LONG BEACH, Calif., June 29, 2000 (PRIMEZONE) -- b2bstores.com (Nasdaq:BTBC), a vertically integrated business-to-business e-commerce site, today announced a partnership with Internet Wire, Inc., the leading Internet-based distributor of direct company news and other business communications materials, to offer company press release services to b2bstores.com members through the b2bstores.com web site.
b2bstores.com members now have the capability to enlist Internet Wire to deliver their company's news directly to media, analysts, web sites, and targeted consumers. Internet Wire's Multipoint Internet Distribution platform allows members' news, audio/video, and marketing materials to be delivered to a targeted, worldwide audience in a fully interactive, real-time format. With the ability to include company logos, graphics, spreadsheets, rich media, and promotional webcasts with company news distribution, members increase the impact of their news through Internet Wire's press release services.
"Through the b2bstores.com web site, entrepreneurs may reach thousands of print, online, and broadcast media with Internet Wire's daily e-mail delivery channels that traditional news distribution channels do not customarily reach," said b2bstores.com CEO, WooJin Kim. "This gives b2bstores.com members' company news a broader reach through industry-specific channels."
"Internet Wire currently reaches as many as 28,000 individual editors and reporters at newspapers, magazines, news wires, and more," said Internet Wire chairman/CEO, Michael Terpin. "The new relationship between b2bstores.com and Internet Wire potentially expands b2bstores.com members' reach to a targeted audience, specified by their company."
About Internet Wire
Internet Wire, Inc., distributes direct company news, including press releases, financial announcements, graphics, multimedia files, and other business communications materials, to a worldwide audience of media, analysts and consumers via email, the Web and online syndication. Internet Wire content is carried on the Bloomberg global terminal system, syndicated online through iSyndicate, Screaming Media, Wavo and COMTEX News Network and is aggregated on numerous sites around the Web. With offices in Los Angeles, New York and Silicon Valley, the Company was incorporated in January 1999, after evolving from gina.com, which has been online since 1994.
For more information, contact Internet Wire, Inc. at 5757 Century Blvd., Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Voice: (800) 77-IWIRE. Fax: (310) 846-3700. Email: info@internetwire.com. Web: www.internetwire.com.
About b2bstores.com
b2bstores.com, a comprehensive business-to-business Internet destination for organizations of all sizes, delivers top-quality business-related products and services combined with valuable information resources through a complete, integrated, user-friendly web site. Located in downtown Long Beach, California, b2bstores.com is traded on the Nasdaq Market under the symbol "BTBC." For more information, please visit our web site at www.b2bstores.com.