheduled to be functional
later this spring, this online community includes over two million small
business customers who purchase more than $500 billion a year of goods
and services.
- Chase.com -- A horizontal and vertical purchasing community serving
Chase Manhattan Bank's 350,000 business customers, which is part of a
broader business portal that Chase has been developing.
- Autolink.com -- A vertical automotive purchasing community serving
300,000 automotive dealers and aftermarket repair facilities.
- First Union Corp. -- An e-marketplace for First Union Corp.'s 700,000
small and mid-sized business customers, that is scheduled to be
functional in the third quarter of 2000.
- Commonfund -- A purchasing community sponsored by the leading financial
manager for educational institutions nationwide, to be available this
fall to colleges and universities around the country, who spend more
than $100 billion annually on supplies and services.
"The addition of Starbelly.com as a supplier to these purchasing communities
helps ensure that our customers are able to solve all of their business needs in
one place," said Lloyd O'Connor, CEO of Intelisys. " With Intelisys' open
Internet standards, it was a quick and easy process to bring Starbelly.com into
our secure trading environment."
Intelisys' powerful IEC-Portal(TM) technology enables suppliers to leverage
existing cataloging infrastructure to sell products and services using any open
standards-based procurement application. Since Intelisys connects buyers and
suppliers directly, Starbelly.com can use its existing online catalog,
eliminating the need to aggregate product content on a third party site. This
ensures Starbelly.com can maintain control over the look and feel of the catalog
and keep product data current for corporate buyers to easily search, compare and
purchase the items they need.
In January 2000, Starbelly.com announced that it has agreed to be acquired by
HA-LO Industries (NYSE: HMK), the nation's leading provider of promotional
products. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of 2000.
ABOUT STARBELLY.COM
Starbelly.com is the leading business-to-business e-commerce marketer of custom
branded merchandise. Starbelly.com is transforming the customer experience by
bringing new online efficiencies and a streamlined supply chain to a $75 billion
marketplace. Starbelly.com also builds online virtual stores that are linked to
corporate web sites and offer one-stop shopping for corporate logo'd merchandise
for employees, customers and the general public. Starbelly.com's client base
includes reputable companies such as Newell Rubbermaid, Nestle, Trimark Pictures
and Advocate Health Care. For more information, visit Starbelly.com's web site
at www.starbelly.com .
ABOUT HA-LO
HA-LO Industries, a brand marketing organization, is the nation's leading
distributor of promotional products and a premier provider of brand marketing
services through UPSHOT, a number one-ranked brand marketing agency. HA-LO's
extensive client roster includes such global leaders as Abbott Labs,
Anheuser-Busch, The Coca-Cola Company, Discover Financial Services, Ford,
General Electric, Glaxo Wellcome, Mirage Resorts, Procter & Gamble, J.E. Seagram
& Son and SBC Communications. The company operates in 11 countries.
ABOUT INTELISYS ELECTRONIC COMMERCE Headquartered in New York City, Intelisys
Electronic Commerce, Inc. ( www.Intelisys.com ) provides a powerful B2B
e-commerce solution that brings together Global 2000 and public sector
enterprise buyers and e-marketplace sponsors with all their small and
medium-size business customers. Within this unique framework each may act both
as buyer and supplier, to deliver the true promise of B2B Internet commerce.
Intelisys' suite of products, based on open standards and supplier managed
content, provides the easiest and fastest way to use the Internet to
dramatically reduce the high cost of procuring goods and services and to develop
new revenue streams for e-marketplace sponsors.
Intelisys is applying its Internet procurement expertise and hallmark
ease-of-use to meet the e-commerce needs of both buyers and suppliers. Formed in
1996, Intelisys' clients include Autolink.com, The Chase Manhattan Bank,
CommonFund, The Ford Motor Company, First Union Corp., Hasbro, Intuit, the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, San Diego State University, Starwood Hotels &
Resorts, Telstra, Texas Instruments, the State Government of South Australia,
and Western Geophysical (a division of Baker Hughes).
Certain statements in this press release regarding Starbelly and this
relationship with Intelisys, including Starbelly's enhanced revenues and
penetration of the industry, and Intelisys customers' ability to solve all their
business needs, are forward-looking statements that invoke substantial risks and
uncertainties. Readers should know that actual results may differ materially
from those implied by such forward-looking statements as a result of various
factors.
SOURCE Starbelly.com
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CONTACT: Chris Noel, Vice President - Corporate Communications of
Starbelly, 312-895-6242, email, chrisnoel@upshotmail.com; or
ary Athridge, of
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et.com, for
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