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RITZ
INTERACTIVE
NAMED TO INTERNET RETAILER’S 2007 TOP 500 |
IRVINE,
Calif., June 19, 2007, – Ritz Interactive,
Inc., the e-commerce network that includes RitzCamera.com,
WolfCamera.com, BoatersWorld.com and other leading online-shopping
sites has been ranked number 114 in Internet Retailer’s
2007 Top 500 and number 21 in Internet Retailer’s
Computers / Electronics Category, based on 2006 web sales.
Internet
Retailer's definitive ranking and analysis of America's
500 largest e-retailers is based on annual 2006 Internet
sales, researched by Internet Retailer and confirmed by
retailers. This report includes company financial, operational
and performance data, as well as vendors in 14 key categories.
According
to Ritz Interactive President and CEO Fred H. Lerner,
it’s no accident the Ritz Interactive network consistently
rates in the top 25% of online retailers. “From
the very start, we have been committed to providing our
customers with a world-class online shopping experience,”
said Lerner. “That means consistently delivering
on our promises – all the way through the selection,
purchasing and fulfillment processes. Sure we benefit
from our well-known, trusted brands, but it’s the
ease of use, savings, and superior service that keeps
customers coming back to our sites,” Lerner added.
Internet
Retailer editor in chief, Kurt Peters added, “Ritz
Interactive has done a great job of identifying niche
markets then using the Internet to develop a business
that would be much more difficult to execute with an offline
strategy,” says Kurt Peters, editor in chief of
Internet Retailer.
Ritz
Interactive, launched in April of 1999, has evolved into
one of the Web’s most successful retailers, offering
online shoppers an amazing array of products and accessories,
plus the added benefits of no sales tax and free shipping
on most photo and marine, boating and fishing items. In
addition to its flagship Web properties RitzCamera.com
(www.RitzCamera.com), WolfCamera.com (www.WolfCamera.com)
and BoatersWorld.com (www.BoatersWorld.com), the Ritz
Interactive network includes such popular sites as CameraWorld.com
(www.CameraWorld.com), PhotoAlley.com (www.PhotoAlley.com),
eAngler.com (www.eAngler.com), OuterBanksOutfitters.com
(www.OuterBanksOutfitters.com), and ShopAtShark.com (www.ShopAtShark.com).
About
Ritz Interactive, Inc.
Ritz
Interactive is an award-winning, specialty online retailer
and e-commerce service provider that operates a network
of websites offering high quality, branded lifestyle products.
Since its inception in Irvine, California in 1999, the
company has become a leader in providing a full selection
of photographic and consumer electronics products as well
as a wide range of marine, boating and fishing products,
at competitive prices for online shoppers. Ritz Interactive’s
leading photo-specialty and consumer electronics e-commerce
websites are RitzCamera.com and WolfCamera.com, while
the company’s leading marine e-commerce website
is BoatersWorld.com. Each of the individually branded
and marketed websites offers a broad and deep selection
of competitively priced products and brings an established
brick-and-mortar reputation to the company’s e-commerce
platform.
About
Internet Retailer
Published
by Chicago-based Vertical Web Media LLC, Internet Retailer
is a monthly national business magazine, web site, conference
and directory that serve the retailing community. The
Internet Retailer family of products focuses on the Internet's
vital role in a wide array of retailing activities, including
web merchandising, supply chain management and multi-channel
integration. Its 40,000+ subscribers are senior executives
primarily from retail chains, independent stores, catalogs,
virtual merchants and brand-name manufacturers. Internet
Retailer's circulation represents the largest multi-channel
readership base of any retailing magazine. The magazine
also publishes the most widely read e-mail newsletter
in retailing, IRNewsLink, which is distributed twice-weekly
to 35,000 opt-in subscribers, operates the largest retailing
information web site, InternetRetailer.com, sponsors the
largest conference in the e-retailing industry and publishes
an annual ranking of the 500 largest web sites.
Contact:
Andre Brysha, Ritz Interactive, Inc.
Tel: 949-442-0205
Fax: 949-442-0210
E-Mail: brysha@ritzinteractive.com
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