Wells Fargo Plays Cupid With Online Gift Giving Ideas for Valentine's Day; Online Service Offers Discounted Presents and Surprises at the Click of a Button

Business Wire, Feb 4, 1999

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 1999--Wells Fargo today announced a Valentine's Day gift shopping area on its popular personal banking site (www.wellsfargo.com), extending the level of its services to online customers and to anyone surfing the Net for a special gift for their loved one.

A range of gift ideas and purchasing options are available to anyone interested in taking advantage of Wells Fargo's easy-to-use Valentine's Day gift catalog. This special feature offers leading products and services from a well-known cast of Valentine's Day favorites: fresh roses from Flowers USA, world-renowned chocolates from See's Candies, animated musical greeting cards from Greeting-cards.com and customized love songs from K-Tel.

"We want to provide time-saving services that are important in the busy lives of our customers and to those who seek a real sense of utility from the Internet," said Sharon Osberg, executive vice president of Online Financial Services at Wells Fargo. "As we continue to grow our online offerings, customers will be able to take advantage of a variety of new services from shopping to electronic bill delivery."

In fact, Wells Fargo was named one of the "Ten Best Financial Destination Sites" by TIME Digital in 1998. Wells Fargo is proud to offer the following gift ideas from its brand-name roster of merchant partners: -0-

--   Send traditional roses or a unique bouquet with a little help
     from Flowers USA. In a special arrangement with Wells Fargo,
     online customers and visitors alike will receive a 15% discount
     on flower orders and choose from a variety of seasonal
     arrangements that will be shipped fresh, quick and with care. As
     an additional feature, Flowers USA offers an e-mail reminder
     service for all special occasions.

--   Surprise a sweetheart with delicious candy and chocolates from
     See's Candies. Whether it's a box of traditional red hearts or
     gold and black truffles, the world famous See's Candies makes
     shopping for the right box of candy or chocolates easy and fun
     in three easy steps and fresh delivery is guaranteed throughout
     the U.S. A special line of Valentine's Day assortments is
     available, as are traditional favorites.

--   E-mail an interactive card to that Web-savvy loved one with
     Greeting-cards.com. Spirited musical greetings are available for
     those who enjoy the latest in digital technology. In minutes, and
     at the price of a traditional store-bought greeting card, an
     interactive card can be personalized with Valentine wishes and
     e-mailed anywhere in the world from the comfort of a user's home
     or office.

--   Create a customized Valentine's CD of popular love songs with
     K-Tel. For only $9.99, online customers and visitors to Wells
     Fargo can build a 10 track CD from a selection of more than 15
     award-winning love songs from "Unchained Melody" to "I Will
     Always Love You." In addition, online users can create their own
     title and select one of four Valentine's Day CD covers for this
     unique gift.

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Wells Fargo first offered online services in 1989, and in 1995 became the first major bank to offer its retail customers banking over the Internet. Today customers can access their account balances and transaction history, transfer funds between accounts, pay all of their bills, buy and sell securities, apply for consumer accounts and lines of credit, order travelers checks, cashiers checks, and foreign currency, and more through Wells Fargo Online. Currently, Wells Fargo has approximately 680,000 customers banking online.

Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo & Company has assets of $202 billion as of Dec. 31, 1998. -0-

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