MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- 02/28/08 --
Krillion (
www.krillion.com), the company
that connects ready-to-buy online shoppers with local retailers, has been
selected by TheFind Inc. (
www.TheFind.com) to power real-time, local
product-availability functionality for the product categories covered by
Krillion's extensive index of retailers. TheFind.com is a leading shopping
search engine that quickly discovers millions of lifestyle goods -- across
the fashion, home, beauty, electronics, sports and outdoor categories --
from more than 500,000 online retailers.
Last December, TheFind.com launched an intuitive local search option,
making it easy for shoppers to find which stores in their local
neighborhoods carry the products they are looking to buy. This enhancement
enabled consumers to search for specific products on TheFind.com and then
quickly determine locations and phone numbers of the nearby retailers that
carry those products. Now, with the integration of Krillion, TheFind
shoppers will also be able to check and confirm up-to-the-minute local
availability from some of the leading national retailers, especially across
the electronics category, and to also buy the product online before driving
up to the store location for pickup. This agreement gives consumers one
more reason to come to TheFind.com for online and offline shopping needs.
"For a variety of reasons and especially in a number of key product
categories, consumers prefer to search online for desired items and
subsequently pick those items up in person at a nearby store. The trend
toward researching online and purchasing offline has accelerated in recent
months with the introduction by retailers of more in-store convenience
services. Shopping search engines such as TheFind.com are perfectly suited
to provide Krillion's local product search service to consumers," said Joel
Toledano, co-founder and CEO of Krillion. "TheFind leads its category by
already making online and local shopping easy and visually compelling, and
we are delighted that they have chosen Krillion to further enhance that
experience for their
ready-to-buy consumers with real-time, local product availability
information."
"We are determined to continually deliver even more ease, access and
information to our shoppers," said Siva Kumar, CEO of TheFind Inc.
"Remaining dedicated to that ideal means that we are constantly looking for
ways to enrich the shopping experience with services that our customers
desire. Through this relationship with Krillion we are able to offer local
product availability information from leading national retailers, and can
do so with increased accuracy
-- making the jump from online search to local purchase the most convenient
it has ever been for consumers."
The evolving business and marketing strategies of top e-tailers support the
fact that consumers enjoy the ease of online search to locate, research and
price their products, and subsequently pick up their desired merchandise at
local outlets. Krillion has the most experience connecting online shoppers
with their local retailers, as the company has created the world's largest
database of retailers and products, and through its StockCheck(TM)
technology provides search engine providers and other web publishers
real-time product availability information on thousands of products across
stores nationwide.
About TheFind Inc.
TheFind Inc. (www.TheFind.com) offers the leading shopping search engine
that delivers comprehensive, authentic and visually compelling results for
products, specializing in the lifestyle goods category. From the most
popular e-commerce sites to the most unique, hard-to-find brands,
TheFind.com uniquely crawls the entire Web to find more than 200 million
products from over 500,000 stores. By using its patent-pending "product
ranking" technology, TheFind.com displays the best-selling products,
styles, brands and stores for any shopping search right on the first page
of results -- saving consumers time and money. TheFind Inc. family includes
leading fashion shopping website Glimpse (www.Glimpse.com), which
specifically caters to fashion-savvy shoppers searching for the latest
trends and hottest apparel products, and TheFindGreen
(www.TheFindGreen.com), which finds organic brands, green stores and
environmentally friendly products, all in one place. TheFind Inc. promotes
shopping that gives back to the community through its Color For A Cause
campaigns, which have included charitable beneficiaries such as The Susan
G. Komen Foundation, Doctors Without Borders and Global Green USA. TheFind
Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by leading
investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture
Partners.
About Krillion
Krillion Inc. is a premier provider of local shopping search information,
serving today's ready-to-buy consumers who research products online for
purchase from retailers in their area. Krillion's mission is to transform
the way consumers find and buy national brands by simplifying the
Web-to-store purchase process and delivering accurate and timely comparison
information on products, retailers, and stock availability through Krillion
search results and partner sites. The powerful combination of our
patent-pending Krillion Localization Engine, localized search results
covering over 10,000 products in 40,000 U.S. locations, and unique,
real-time StockCheck(TM) tool enables consumers to speed their
research-to-purchase process and take advantage of in-store pickup services
offered by many retailers near them. Through partnerships with
manufacturers, publishers and retailers, Krillion is extending its service
to become the leading provider of aggregated product, retail location, and
availability information on the Web today. Krillion was founded in February
2006 and is funded by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Visit
www.krillion.com to find the product you want to buy, near you, right now.
Krillion(TM) and Krillion Localization Engine(TM) and Krillion
StockCheck(TM) are trademarks of Krillion Inc. All other product names and
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Tim Cox
ZingPR for Krillion
Email Contact
650-369-7784
Shaila Arora
Arora PR for TheFind Inc.
Email Contact
310-749-5006
