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Citigroup Inc. is a diversified global financial
services holding company whose businesses provide a broad
range of financial services to consumer and corporate customers.
The Company has over 192 million customer accounts in over
100 countries and territories. The Company's activities are
conducted through Global Consumer, which delivers a wide array
of banking, lending, insurance and investment services; Global
Corporate, which provides corporations, governments, institutions
and investors with a broad range of financial products and
services; Global Investment Management, which offers a broad
range of life insurance, annuities and asset management products
and services; Private Banking, which consists of traditional
banking activities, and Investment Activities, which consists
of the Company's venture capital activities. |
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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) is
a financial holding company with operations in over 50 countries.
Its principal bank subsidiaries are JPMorgan Chase Bank in
New York, and Chase Manhattan Bank USA in Delaware. JPMorgan
Chase's principal non-bank subsidiary is its investment bank,
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. JPMorgan Chase's activities are
internally organized into five major business segments: Investment
Bank, Treasury & Securities Services, Investment Management
& Private Banking, JPMorgan Partners and Retail & Middle Market
Financial Services. As of December 31, 2001, the Company had
$694 billion in assets and $41 billion in stockholders' equity.
In November 2001, the Company merged its two lead banks, The
Chase Manhattan Bank and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of
New York. The name of the merged bank is JPMorgan Chase Bank. |
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American Express Company is engaged primarily
in the business of providing travel-related services, financial
advisory services and international banking services throughout
the world. The Company provides charge and credit cards, travelers
checks, travel services, financial planning, investment products,
insurance and international banking. American Express Travel
Related Services Company, Inc. provides a global card network,
issuing and processing services, the American Express Card,
the Optima Card, a number of co-brand Cards, other consumer
and corporate lending and banking products, a network of automated
teller machines, the American Express Travelers Cheque, stored
value products, business expense management products and services,
corporate and consumer travel products and services, tax,
accounting and business consulting services, magazine publishing,
merchant transaction processing and point of sale and back
office products and services. |
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eBay Inc. is a United States-based dynamic pricing
online trading platform located at www.ebay.com. eBay developed
a Web-based community in which buyers and sellers are brought
together in an efficient format to buy and sell items, such
as collectibles, automobiles, high-end or premium art items,
jewelry, consumer electronics and a host of practical and
miscellaneous items. The eBay dynamic pricing (auction-style)
format permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid
on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through
listed items. eBay's service is fully automated, topically
arranged and easy to use. Through its wholly owned and partially
owned subsidiaries and affiliates, the Company operates trading
platforms in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom,
Australia, Japan, Canada, France, Austria, Italy and South
Korea. For the second quarter of 2001, eBay expects to expand
its online trading to include Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium,
Portugal, Sweden and Brazil. |
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Dell Computer Corporation is the world's largest
direct computer systems company. The Company offers its customers
a full range of computer systems, including desktop computer
systems, notebook computers, workstations, network servers
and storage products, as well as an extended selection of
peripheral hardware, computing software and related services.
Additionally, the Company offers an array of services to support
its customers' online initiatives. The Company's direct model
offers in-person relationships with corporate and institutional
customers, as well as telephone and Internet purchasing, built-to-order
computer systems, telephone and online technical support and
onsite product service. Dell sells its products and services
to large corporate, government, healthcare and education customers,
small-to-medium businesses and individuals. |
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Amazon.com, Inc. is a Website where customers
can find and discover anything they may want to buy online.
