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CNN/Money.com: PennySaverUSA.com
Adds National Weekly Circular Advertisements to Its Site From
ShopLocal.com
Shopping Decisions for Customers of Local Retailers Nationwide
Become Even Easier and Faster by Previewing Shopping Deals
From Circulars Online
May 1, 2006 -- PennySaverUSA.com, the Web site of the shopper
publications of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE: HHS), has entered
a relationship with ShopLocal.com, a Web
shopping service for retailers and other companies, to bring
ShopLocal.com's full suite of offerings of
national and large regional retail advertisements to its site.
This partnership brings to the PennySaverUSA.com Web site
advertisements from hundreds of retailers nationwide with
searchable listings and weekly online circulars. All areas
of the United States are served by these series of ShopLocal.com
listings.
"ShopLocal.com is committed to providing
valuable shopping information to consumers and extending the
reach of our retail partners' brands and products online,"
said Brian Hand, CEO of ShopLocal.com. "Our
partnership with a popular site like PennySaverUSA.com reinforces
that commitment and helps us continue to achieve our goals."
"While our print publications PennySaver and The Flyer
have been on the Web since 1995, our growth in local listings
online recently has expanded, both in number and geographic
coverage, as a result of recent partner agreements similar
to ShopLocal.com," said Loren Dalton,
president of PennySaverUSA.com. "Our new partnership
with ShopLocal.com, one of the Web's premier
retail aggregation sites, enhances our strategy to provide
'one stop shopping' locally online for all of our visitors
nationwide."
About ShopLocal
ShopLocal, LLC offers the Web's most comprehensive
multi-channel shopping resource for consumers and sales opportunities
site for retailers. With ShopLocal.com and
The ShopLocal Network -- made up of more
than 200 affiliate media, search and shopping sites -- consumers
have access to the only Web site with information on products
from local stores side-by-side with e-commerce options. With
ShopLocal's SmartCircular, SmartCatalog and
SmartMedia service, retailers can distribute sales and promotional
content on the site as well as through their own Web sites,
integrating both e-commerce and local, in-store promotions.
Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB),
and The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI), are partners in ShopLocal
and other joint ventures to provide consumers online products
such as CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com and Apartments.com.
About Harte-Hanks
Harte-Hanks is a worldwide direct and targeted marketing
company that provides marketing services and shopper advertising
opportunities to local, regional, national and international
consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct
Marketing improves return on its clients' marketing investment
by increasing their prospect and customer value -- a process
of "customer optimization" -- organized around five
strategic considerations: Information (data collection/management)
-- Opportunity (data access/utilization) -- Insight (data
analysis/interpretation) -- Engagement (knowledge application)
-- Interaction (program execution). Expert in integrating
this process, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing is highly skilled
at tailoring solutions for each of the vertical markets it
serves. Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner,
operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers
that are zoned into more than 1,000 separate editions with
more than 12 million circulation each week in California and
Florida. Visit the Harte-Hanks Web site at http://www.harte-hanks.com
or call (800) 456-9748.
Harte-Hanks Shoppers, a division of Harte-Hanks, Inc., is
a recognized leader in geographic and demographic target marketing
solutions. With more than 1000 unique community editions,
its PennySaver publication has circulation exceeding 10 million
every week in California (covering 78% of the state's households)
and it's the Flyer publication has circulation of nearly 3
million in Florida. Through the technology of targeted mailing,
utilizing zone-specific maps and ZIP Code surveys, advertisers
can tailor their marketing message to a particular neighborhood
or demographic group in the area of their choice. The PennySaver
provides a low-cost, efficient and targeted marketing solution
utilizing a wide variety of products such as display ads,
classified ads and flyers, delivered weekly via the U.S. Postal
Service. Visit PennySaver online at: http://www.PennySaverUSA.com.
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