HouseHold Direct Launches E-Commerce Platform Using ArsDigita's Open-Source E-Business Solutions
NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- HouseHold Direct.com, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: BYIT - news). HouseHold Direct announced today the launch of an upgraded version of their Web Site (http://www.householddirect.com) built using the ArsDigita Community System (ACS) open-source e-business platform and applications.
The updated Web Site is built to accommodate the full integration of partner and acquisition business practices into a common enterprise-wide communication system. This becomes especially important as HouseHold Direct adds additional relationships with manufacturers, distributors and retailers nationwide.
HouseHold Direct's mission is to create the largest and most powerful private wholesale online consumer-buying network in the world. By offering a revolutionary new business model that eliminates the traditional retail mark-up on brand name products, HouseHold Direct is changing the way people find value using the Web. The shopping platform adds increased efficiency and profitability as it creates a new medium of information transfer directly between consumers and manufacturers.
``We're excited to launch our new e-commerce platform, as it will add significant value to our partners by allowing suppliers, distributors and retailers to easily collaborate online,'' said John Folger, CEO of HouseHold Direct. ``ArsDigita's e-business solution is the foundation for our online collaboration. We chose to work with ArsDigita because they not only had software to meet our technology needs but also because ACS will allow us to scale our infrastructure as our business continues to flourish.''
ArsDigita's ACS includes an open-source e-business platform and applications for organizations using collaboration to drive online success. ArsDigita collaboration applications enable and support the interactions among and within organizations involved in buying, selling or exchanging goods, services and information online. (To read how collaboration improves the effectiveness of e-business, visit arsdigita.com. ACS applications enable five core e-business requirements: collaboration, content management, commerce, personalization, and administration. ACS provides an application development platform with fully integrated applications that enable customers to develop Web environments more rapidly and with less cost then traditional methods.
About ArsDigita
ArsDigita Corporation is the worldwide leader in software solutions for collaborative commerce. Some of the world's largest organizations rely on the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), the company's open-source, freely distributed application development platform, to drive their online success. Web sites and technologies incorporating the company's software include Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, America Online and Oracle Corporation. Backed by General Atlantic, Greylock, Trident Partners and Bain & Company, ArsDigita has grown to eight offices in the United States, Europe and the Far East. For more information, visit arsdigita.com.
About HouseHold Direct
The mission of HouseHold Direct is to empower consumers by creating the largest and most powerful private wholesale consumer-buying network in the world. HouseHold Direct is pursuing a market consolidation strategy within the wholesale membership industry through its ``brick and click'' shopping platform. Central to this strategy is the ability to offer direct manufacturer and distributor pricing, extensive information, merchandise expertise, fulfillment capabilities, in-home delivery and quality customer service to our members. This superior personalized shopping environment and consumer experience creates the ability to ``live much better for much less''.
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements: Except for historical information contained herein, the statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company's actual results in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company's domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company's ability to replace and expand its holdings.
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