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Technology Stocks : ALU - Allou Health & Beauty: Another Web Play -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Quang Nguyen who wrote (168)	2/14/1999 9:32:00 AM
From: Quang Nguyen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 418

<continued from previous message> CNBC: And have they ever. Sales at Fragrance Counter dot-com have are up over four hundred percent during the past year. Revenues last quarter hit one-and-a-half million dollars. CNBC: But since there's no scratch & sniff technology on the internet, how successful can pefume sales be? VERY, according to the company, since most shoppers consisently buy the same product, or buy on a recommendation. EK: Eighty-five percent of the market...is is gained for buying fragrances online. CNBC: The Fragrance Counter charges the same prices as department stores. The company says its selling points are convenience, product selection and free shipping. CNBC: And Allou is also branching out from just perfumes. They've started a sister-site, Cosmetics Counter dot-com. EK: The market for Fragrances and Cosmetics in the Unites States is nineteen Billion dollars. Think about if you can get five percent of that market..that smells good." CNBC: There are other online sites for buying perfume... (shown onscreen are samples of perfumania.com and fragrancenet.com) ...but fragrance counter got a three year head-start on them. They like to think of themselves as the Amazon dot-com of perfume. CNBC: Yet other investors don't seem to view them that way... (onscreen is the familiar chart of ALU 1 year chart) ...Allou stock price sank from over fifteen dollars to under four last year. CNBC: It has since recovered but the executives are still frustrated. HJ: Just based on the value as a internet company, it should be double the value that it's now or even more. EK<grinning>: We get no respect. We're the Rodney Dangerfield of internet stocks. And obviously, you know, that's something we hope to change in the very near future. CNBC: So should investors smell an IPO spin-off of fc.com in the future? EK:<slyly grinning> I think we'd be remiss if we wouldn't be considering that.<sly grin> [back to live] GG: Well we should point out that there's currently no analyst coverage of Allou or fragrance counter dot-com so independant analysis of the company is limited. The Jacobs' family owns about a fifth of the outstanding that leaves about four-and-a-half million available to investors. GG: And Ahh-leww closed up today one-and-an-eighth at eleven and five sixteenths." runtime: approx. 3 1/2 minutes Notes: This is from the Yahoo board. Thanks to the guy. Good luck all. b1bltn.