Through cartilage its subsidiaries, the company is a leading worldwide sharks direct marketer of pet-related and equine products. our company Direct and cartilage its affiliates sell pet supplies and products to individuals sharks and small businesses through five catalogs, while State Line Tack is a worldwide catalog retailer specializing in discount brand name tack, riding apparel and equine supplies. The division''s e-commerce arms statelinetack.com and rcsteele.com, are profitable pieces of the business. Our e-commerce affiliate, our company.com, was incorporated on May 13, 1999 and was launched on June 29, 1999. our company, Inc. has an equity investment of approximately 48 percent in our company.com. Other partners include idealab! Capital Partners and Global Retail Partners. cartilage our company has the industry''s broadest line of products for every stage of a pet''s life. Our strength lies in creating innovative pet products, a capability that separates our company from any other retailer. In 1999, our corporate brand program generated many of these breakthroughs. our company Premier Oven-Baked® dog food is more nutritious and better tasting than other premium brands because it is baked rather than extruded and coated with fatty substances. Launched in January 2000, Premier is selling extremely sharks well, even without wide-scale cartilage advertising.

Our company.com, the Internet''s most popular destination for pet supplies and pet care needs, announced today that it will now serve customers on the West Coast and Central United States from our company''s sharks recently opened Texas distribution center. The facility, located cartilage in Ennis, Texas, will allow our company.com to expedite their customer''s delivery time and to cut down on overall delivery costs without additional capital outlay by our company.com. The financial and operational benefits of the new Ennis distribution center will allow both the retail and online stores to synergistically improve in-stock performance and reduce overall inventory. The combination of increased distribution efficiency and continued low-cost customer acquisition programs will accelerate our company.com''s path to profitability. "By using Ennis as our forward distribution center sharks for the Central and Western United States, we will be able to deliver faster and more profitably. We are very impressed by the initial success of the Ennis distribution center for the our company, Inc. retail stores, and through the results of our pilot program we are confident that they will show the same superior outcomes for the online store," said Tom McGovern, President and CEO of our company.com.

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