Coremetrics Continues to Dominate the
Internet Retailer Top 400 in 2005
Coremetrics Serves More Top-400 Internet Retailers
Than Any Other Vendor for Third Consecutive Year
San Mateo, Calif. July 8, 2005 Coremetrics™, the leading provider of hosted Web analytics and precision marketing solutions, today announced that the company services more Internet Retailer Best of the Web Top 400 retailing Web sites than any other Web analytics vendor. Retail customers in every categoryincluding 1-800-Flowers.com, Circuit City Stores, Eddie Bauer, Office Depot, QVC, and Williams-Sonomause Coremetrics to determine marketing strategy, manage site investments, and achieve actionable results based on comprehensive analysis of online customer and visitor behavior. Coremetrics has been the top Web analytics vendor since the list was initially compiled in 2003.
With more than five years of experience delivering successful implementation to Top 400 retailers, Coremetrics is the only Web analytics vendor to offer a solution tailored specifically for the online retail market. Coremetrics also delivers the most comprehensive set of best practices metrics for retailers, the industry's most robust benchmarketing services, as well as partnerships with more than 30 leading marketing vendors in email marketing, rich media, surveys, and testing services. To date, Coremetrics has delivered more than $225 million in documented value to its client base.
"The top online retailers have confidence in Coremetrics' hosted precision marketing solutions, which were built with the needs of Web retailers in mind," said Joe Davis, president and CEO of Coremetrics. "Our expertise in retail has secured our position as market leader in Web analytics for the retail market, and we are pleased that Internet Retailer has recognized many of our clients as the best in their market. Coremetrics will continue to work closely with our clients as they use our solutions to increase revenue and profits from the Web channel."
Internet Retailer first published a list of the most successful Web-based retailers in 2003, ranking the top 300 sites by revenues. This year's list was expanded to include the top 400 retailers based on their online retail sales volume in 2004. Statistics compiled for the Internet Retailer Top 400 Guide found that the top 400 retailers in 2004 generated combined Web sales of more than $51 billion and accounted for 58.3% of all U.S. Internet sales .
About Internet Retailer
Published by Chicago-based Vertical Web Media LLC, Internet Retailer is a monthly national business magazine and Web site serving the retailing community. The magazine and Web site focus on the Internet's vital role in a wide array of retailing activities, including Web merchandising, supply chain management, and multichannel integration. The magazine's 34,000 subscribers are senior executives primarily from retail chains, independent stores, and catalogs. Internet Retailer's circulation represents the largest multichannel readership base of any retailing magazine. The magazine also publishes the most widely read email newsletter in retailing, IRNewsLink, which is distributed twice weekly to 28,000 opt-in subscribers.
About Coremetrics
Coremetrics is the leading provider of hosted Web analytics and precision marketing solutions. The company's flagship product, Coremetrics 2005, is the industry's only Web analytics platform that captures and stores all customer and visitor clickstream activity to build LIVE (Lifetime Individual Visitor Experience) Profiles that serve as the foundation for all successful e-business initiatives. With Coremetrics 2005, online marketers, IT managers, and eCommerce executives are able to attract and convert high-value visitors, increase customer lifetime value, and create a multichannel view of customer behavior. Coremetrics services over 400 brands including Bank of America, Columbia House, CompUSA, Eddie Bauer, Motorola, The Weather Channel, Victoria's Secret, and Williams-Sonoma. Coremetrics is privately held with funding from Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners, and is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices across the U.S. and in London. To learn more about Coremetrics, visit www.coremetrics.com or call 877-721-CORE.
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