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| 06.22.00 |
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WeddingChannel.com Survey Proves That Even Modern Couples Follow Traditional Paths Down the Aisle
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| 04.27.00 |
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Weddingchannel.com and WeddingChannel.com Merge To Create World's Definitive Marketplace for Weddings
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| 03.23.00 |
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Wedding Experts From WeddingChannel.com and Neiman Marcus Join Together To Reward Engaged Couples With Gifts and Tips for Wedding Season 2000
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| 02.24.00 |
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Tiffany & Co. Acquires 5% Stake in WeddingChannel.com
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| 01.21.00 |
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Unique Valentine's Gifts for Your True Love are Just a Click Away at WeddingChannel.com
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| 12.15.99 |
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Tis Truly Better to Give than Receive... as Long as You Give the Right Gift
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| 11.18.99 |
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WeddingChannel.com Launches Premier Gift-Giving Destination, Featuring Leading Brands Gap, Banana Republic, Amazon.com, Williams-Sonoma and More
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| 11.09.99 |
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WeddingChannel.com, with Leading Retail Partners Gap, Banana Republic, Amazon.com and Williams-Sonoma, Launches Web's Premier Gift-Giving Destination
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| 09.23.99 |
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WeddingChannel.com Secures Financing from Leading Retailers Including Amazon.com, Neiman Marcus, Crate & Barrel and Williams-Sonoma
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| 08.04.99 |
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WeddingChannel.com Unveils Online Gift Registry Featuring Leading Brands Including Crate & Barrel, Dillard's, Neiman Marcus, and Williams-Sonoma
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| 06.10.99 |
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WeddingChannel.com Launches Online Gift Registry, Bringing Together Wedding Registries of Premier Retailers |
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WeddingChannel.com allows people to drop subtle hints about desired gifts. |
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December 2, 1999
"You can tell someone that you're learning how to cook or what your favorite color is, and that inspires them about what a good gift would be," said Jenny
Lefcourt, co-founder of Della .com. "It's not just a list of items; it's a list that would inspire people."
- Los Angeles Times
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WeddingChannel.com aims to make holiday gift-getting easier. |
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November 16, 1999
"In an effort to cut down on the number of fruit cakes that are given as gifts this holiday season, online gift registry service Della .com has created a wish-list service to help folks get and give the perfect gift."
- Reuter's
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Yule Play: The Web's Cast Keeps Growing |
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November 9, 1999
"In referring to the frenetic pace of doing business on the Web, the
cyber-savvy in the fashion sector like to say that a day on the Internet is like a year in the brick-and-mortar world."
- Women's Wear Daily
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Gift registries flower online |
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September 28, 1999
"For retailers such as Amazon and Williams-Sonoma, an online gift registry is an effective marketing tool to lure new customers and limit customer returns. Yet they can also present many technical challenges to online retailers during and after the set-up process. Retailers can avoid these challenges by partnering with such sites as WeddingChannel.com, which provides product choices from many traditional and online retailers."
- CNET News.com
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WeddingChannel.com to Receive $45 Million From Investors |
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September 23, 1999
"WeddingChannel.com Inc., a bridal-registry site on the Internet that started operations just three months ago, is getting $45 million in equity from investors led by four big-league retailers, including Amazon.com Inc. and Neiman Marcus Group Inc."
- The Wall Street Journal
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Amazon invests in registry |
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September 23, 1999
"The move is seen as further broadening Amazon.com's (AMZN) online products and services range. The retailer began as an online bookshop in 1995, and has since added music, video, electronics, toys and an auction component. 'WeddingChannel.com offers a powerful, new use of the Internet that makes it fun and easy to find the right wedding gifts for family and friends,' said Joe Galli, president and chief operating officer of Amazon.com."
- CNNfn
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Amazon.com to Acquire 20% Stake in Online Gift Registry WeddingChannel.com |
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September 23, 1999
"It's a chance for us to have a relationship with the customer that expands beyond the wedding time frame,'' Patton said. "Baby gifts, kids' gifts, birthdays, holidays -- it's a huge area of opportunity because there's a real consumer benefit."
- Bloomberg News
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'Wed' sites march down aisle to profits
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June 30, 1999
"Weddings are big business. Each year in the
United States, 2.5 million couples become engaged and wedding registries
generate $17 billion in revenue, according to Forrester Research
(www.forrester.com), the Cambridge, Mass., online researcher."
