UBUY news;
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 1999--
AuctionAnything.com, Inc. (formerly the Lawton-York Corporation)
(OTC BB: LWTN), announced today that its stock will begin trading
under the new symbol (OTC BB:UBUY).
The new symbol was chosen to be more indicative of the nature of
the company's core business (Internet-based auctions). This
announcement follows the Lawton-York Corporation's March 10, 1999
announcement that it had acquired North Orlando Sports Promotions,
Inc., an on-line auction company, and changed its name to
AuctionAnything.com, Inc.
AuctionAnything.com presently runs its SportsAuction
(http://www.SportsAuction.com) web site and is developing other
complementary auction sites designed around specific "micro-community"
themes. AuctionAnything.com, Inc. plans to continue to embellish and
improve its SportsAuction division while leveraging its existing
customer database to expand the entire range of AuctionAnything.com
services.
In addition, AuctionAnything.com, Inc. announced today that it
has joined the CBS SportsLine affiliate program. CBS SportsLine is
published by SportsLine USA, Inc. (Nasdaq:SPLN). The CBS SportsLine
web site (http://CBS.SportsLine.com) provides extensive coverage of
the NCAA collegiate basketball championships.
This release contains forward-looking statements with the meaning
of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking
statements are based are reasonable it can give no assurance that such
expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct.
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CONTACT: AuctionAnything.com Inc., Orlando
Martin M. Meads, Investor Relations
407/673-5600
marty@AuctionAnything.com
auctionanything.com
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