The Company lists millions of unique items in categories such
as books, music, DVDs, videos, consumer electronics, toys,
camera and photo items, software, computer and video games,
tools and hardware, lawn and patio items, kitchen products,
and wireless products. Through its Amazon Marketplace, Auctions
and zShops services, any business or individual can sell virtually
anything to the Company's approximately 30 million cumulative
customers, and with Amazon.com Payments, sellers can accept
credit card transactions. In addition to its U.S.-based Website,
www.amazon.com, the Company operates four internationally
focused Websites: www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.fr
and www.amazon.co.jp. The Company also operates the Internet
Movie Database (www.imdb.com), a comprehensive and authoritative
source of information on movies and entertainment titles,
and cast and crewmembers. |
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AT&T Corporation provides voice, data and video
communications services to large and small businesses, consumers
and government entities. AT&T and its subsidiaries furnish
domestic and international long distance, regional, local
and wireless communications services, and cable (broadband)
television and Internet communications services. AT&T also
provides billing, directory and calling card services to support
its communications business. AT&T's primary lines of business
are business services, consumer services, broadband services
and wireless services. In addition, AT&T's other lines of
business include network management and professional services
through AT&T Solutions, and international operations and ventures. |
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priceline.com Incorporated has pioneered an
e-commerce pricing system, known as a demand collection system,
which enables consumers to use the Internet to save money
on a range of products and services, while enabling sellers
to generate incremental revenue. Using its consumer proposition,
"Name Your Own Price," the Company collects consumer demand,
in the form of individual customer offers, for a particular
product or service at a price set by the customer. The Company,
incorporated in 1997, then either communicates that demand
directly to participating sellers or accesses a proprietary
database of inventory available to the Company for purchase
and, based upon the customer's offer price, elects whether
or not to accept that customer's offer. Consumers agree to
hold their offers open for a specified period of time and,
once fulfilled, offers generally cannot be canceled. |
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E*TRADE Group, Inc. is engaged in online personal
financial services offering value-added investing, banking,
research and educational tools, customer service and a proprietary
Stateless Architecture infrastructure to its customers through
services provided by its wholly owned subsidiaries, including
E*TRADE Securities, Inc. (CCS), TIR (Holdings) Limited, E*TRADE
Bank, Card Capture Services, Inc., now E*TRADE Access Inc.,
VERSUS Technologies, Inc. and other international subsidiaries.
The Company offers automated order placement and execution,
financial products and services that can be personalized,
including portfolio tracking, charting and quote applications,
real-time market commentary and analysis, news, professional
research reports and other information services. Its products
also include mutual funds, proprietary mutual funds, bond
trading, banking, automated teller machine (ATM) services,
and access to participate in initial public offerings (IPOs).
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Delta Air Lines, Inc. is an air carrier that
provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and freight
throughout the United States and around the world. As of February
1, 2001, Delta (including its wholly owned subsidiaries, Atlantic
Southeast Airlines, Inc. and Comair, Inc.) served 201 domestic
cities in 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico
and the United States Virgin Islands, as well as 50 cities
in 32 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Caribbean
and Canada. An important characteristic of Delta's route network
is its four hub airports in Atlanta, Cincinnati, Dallas/Ft.
Worth and Salt Lake City. Each of these hub operations includes
Delta flights that gather and distribute traffic from markets
in the geographic region surrounding the hub to other major
cities and to other Delta hubs. |
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Intel Corporation is a semiconductor chip maker,
supplying the computing and communications industries with
chips, boards and systems building blocks that are integral
to computers, servers and networking and communications products.
Its products are offered at various levels of integration,
and are used by industry members to create advanced computing
and communications systems. The Company historically was organized
into five product line operating segments, consisting of the
Intel Architecture Group, the Wireless Communications and
Computing Group, the Communications Products Group, the Network
Communications Group and the New Business Group. In March
2001, the Company announced that it is combining its Network
Communications Group and its Communications Products Group
into a single business unit aimed at providing building blocks
for networking and telecommunications customers worldwide. |
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is principally engaged
in the operation of mass merchandising stores. At January
31, 2001, the Company operated 1,736 discount stores, 888
Supercenters, 475 SAM'S Clubs and 19 Neighborhood Markets.