- Reuters
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An e-commerce company is born: WeddingChannel.com go after the bridal registry market |
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June 22, 1999
"Last Spring, Jenny Lefcourt and Jessica DiLullo finished their first year at business school. Now, they're breaking new ground in the $17 billion bridal registry market as founders and vice presidents of WeddingChannel.com."
- CBS MarketWatch
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The Race for Top Bridal Web Site Heats Up |
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June 21, 1999
"And now comes a Silicon Valley start-up called WeddingChannel.com, which has combined elements of many of these other business models -- while also tackling the daunting job of integrating online bridal registries with the back-office data bases and order-fulfillment operations of major retailers."
- The New York Times
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Wedding Loot Goes Online: Gift Registries Partner With Retailers |
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June 18, 1999
"Summary: Online wedding sites are marrying traditional retailers and technology to help newlyweds fill their houses with gifts."
- ABCNEWS.com
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A Lift on Gifts |
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June 11, 1999
"Another June, another wedding season, another search for fluted champagne glasses or other suitable gifts. If you're tired of the trek, you might want to visit WeddingChannel.com (www.dellaandjames.com), the first online bridal registry to unite many popular national and local retailers in one location: Williams-Sonoma, Crate & Barrel, Neiman Marcus and Dillard's among others."
- Newsweek.com
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Upscale retailers link up for online bridal registry |
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June 10, 1999
"WeddingChannel.com Thursday debuted a Web site combining bridal gift registries for half a dozen retailers, including Gump's, Neiman Marcus (NMG) and Crate & Barrel. "For the average couple who registers at three different types of stores, we offer the broad range of retailers that best meets their needs," said WeddingChannel.com President Rebecca Patton. Buying wedding gifts is the perfect e-commerce application, she said. "Since couples have already selected the gifts they want, the gift givers have no need to touch or feel the products." The idea for the site was developed by Stanford University graduate business school students Jenny Lefcourt and Jessica DiLullo. They found backing from venture-capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Trinity Ventures."
- CBS MarketWatch
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Several Major Retailers Say 'I Do' To Wedding-Registry Web Site |
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June 9, 1999
"Five major national retailers, including Crate & Barrel and Neiman Marcus Group, have signed deals with a new wedding-registry Internet site, creating the largest online assembly of registries from multiple big-name stores... WeddingChannel.com may have an edge over rivals with the diversity of its retail partners."
- The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
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Retailers may pool wedding registries on Web |
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June 9, 1999
"Major U.S. retailers Crate & Barrel, Neiman Marcus Group, Williams-Sonoma, Dillard's, and Recreational Equipment, have signed agreements with online wedding registry site WeddingChannel.com..."
- Bloomberg News, Special to CNET News.com
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Wedding site marries retailers, brides |
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June 9, 1999
"WeddingChannel.com ... has signed up national chains Neiman Marcus, Williams-Sonoma, and Crate & Barrel for its launch."
- ZDNN
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Wedding-Gift Site Works Online and Off |
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June 9, 1999
"Unlike competitors that work directly with manufacturers and wholesalers, WeddingChannel.com is positioning itself as an extension of retailers' existing wedding-gift services, by some estimates a $17 billion annual market."
- The Industry Standard
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Retailers sign deal with a wedding registry |
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June 9, 1999
"Retailers Crate & Barrel, Neiman Marcus Group and Williams-Sonoma have joined a new Internet wedding gift site, making the site one of the largest in the U.S."
- Excite News
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Celebrity Weddings: Worldwide wed |
February 1998
"How to avoid getting four cocktail shakers? Register on the Internet.
WeddingChannel.com - The twist: You register in the standard way at stores of your choice; D&J puts your selections into an online registry too. It will also advise on what to register for, and organize details like the wedding timetable and directions for guests."
- InStyle magazine |
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| Here Comes the Bride, Clicking a Mouse |
January 14, 1999
"...WeddingChannel.com, named after O. Henry's 'The Gift of the Magi,' is backed by the powerful Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
The fledgling online registries face a major wild card: big traditional retailers... But Ken Cassar, an analyst with Jupiter Communications, says retailers 'may be best served sucking it up and participating in a multiple-merchant' scenario."
- The Wall Street Journal |
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December 11, 1998
"Tear up those shopping lists - what any startup wants for Christmas is a CEO hand-picked by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. That's the early present KP partner Doug Mackenzie gave to WeddingChannel.com, a small startup being incubated in the San Francisco office of Viant, a Boston-based Internet company... Kleiner's present? Rebecca Patton of E*Trade."
- Red Herring Online |
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