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collectibles.com Signs Internet Agreement With Leading Limoges Manufacturer
Business Wire, June 5, 2000
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000
Shop At Home, Inc. (Nasdaq: SATH), an electronic commerce leader in both the broadcast and Internet channels, has entered into an exclusive agreement with Artoria Limoges(TM) to sell select collectible Limoges boxes through collectibles.com(SM) (http://www.collectibles.com), the online community for business to consumer sales of collectibles. This announcement emphasizes the Company's determination to ensure that its business strategies are aligned with the expectations of shareholders and customers.
Artoria Limoges, the largest manufacturer of porcelain giftware and collectibles in Limoges, France, is a family owned and operated corporation that has been in business for many generations. Artoria has produced some of the finest works of porcelain in the world and has become known for the outstanding quality and fine craftsmanship of its hand-painted Limoges boxes. Artoria has retained and refined the skills of porcelain sculpting, molding, finishing and decorating utilizing many of the traditional techniques developed centuries ago. Each porcelain box made by Artoria Limoges and offered through collectibles.com is signed and numbered by the artist and comes with its own certificate of authenticity.
"We are very pleased to be able to offer our customers products from such a strong brand," says Marshall Karr, Vice President of Product Development for collectibles.com. "Artoria's Limoges boxes are collected all over the world by the most discriminating collectors and are renowned for the quality and uniqueness of their products. We will continue to establish relations with high quality vendors like Artoria in order to maintain our position as the premier website for collectibles."
Shop At Home, Inc., a leader in converged technology, is a leading retailer of specialty consumer products, primarily collectibles, through interactive electronic media including broadcast, cable and satellite television and, increasingly, over the Internet. Shop At Home Network reaches over 59 million unique cable and satellite households and is the Nation's 15th largest television broadcaster, through its ownership of full power television stations in San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Cleveland, Raleigh and Bridgeport, which is licensed to the New York market.
Shop At Home also operates collectibles.com, the leading online site for the retail sales of collectibles products that features state-of-the-art technology from Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL), BroadVision (Nasdaq: BVSN), iXL, Inc. (Nasdaq: IIXL) and others to offer collectors a unique online shopping experience. collectibles.com recently announced its first $100,000 sales day, and has completed exclusive-to-the-Internet distribution agreements with more than 60 of the leading manufacturers and licensees of collectibles products.
"Safe Harbor" Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 - This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ materially from those identified for a number of reasons as are discussed from time to time in Shop At Home's SEC reports, including but not limited to the registration statement on Form S-3 as amended on July 1, 1999, the report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 1999 (Business and Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations), the Form 10-Q filed for the Quarter ending December 31, 1999 and the current report on Form 8-K.
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