Internationally, at January 31, 2001, the Company operated
units in Argentina (11), Brazil (20), Canada (174), Germany
(94), Korea (6) Mexico (499), Puerto Rico (15) and the United
Kingdom (241), and, under joint venture agreements, in China
(11). The Company operates through three segments, the Wal-Mart
Stores segment, the SAM'S Club segment and the International
segment. |
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Drugstore.com, Inc. is an online drugstore,
a retail store and information site for health, beauty, wellness,
personal care and pharmacy products. The Company designed
its store to provide a convenient, private and informative
shopping experience that encourages consumers to purchase
products essential to healthy, everyday living. Its Website
can be accessed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere
that a consumer has Internet access. The Company offers a
larger selection of products than typical store-based retailers,
along with health-related information, buying guides and other
tools designed to help consumers make more educated purchasing
decisions. Its shopping lists and e-mail reminders are designed
to make it easier for its customers to regularly purchase
their preferred products. The markets the Company addresses
can be divided into five primary categories: health, beauty,
wellness, personal care and pharmacy. |
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Avon Products, Inc. is a global manufacturer
and marketer of beauty and related products, which include
cosmetics, fragrance and toiletries, Beauty Plus, which consists
of jewelry, watches and accessories, and apparel, and Beyond
Beauty, which consists of gift and decorative, home entertainment
and health and nutrition products. Avon's business is focused
on direct selling, which is conducted in North America, Latin
America, the Pacific and Europe. The Company has operations
in 52 countries outside the United States and its products
are distributed in 86 other countries, for coverage in 139
markets. Avon has entered 26 new markets since 1990, including
Russia and China, as well as nations throughout Central Europe,
and is evaluating several other markets in Eastern Europe
and the Pacific region. |
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barnesandnoble.com inc. is a holding company
whose sole asset is its 27.6% equity interest in barnesandnoble.com
llc (B&N.com), and whose sole business is acting as sole manager
of B&N.com. B&N.com is focused on the sale of a broad range
of knowledge-, information-, education- and entertainment-related
products. Since opening its online store in March 1997, B&N.com
has attracted more than 7.9 million customers in 228 countries.
In addition to books, the B&N.com Website, www.bn.com, offers
music, DVD/ video, magazines and related products. B&N.com's
online bookstore includes an extensive in-stock selection
of in-print book titles, supplemented by more than 20 million
listings from its nationwide network of out-of-print, rare
and used book dealers. It also offers a comprehensive online
selection of college textbooks, in addition to eBooks. |
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CVS Corporation is principally engaged in the
retail drugstore business. As of December 30, 2000, the Company
operated 4,133 retail and specialty pharmacy drugstores and
various mail-order facilities located in 31 states and the
District of Columbia. During 2000, the Company dispensed 300
million prescriptions. The Company's operations are grouped
into four businesses, Retail Pharmacy, Pharmacy Benefit Management,
Specialty Pharmacy and Internet Pharmacy. |
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American Greetings Corporation and its subsidiaries
operate predominantly in a single industry: the design, manufacture
and sale of everyday and seasonal greeting cards and other
social expression products. AmericanGreetings.com Inc. (89%
owned) markets e-mail greetings, personalized greeting cards
and other social expression products through the Company's
Websites, www.americangreetings.com, www.egreetings.com, and
www.beatgreets.com, as well as co-branded Websites and online
services. AmericanGreetings.com also provides design and verse
content, which is included in various CD-Rom software products
for use on personal computers. AmericanGreetings.com also
operates eAgents, an electronic newsletter that consolidates
and delivers personalized content from top Internet sites
to subscribers. |
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SBC Communications Inc. is a provider of telecommunications
services in the United States and worldwide. Through its subsidiaries,
the Company provides communications services and products
in the United States and has investments in more than 25 countries.
The services and products that the Company offers vary by
market, and include: local exchange services, wireless communications,
long distance services, Internet services, telecommunications
equipment, messaging, paging and directory advertising and
publishing. The Company offers its services and products to
businesses and consumers, as well as other providers of telecommunications
services. |
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Ashford.com, Inc. is a Web-based retailer focused
on luxury and premium products, including new and vintage
watches, clocks, diamonds, jewelry, leather goods, writing
instruments, fragrances, sunglasses, ties and scarves, altogether
offering more than 14,000 styles of products from over 350
leading luxury brands. During the past year the Company has
rapidly expanded its primary product focus from offering only
new watches to offering 11 different product categories. The
Company's Web site features detailed product information,
helpful and useful shopping services and innovative merchandising
through easy-to-navigate Web pages. The Company offers customers
the convenience and flexibility of shopping 24 hours a day,
seven days a week, from their homes, offices or other locations.
