To: KonKilo who wrote (43661 ) 1/15/1999 10:01:00 AM From: flyboy Respond to of 119973
VCLL ...Friday January 15, 8:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: ThermaCell Technologies, Inc. ThermaCell Internet Paint Store Goes Online, On Schedule SARASOTA, Fla., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ThermaCell Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCLL - news, VCLLW - news) announced that its Internet paint store will go online, on schedule, mid next week at thermacell.com . Opening of the ''store'' would make ThermaCell one of the first companies to enter the paint e- tailing business. The store will initially feature more than 100 specialty interior and exterior paints and coatings and waterborne and solvent-based ready-made color paints, manufactured in Miami under the Company's Atlas and Scientific Coatings brands. Eventually, ThermaCell plans to offer more than 200 SKUs. Products will be offered in one and five-gallon units and will sell at substantial discounts for selected items. The site will also sell brushes, scrapers, tape, buckets, faux finishing materials, and other sundries. More products will be added throughout 1999. A key feature will be free one-day delivery, initially along Florida's ''Treasure Coast'' from Miami north to Stewart, FL. Customers will also have the option to pay for delivery via standard shipping companies to any location not served by ThermaCell's existing delivery services. ''Everybody has one or two paint jobs they put off because they don't have the time,'' John Pidorenko, Chairman, President and CEO of ThermaCell. ''We'll make it easy to get those jobs done. Go to the web, select the products you want, fill out the order form, and everything you need will be at your home the next day. Based on the response we've received to date, we're very optimistic about the success of our new e-commerce website.'' ThermaCell Technologies, Inc. is a vertically integrated manufacturer and marketer of technologically enhanced coatings and building materials that provide greater insulation, protection, strength, longevity and value at a lower cost than conventional materials. Company Contact: Gary Fishman or Kimberly Boshara at 212-527-4808. Forward-Looking Statements: This news release contains certain ''forward-looking'' statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which provides a new ''safe harbor'' for these types of statements. To the extent statements in this news release involve, without limitation, product development and introduction plans, the Company's expectations for growth, estimates of future revenue, expenses, profit, cash flow, balance sheet items, sell-through or backlog, forecasts of demand or market trends for the Company's product categories and for the industries in which the Company operates, or any other guidance on future periods, these statements are forward-looking statements. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements.