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TMAN Global.Com Completes Deal to Become Amazon.Com Associate
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- TMAN global.com (OTC Bulletin Board: FSGI - news) announced today that it has completed an e-commerce agreement with Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN - news) in order to become an Amazon.com Associate. Now visitors to tmanglobal.com will have millions of additional reasons to visit the popular web address -- known as one of the world's largest websites devoted exclusively to the martial arts and health and fitness industries. TMAN global.com intends to distribute tens of thousands of titles each month from its newly relaunched web site, in order to keep its commitment to deliver the best martial arts, action/adventure, and extreme sports information the world has to offer.
According to Tony Interdonato, TMAN global.com's Chairman and CEO, ''We are very excited about this association. We plan to offer everything Amazon.com has as it pertains to our niche marketplace, from Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris books and videos, to many different types of celebrity health, fitness, and workout videos. All of the many visitors to our website will be encouraged to take advantage of the amazing value that our being an Amazon.com Associate will afford them.''
Currently, the universe of potential visitors to the TMAN global.com website includes more than 100 million people involved in some form of martial arts worldwide, with many hundreds of millions more that are concerned with health, fitness, diet, and nutrition. Interdonato continues, ''Even though the martial arts industry appears popular in this country, with approximately 20,000 studios and 15 million individuals participating in some form of martial arts, it is only a small fraction of the world marketplace, where in many countries martial arts is a way of life. We believe TMAN global.com has the unique opportunity to be one of the first, and most successful, Internet companies to tap this multi-billion dollar marketplace.''
According to Jeff Bezos, President of Amazon.com, ''We are pleased to have TMAN global.com in the family of Amazon.com associates. We have agreed to ship products and provide customer service for orders we receive through special links on tmanglobal.com. They will list selected books, CD's and videos in an editorial context that will help you to make the right choice. We encourage you to visit TMAN global.com's web site often to see what new items they've selected for you.''
This latest announcement is in keeping with TMAN global.com's e-commerce strategy for procuring online business relationships. ''This agreement will substantially broaden our product universe by allowing us to tap into Amazon.com's tremendous resources,'' said Ron Tramontano, TMAN global.com's new president. ''We are happy to be associated with Amazon.com because of their well-known commitment to excellence in online retailing. Also, in light of yesterday's announcement that Amazon.com has achieved a $1 billion annualized sales level after only three and one half years in business, we feel that being associated with this type of quality Internet partner will greatly increase our ability to grow and develop our business that much more rapidly.''
TMAN global.com joins a list of many well-known Amazon.com associates such as Yahoo! (YHOO), Excite (XCIT), Netscape (NSCP), AOL.com, Geocities, and many others. TMAN intends to categorize and list thousands of martial arts, action/adventure, extreme sports, health, fitness, and nutrition titles.
About TMAN global.com, Inc.
TMAN global.com, Inc. is a two-year old Internet-based company that operates one of the world's largest websites devoted exclusively to the martial arts and health and fitness industries. TMAN global.com is located at Universal Studios Florida, with interests in the sports, entertainment and financial auditing industries.
About Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc., the Internet's No. 1 music and No. 1 book retailer, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995. Today, the Amazon.com store has expanded to offer more than 4.7 million book, music CD, video, DVD, computer game, and other titles, plus secure credit card payment, personalized recommendations, and streamlined ordering through 1-Click SM technology.
Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, TMAN global.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, competition, risks associated with system development and operations, management of potential growth and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances.
NOTE: TMAN global.com is a trademark of TMAN global.com, Inc. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE: TMAN global.com, Inc.
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