In addition, the Company carries almost all of the products
it sells in inventory, which enables it to ship most products
to its customers within 24 hours. |
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Autoweb.com, Inc. is a consumer automotive Internet
service. The Company's Website centralizes an extensive collection
of automotive-related commerce, content and community offerings
to assist consumers in researching, evaluating and buying
vehicles and automotive-related products and services such
as insurance and financing. In addition, the Company provides
automotive content, Web hosting and development services and
sales automation services to vehicle manufacturers, dealers
and online partners. |
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Borders Group Inc., through its subsidiaries,
Borders, Inc. (Borders), Walden Book Company, Inc. (Walden),
Books etc., and others is the second largest operator of book
superstores and the largest operator of mall-based bookstores
in the world, based upon both sales and number of stores.
At January 28, 2001, the Company operated 349 superstores,
primarily under the Borders name, including nine in the United
Kingdom, two in Australia, and one each in Singapore, New
Zealand and Puerto Rico. The Company also operated 869 mall-based
and other bookstores, primarily under the Waldenbooks name
and 31 bookstores under the Books etc. name in the United
Kingdom. The Company is also an online retailer of books,
music, and video through the operation of its Internet commerce
site, Borders.com. |
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Brookstone, Inc. is a nationwide specialty retailer
offering an assortment of consumer products functional in
purpose, distinctive in quality and design, and not widely
available from other retailers. The Company's merchandise
includes lawn and garden, health and fitness, home and office
and travel and auto products. Brookstone sells its products
through 225 stores in 38 states and the District of Columbia.
The Company also operates a direct marketing business, which
includes its traditional Hard-to-Find Tools, its Brookstone
Gift Collection and its Gardeners Eden catalogs in addition
to an interactive Internet site, www.Brookstone.com. |
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buy.com Inc. is a multi-category Internet superstore
that offers a broad selection of brand name computer hardware
and peripherals, software, books, videos, DVDs, computer games,
music, clearance products, consumer electronics, sporting
goods, office products and supplies, and wireless products
and services at everyday low prices. The e-commerce portal,
www.buy.com, links the Company's 11 specialty stores. Through
these online stores, the Company offers products in a convenient,
easy-to-use shopping interface that features extensive product
information and multi-media presentations 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. The Company has selected its stores based
upon product lines that are intended to have large market
potential, are well suited for e-commerce and are in industries
that allow the Company to establish a relationship with a
dominant distributor. |
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CNET Networks, Inc. is a global source of technology
and commerce-related information, data, exchanges and services
that produces a branded Internet network, a print publication,
a computer product database and television and radio programming
for both consumers and businesses. Using unbiased content
as its platform, CNET Networks has built marketplaces for
technology and consumer products and, through its CNET Data
Services (CDS) subsidiary, is the primary provider of information
powering the computer and electronics sales and distribution
channels. The Company's Internet operations are comprised
of its Internet network, CDS and CNET ChannelOnline businesses.
The Company's Internet network, including CNET.com, ZDNet.com,
mySimon.com and dozens of sub-brands, serves millions of users
each day. The Company's global media network includes an Internet
presence in over 25 countries. |
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coolsavings.com inc. is a comprehensive e-marketing
solution that provides targeted advertising and promotional
incentives to help offline and online companies identify,
acquire and retain active shoppers. With a database of more
than 13 million registered consumers as of March 1, 2001,
the Company supplies marketers with a single resource for
accessing and engaging a dynamic group of shoppers. Through
its customized, integrated e-marketing products, advertisers
can target a wide array of incentives, including printed and
electronic coupons, personalized e-mails, rebates, samples,
sales notices, gift certificates and contests, to promote
sales of products or services and drive customers into brick-and-mortar
stores or online sites. |
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The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries,
is a diversified worldwide entertainment company with operations
in five business segments: Media Networks; Studio Entertainment,
which produces live-action and animated motion pictures, television
animation programs, musical recordings and live stage plays.;
Parks & Resorts; Consumer Products, which licenses the Company's
characters and other intellectual property for use in connection
with merchandise and publications and publishes books and
magazines; and the Internet Group |
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E-LOAN, Inc. is an online provider of consumer
loans, offering borrowers the ability to obtain a suitable
loan for their personal financial needs. E-LOAN is a diversified
consumer lender offering mortgage loans, home equity lines
of credit, auto loans, credit cards and small business loans.
