WeddingChannel.com Welcomes Amazon.com as Newest Premier Retailer to
Its Comprehensive Registry Service
-- World’s Largest Gift Registry
Service Expands Lifestyle Registry Offering with Amazon.com --
LOS ANGELES (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) February 27, 2008 --
WeddingChannel.com, the number one wedding and gift registry website and
creator of the largest gift registry services system, today announced
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) as the newest addition to its unmatched roster
of premier registry retailers. This collaboration enables engaged
couples to create, manage, and monitor their wedding registry from
leading online retailer Amazon.com via a patented multiregistry system
on WeddingChannel.com, which makes it easy for millions of wedding
guests to find and purchase a gift from 20 different retailers all on
one site.
Adding to its already extensive list of top-name retailers, such as Macy’s,
Tiffany & Co., and Pottery Barn, registrants on WeddingChannel.com will
now have access to the millions of products available in over 40
categories at Amazon.com. Amazon.com Wedding Registries offer everything
from traditional registry items such as kitchen appliances and bedding
to lifestyle-oriented offerings such as electronics, sporting goods, and
apparel, with millions of products available for FREE Super Saver
Shipping and Amazon Prime.* Customers looking for Amazon.com Wedding
Registries will be able to find them on both WeddingChannel.com and
Amazon.com.
“The addition of the Amazon.com Wedding
Registries to our offerings further establishes WeddingChannel.com as
the ultimate, one-stop destination for couples and wedding guests to
register for and buy wedding gifts,” said Didi
Engel, WeddingChannel.com vice president of registry. “With
more than 2.2 million registries from 20 premier retailers searchable in
our database, it’s never been easier for the
millions of gift buyers to find, purchase, and ship the perfect wedding
gift using our patented gift registry search engine anytime and anywhere.”
“We are very excited to team up with
WeddingChannel.com,” said Eva Manolis,
Amazon.com vice president of retail customer experience. “Amazon.com
is committed to being Earth’s most
customer-centric company, and we are pleased to offer customers low
prices, a vast selection, and the additional convenience of finding and
using Amazon.com Wedding Registries on WeddingChannel.com.”
To make finding a couple’s registry even
easier, when guests look for a couple’s
wedding registry on Amazon.com Wedding Registries, they can also
continue their search for the perfect gift through the use of a unique
WeddingChannel.com registry search tool. Wedding guests can then easily
find gifts that couples may have registered for at other exclusive
WeddingChannel.com retailer partners. This service-oriented experience
fulfills Amazon.com’s commitment to meet
customer needs and provide the greatest selection and convenience
possible.
“Teaming up with Amazon.com showcases how
WeddingChannel.com is truly dedicated to offering the most comprehensive
registry network in the world,” added Engel. “The
suite of registry programs on WeddingChannel.com, ranging from
traditional retailer offerings to honeymoon registries and the Charity
Donation Program, ensures that couples will find all the products
necessary to suit their individual lifestyles.”
For more information on the registry programs available at
WeddingChannel.com, visit the WeddingChannel.com Registry Center at www.weddingchannel.com/registry.
* Some restrictions apply; see www.amazon.com
for details.
NOTE TO EDITORS: For interviews with an expert or executive from
WeddingChannel.com, further information on the WeddingChannel.com
registry offerings, or to obtain statistics, tips, checklists, or
high-resolution photos, contact Jacalyn Lee, Public Relations Manager,
at 212.515.1598 or jlee@weddingchannel.com.
About WeddingChannel.com
WeddingChannel.com is the number one wedding and gift registry website,
offering comprehensive wedding planning content, interactive tools and a
central location for couples to manage their gift registries. The
patented registry system on WeddingChannel.com brings together
registries from the nation’s leading
retailers, including Tiffany & Co., Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Crate and
Barrel, and Pottery Barn, among others, allowing guests to search one
easy site to find a wedding gift. WeddingChannel.com is based in Los
Angeles and is a part of The Knot Inc. (NASDAQ: KNOT) lifestage media
network.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in
Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers
Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything
they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the
lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of
unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as books,
movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics & computers, home
& garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes & jewelry, health &
beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto & industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s
developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services
based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can
use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services
offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon
EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon
Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service
(Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com,
www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de,
www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr,
www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon
websites at www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, “Amazon.com,”
“we,” “our”
and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless
the context indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning
of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly
from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve
risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to
competition, management of growth, new products, services and
technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international
expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center
optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and
strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption,
significant amount of indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and
taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that
potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in
Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2007, and subsequent filings.
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