Press Release
New ChoiceWorld.com Shopping Mall Offers e-Shoppers a Quicker Route to Products Online
Over 200 Merchandise Categories Offer Extensive Product Variety
Calgary, Alberta -- November 20, 2000 -- Online
searching and shopping for products just got easier with the launch of
ChoiceWorld.com. The site's straightforward design simplifies the search
task and lets visitors find the products they want with fewer clicks. This
online shopping mall offers large brand merchants as well as smaller, more
exclusive retailers.
"Our primary goal was to make it easier and more enjoyable for our
customers to connect to the products they want to buy," says David
Gallagher, president and CEO of QCommerce, Inc., owner of ChoiceWorld.com.
"Over the coming months, we will continue to add and enhance our site's
features to offer shoppers a highly customized environment with useful
shopping tools."
An expanded product category listing, detailed site descriptors as well as
the product oriented search engine makes shopping more convenient. Most
products on the Web site can be reached in fewer than three clicks. The
site features an extensive assortment of merchants in over 200 different
categories, including large brand names such as the Disney Store, OshKosh
B'Gosh, and Esprit. Boutique merchants offer an eclectic array of
specialty products. BedHead offers high quality women's sleepwear, which
has become a favorite with celebrities and Hollywood alike, having been
featured in numerous television shows such as Friends and Will and Grace.
ChoiceWorld's Victorian Rocking Horse Co. sells hand carved wooden rocking
horses that make a one-of-a-kind gift. At the Great Scot Shop, clan
tartans and crests, custom-made kilts and Celtic jewelry can be found,
without making a trip to Scotland.
For Christmas, ChoiceWorld.com is making holiday shopping simple. The home
page provides 10 great gift suggestions, and with one click, shoppers are
directly linked to the merchant listings. The site also highlights holiday
specials, great deals and a Shoppers Resources Center that provides tips
on shopping online. Another new site feature, myReminder, will be added
within the next two weeks, where registered ChoiceWorld.com shoppers can
sign up and receive email reminder service for birthdays, holidays and
other special occasions.
New visitors to ChoiceWorld.com can enter the Stocking Full of Cash
giveaway, where a $1,000 cash prize will be given away weekly, until
December 18. Shoppers can enter to win as often as they wish and a new
entry is provided with every visit to a new merchant.
ChoiceWorld.com is powered by QCommerce, Inc., a leading e-commerce
solutions company.
About QCommerce Inc.:
In 1999 QSound Labs, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSND) formed QCommerce Inc. a wholly
owned subsidiary, to leverage its extensive Internet marketing expertise
to provide complete e-commerce solutions to small and medium sized
businesses. Through a series of strategic partnerships and acquisitions
the Company has established itself as the "Complete Internet Retailing
Resource", offering a comprehensive portfolio of e-business tools and
marketing solutions.
For further media information including background material, and Christmas
gift ideas on ChoiceWorld.com, visit the media section of our web site at
www.choiceworld.com/mediaroom.asp
For further media information on QCommerce, visit our web site at
www.qcommerce.com.
This release contains
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities
Litigation Act of 1995 concerning, among other things, the anticipated
introduction of new e-commerce products and services by the Company's
subsidiary QCommerce Inc. Investors are cautioned that such
forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which could
cause actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or
industry results to differ materially from those reflected in the
forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are
not limited to, risks associated with the carrying out of business plans
and strategies, including availability of funds to do so timely and cost
effectively, acceptance by merchants and consumers of the new products and
services, dependence on intellectual property, uncertainties relating to
product development and commercial introduction, rapid technological
change and competition, continued growth of the Internet, general business
and economic conditions and other risks which are detailed from time to
time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements are based on the current
expectations, projections and opinions of the Company's management, and
the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the results of
any revisions to such forward-looking statements which may be made, for
example to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.