E-LOAN originates loans through its Website, providing its
borrowers with a combination of streamlined technology, personal
customer service and cost savings. E-LOAN's Website provides
borrowers access to a wide range of consumer debt information
and interactive tools. |
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Equifax, Incorporated is engaged in facilitating
and securing commerce by bringing buyers and sellers together
worldwide through information, transaction processing and
Internet businesses. Global operations include consumer and
commercial credit information services, credit card marketing
and processing services, check guarantee and authorization,
software, modeling, database management, marketing solutions,
analytics, direct to consumer services, Internet identity
verification and digital certificate services; and, through
September 2000, risk management and collection services. The
Company's business areas are divided into separate groups
and are conducted on a "profit center" basis with self-contained
functional integrity, although Equifax supplies centralized
overall financial, legal, communications, media relations,
tax and similar services. |
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Fashionmall.com, Inc. operates multiple Internet
properties within the fashion lifestyle segment and generates
revenues from these properties by charging fees for the placement
of a store, links, advertising, content, or other materials
on the sites. The Company's properties include www.fashionmall.com,
which is a general fashion mall; www.outletmall.com, its online
outlet mall; and www.boo.com, a global style guide for the
Web. Clients include traditional and on-line retailers and
catalogs' as well as manufacturers, magazines, and advertisers
who desire to tap into its consumer traffic. Clients typically
pay a fixed or variable fee for site placements tied to the
location and or amount of traffic they are exposed to. |
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Fossil, Inc. is engaged in the design, development,
marketing and distribution of watches, fashion accessories,
apparel and other products. Since its inception in 1984, the
Company has grown from its original flagship Fossil watch
product into a diversified company, offering an extensive
line of fashion watches, small leather goods, belts, handbags
and sunglasses under the Fossil and Relic brands and Fossil
brand apparel. In addition to developing its own brands, the
Company leverages its development and production expertise
by designing and manufacturing private-label products for
companies that include national retailers, entertainment companies
and theme restaurants. |
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FTD.COM, INC. is an Internet and telephone marketer
of flowers and specialty gifts that began selling products
directly to consumers through the 1-800-SEND-FTD toll-free
telephone number in 1993 and electronically to consumers through
the WWW.FTD.COM Website in 1994. The Company offers same-day
delivery of floral orders to nearly 100% of the United States
population. The majority of floral orders are fulfilled by
a group of independent FTD florists that adhere to FTD.COM's
quality and service standards. The Company offers over 400
floral arrangements and over 600 specialty gift items, including
gourmet gift baskets, holiday gift sets, bath and beauty products,
garden products and stuffed animals. Product offerings are
available at prices ranging from $17.99 to over $200. |
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The Gap, Inc. is a global specialty retailer
that operates stores selling casual apparel, personal care
and other accessories for men, women and children under the
Gap, Banana Republic and Old Navy brands. As of March 3, 2001,
the Company operated 3,740 stores in the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The Company
designs virtually all of its products, which in turn are manufactured
by independent sources, and sells them under its brands in
the store formats, which include Gap, Banana Republic and
Old Navy. |
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Hershey Foods Corporation and its subsidiaries
are engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of consumer
food products. The Company produces and distributes a broad
line of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery and grocery
products. Hershey's principal product groups include chocolate
and non-chocolate confectionery products sold in the form
of bar goods, bagged items and boxed items, and grocery products
sold in the form of baking ingredients, chocolate drink mixes,
peanut butter, dessert toppings and beverages. |
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iGo Corporation designs, manufactures and distributes
parts and accessories for mobile technology products, such
as laptops, cell phones and wireless devices. iGo's mission
is to help keep the mobile professional powered up and connected.
