NEWS! (PLCO)& KPNQwest to Market TX40 Concept
Play Co. Toys & Entertainment Corp. Announces That Its Subsidiary, Toys
International Corp., Will Cooperate With KPNQwest to Market the New Media
Concept TX40 KPNQwest Supplies Internet-Infrastructure
SAN MARCOS, Calif., Sep 28, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Toys International.COM a
leading toy retailer in the USA and on the Internet, and KPNQwest, a
joint-venture of the leading Dutch telecommunications company KPN and US
alternative carrier Qwest Communications, today published a cooperation plan to
market the recently introduced Toys International media concept TX40.
KPNQwest supplies a capable and modern Internet infrastructure. KPNQwest will
further use this innovative Website to demonstrate their broadband abilities and
therefore supply www.TX40.net and its users with up-to-date technology.
"KPNQwest is pleased to have been selected, by Toys International.COM, to
provide TX40 with all the services to follow their ambitious growth. The
joint-venture of Toys International.COM and KPNQwest guarantees Toys
International.COM advanced technology with high capacity for TX40," said Guy
Link, French Marketing and Communications Director at KPNQwest.
About Toys Internatinal.COM:
Toys International.COM (WKN: 928 617) is a toy retailer headquartered in the
USA, which combines a conventional outlet store with a virtual Internet
business. The company markets high-quality toys, educational toys, children's
books and videos through 30 retail stores in the USA as well as via the Internet
in Germany. Toys operates the website www.webjumbo.de in Germany, as well as
www.toyswhypayretail.com in the USA. This year the website www.webjumbo.de was
voted best online toy retailer in Germany by the Internet consumer magazine
www.Gold.de.
Additionally, the company has plans to develop further websites in other
European languages with the goal of reaching more European markets in order to
establish a Europe-wide network of Internet offers tailored to the individual
needs of the various countries.
In addition to that, Toys is currently working on TX40, a revolutionary new
media concept and Web presence. TX40 restricts the regularly occuring, high
expenses for Internet advertising, while maintaining the number of hits as well
as the loyalty of site visitors at a constant high level. This concept will be
celebrating its inception at a major international event on the 25th of October
2000.
About KPNQwest:
In April 1999, KPNQwest (Nasdaq:KQIP)(ASE:KQIP) came into being through a joint
venture between the largest Dutch telecommunications enterprise, KPN, and the
leading American IP carrier Qwest. KPNQwest is planning, building and operating
"EuroRings," a high performance pan-European fiber optics network, to be
completed by the year 2001, which will connect 46 European cities. The European
network is linked via high-performance Trans-Atlantic cable to the fiber optics
network of Qwest, in which over 130 cities in the USA are connected. This
enables KPNQwest to supply the entire spectrum of data-oriented transmissions
services in high-output networks in all the important metropolitan area of the
world. At the same time, the company is also a carrier itself. It need not rent
lines, and can independently decide on capacity, and therefore, availabilty of
the network as well. For the customer this means: KPNQwest offers reserved
capacities with a guaranteed high level of availability and maximum
transmissions speed.
Operation and services KPNQwest:
KPNQwest is a leading facilities-based, pan-European provider of data-centric
services based on Internet Protocol (IP). It is deploying a technology advanced
20,000km fiber-optic network connecting 50 cities throughout Europe and provides
a full portfolio of data-centric IP-based services and other advanced
telecommunications services, including a pan-European Digital Subscriber Line
service. KPNQwest is one of the largest business ISPs in Europe with operations
in 15 countries. KPNQwest has twelve CyberCenters(TM) and has announced plans to
build a further eighteen 10,000 square meter CyberCenters across Europe, on its
high-capacity fiber-optic network to provide web-hosting, application sharing
and telehousing services. Website: www.kpnqwest.fr
Play Co. is a toy retailer with 34 stores located in nine states. 34 of those
stores are operated by their subsidiary Toys International (publicly traded on
the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany Under the symbol TY40). The Company
operates under the Play Co. Toys, Toys International and Toy Co. trade names.
The Company specializes in offering educational, specialty, collectible,
specialty imported and traditional toys.
Statements contained in this press release which are not historical facts may be
considered forward looking information with respect to plans, projections, or
future performance of Play Co. Toys as defined under the Private Securities Act
of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected.
CONTACT: Playco Toys, San Marcos
Jim Frakes, 760/471-4505
760/471-9624 (fax)
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