iGo's products are available toll-free, online, through a
dedicated corporate account team, through hundreds of resellers
and via a direct marketing catalog. Some of iGo's corporate
accounts include AT&T, UPS, Johnson & Johnson and Merck. At
year-end 2000, the Company's customer database included profiles
of over 750,000 mobile users and detailed transaction histories
on over 300,000 buyers. Approximately 65% of the Fortune 500
has purchased products or services from the Company. In addition,
the Company has developed strategic relationships with key
business partners, such as IBM, Acer, Ariba, Motorola, NEC,
AT&T, Ingram Micro, LetsTalk.com, Perksatwork.com, PurchasePro,
United Airlines and Delta Airlines. |
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iPrint Technologies, Inc. is an online provider
of print and private-labeled print services for the business
market, allowing customers to design and order customized
printed products, including stationery, forms and promotional
products. For the three months ended 3/31/01, revenues rose
5% to $3.2 million. Net loss decreased 55% to $5.3 million.
Results reflect an increase in specialized print services
and a decrease in advertising and promotional spending. |
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Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. an integrated
content and commerce company that creates how-to content and
related merchandise for homemakers and other consumers. The
Company's products bear the well-known Martha Stewart brand
name, which the Company leverages across a broad range of
media and retail outlets. The Company primarily focuses on
the domestic arts, providing consumers with the how-to ideas,
information, merchandise and other resources they need to
raise the quality of living in and around their homes. The
Company comprises four business segments, including Publishing,
Television, Merchandising and Internet/Direct Commerce, through
which content and merchandise relating to its eight core content
areas are created and distributed to consumers. |
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Mattel, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets
a broad variety of toy products on a worldwide basis through
both sales to retailers and direct to consumers. Mattel's
portfolio of brands and products are grouped in categories
consisting of Girls, including Barbie fashion dolls and accessories,
collector dolls, Cabbage Patch Kids, Polly Pocket and Diva
Starz; Boys-Entertainment, including Hot Wheels, Matchbox,
Tyco Electric Racing and Tyco Radio Control, Disney, Nickelodeon,
Harry Potter, Max Steel and games and puzzles; Infant & Preschool,
including Fisher-Price, Power Wheels, Sesame Street, Disney
preschool and plush, Winnie the Pooh, Blues Clues, See 'N
Say, Magna Doodle and View-Master, and Direct Marketing, including
American Girl, Barbie, Wheels and Fisher-Price. |
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MP3.com, Inc. is engaged in a new approach to
the promotion and distribution of music. The MP3.com Website
is an online music destination representing one of the largest
catalogs of digital music available on the Internet. MP3.com
uses the Internet and file formats that make music files smaller
to enable its growing number of artists to broadly distribute
and promote their music and to enable consumers around the
world to conveniently access this continually expanding music
catalog. Consumers can search for, listen to and download
music free of charge on the MP3.com Website. In addition to
the wide variety of music distributed by artists through the
MP3.com Website, consumers have a substantial amount of music
already in their personal music collections that they want
to access, manage and listen to in a variety of ways. |
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Multex.com, Inc. is a global provider of investment
information and technology solutions to the financial services
industry. The Company's products include MultexNET, which
provides access to real-time broker research, MultexEXPRESS,
offering development, hosting and real-time distribution of
information for institutional clients; MultexNet On-Demand,
which provides access to pay-per-view research on a delayed
basis; Multex Investor, offering free and pay-per-view research
on a delayed basis, and Market Guide, which provides financial
and corporate information on over 15,000 publicly trated companies.
Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution
partners including Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!,
Quicken.com, CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com. |
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VeriSign, Inc. is a provider of infrastructure
services to Website owners, enterprises, e-commerce service
providers and individuals. Effective January 1, 2001, the
Company was organized into two customer-focused lines of business.
The Mass Markets Division focuses on delivering all of its
products and services to small and medium-size enterprises,
as well as to consumers that wish to establish a presence
on the Web. The Enterprise and Service Provider Division focuses
on delivering all of its products and services to larger enterprises
and service providers around the world that want to establish
and deliver secure Internet-based services to their customers
in both business-to-consumer and business-to-business environments. |
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In 1901, John W. Nordstrom used his stake from
the Alaska gold rush to open a small shoe store in Seattle,
Washington. Today, Nordstrom is one of the nation's leading
fashion retailers, offering a wide variety of fine quality
apparel, shoes and accessories for men, women and children.
Now in our 100th year, we operate stores across the country
and remain committed to our founding principles of quality,
value, selection and service. |
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OfficeMax, Inc. operates a chain of high-volume,
deep-discount office products superstores. As of January 27,
2001, OfficeMax owned and operated 995 superstores in 49 states,
Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands. In addition
to offering office products, business machines and related
items, OfficeMax superstores also feature CopyMax and FurnitureMax,
in-store modules devoted exclusively to print-for-pay services
and office furniture. Additionally, the Company reaches customers
with over 20,000 items through its e-commerce site, OfficeMax.com,
its direct-mail catalogs and its outside sales force, all
of which are serviced by its 19 delivery centers and two national
call/customer contact.htm centers. Through joint venture partnerships,
OfficeMax operates stores internationally in Mexico and Brazil. |
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Cyberian Outpost, Inc. is a global Internet-only
retailer featuring over 170,000 consumer technology and related
products for the home and office. The Company offers an online
"superstore" at www.Outpost.com that provides one-stop shopping
for domestic and international customers, 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. The Company's superstore features computer
hardware, software and accessories. The Company also sells
software for leading publishers. Additionally, the Company
offers downloadable software and online licensing. The Company
offers a full range of consumer electronics in the Tweeter.Outpost.com
store, unique consumer products in the Brookstone.Outpost.com
store, and a wide selection of photographic equipment and
services offered via the Company's partnership with Wolf Camera. |
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Zones, Inc., formerly known as Multiple Zones,
Inc., is a single-source direct reseller of multiple brands
of information technology products and services to the small
to medium-sized (SMB) market, featuring over 150,000 products
and services from more than 2150 vendors. Zones provides technology
products and services through multiple demand generation and
sales channels, including specialty print and e-catalogs,
inbound and outbound telesales outbound account managers and
a direct sales force. In addition, the Company has extensive
e-business capabilities through a general Web shopping center,
as well as custom and off-the-shelf customer-specific e-business
sites. |
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PETsMART, Inc. is an operator of superstores
specializing in pet food, supplies and services. As of November
2000, the Company operated more than 530 superstores in the
United States and Canada. The Company offers a complete assortment
of pet products at prices typically at or below those offered
by supermarkets, mass merchandisers and traditional pet food
and supply retailers, as well as a wide range of pet services.
Through PETsMART Direct, its Internet and catalog division,
the Company is a leading worldwide direct marketer of pet-related
products. PETsMART Direct and its affiliates sell pet supplies
and products to individuals and small businesses through five
catalogs and a website, www.petsmart.com. Through State Line
Tack, a worldwide catalog retailer, the Company specializes
in discount brand name tack, riding apparel and equine supplies.
At January 30, 2001, veterinary clinics were operating in
approximately half of all PETsMART stores in North America. |
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Sony Corporation develops, designs, manufactures
and sells electronic equipment, instruments and devices for
consumer and professional markets. Sony develops, produces,
manufactures and markets home-use entertainment hardware and
software, principally through Sony Computer Entertainment.
Sony also develops, produces, manufactures and distributes
recorded music through Sony Music Entertainment Inc. and Sony
Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc.The Company develops, produces,
manufactures, markets, distributes and broadcasts image-based
software, including film, video, television and new entertainment
technologies through Sony Pictures Entertainment. Sony conducts
insurance operations through Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
and Sony Assurance Inc. In addition, Sony is engaged in leasing
and credit financing, satellite distribution services including
program supplying businesses in Japan, Internet-related businesses,
location-based entertainment complexes and other businesses.
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Sotheby's Holdings, Inc. is an auctioneer of
fine arts, antiques and collectibles, offering property in
over 90 collecting categories, among them paintings, jewelry,
decorative arts and books. In addition to both live and Internet
auctioneering, the Company's Auction segment is engaged in
a number of related activities, including the purchase and
resale of art and other collectibles, and the brokering of
art and collectible purchases and sales through private treaty
sales. The Company also markets and brokers luxury residential
real estate through its Real Estate segment, conducts art-related
financing activities through its Finance segment, and is engaged,
to a lesser extent, in insurance brokerage, art education
and restoration activities. |
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Sprint PCS Group operates a 100% digital PCS
wireless network in the United States, using a single frequency
and a single technology. Sprint PCS, a subsidiary of Sprint
Corporation, comprises Sprint Corporations' wireless PCS operations.
The Company provides nationwide service through operating
its own digital network in major United States metropolitan
areas; affiliating with other companies, mainly in and around
smaller United States metropolitan areas; roaming on other
providers' analog cellular networks using dual-band/dual-mode
handsets; and roaming on other providers' digital PCS networks
that use code division multiple access. At year-end 2000,
the PCS Group, together with affiliates, operated PCS systems
in over 300 metropolitan markets. The service offered by the
Company and its affiliates reaches more than 220 million people. |
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Staples, Inc. is an office products distributor
with 1,307 retail stores located in the United States, Canada,
the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal,
as of February 3, 2001. The Staples' North American Retail
segment consists of the United States and Canadian operating
units that operate office supply stores. The Contract and
Commercial segment consists of Staples Direct, Contract, Quill
Corporation and Staples Communications, which sell office
products, supplies and services directly to businesses throughout
the United States and Canada. The Staples.com segment includes
the operations of Staples' e-commerce sites. The European
Operations segment consists of six operating units that operate
office supply stores in the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands
and Portugal, and sell office products and supplies to businesses
throughout the United Kingdom and Germany. In April 2001,
the Company sold Staples Communications to Platinum Equity
L.L.C. of Los Angeles. |
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Toys R Us, Inc. provides toys, apparel and baby
needs to children and their families. As of December 2000,
the Company was engaged in the operation of 1,578 retail stores
consisting of United States locations comprised of 708 toy
stores under the name "Toys "R" Us," 198 children's clothing
stores under the name "Kids "R" Us," 143 infant-toddler stores
under the name "Babies "R" Us", and 41 educational specialty
stores under the name "Imaginarium." Internationally, the
Company operates 488 toy stores, including franchise and joint
venture stores, under the name "Toys "R" Us." The Company
also sells merchandise through its Internet sites at www.toysrus.com
and www.imaginarium.com, and through mail order catalogues. |
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Travelocity is a provider of consumer-directed
travel content and travel reservation services on the Internet.
For the three months ended 3/31/01, total revenues totaled
$72.9 million, up from $27 million. Net loss before accounting
change totaled $28.3 million, up from $9.1 million. Total
revenues reflect increased sales on the Companys site and
higher advertising revenues. Net loss reflects the inclusion
of a higher amortization of intangible assets charge. |
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The Sports Authority, Inc. is a sporting goods
retailer. The Company offers customers extensive selections
of quality, brand name athletic footwear, apparel and sporting
equipment, and high levels of customer service. As of November
2000, it operated 199 sporting goods superstores in the United
States. The Company ceased operating its five stores in Canada
in March 2000. Mega Sports Co., Ltd., which is now 8.4% owned
by the Company, is a joint venture that operates another 19
stores in Japan under a license agreement with the Company.
The Company also owns 19.9% of TheSportsAuthority.com, Inc.,
a joint venture that, since November of 1999, has operated
its retail e-commerce site. |
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