MONTEREY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SHOP.COM (www.shop.com), the ecommerce multi-merchant marketplace with OneCart™ convenience, today announced that it has introduced an additional 74 of its merchant partner stores to Quixtar’s Independent Business Owners (IBOs). As the only Quixtar marketplace partner, SHOP.COM offers its merchant stores direct access to Quixtar’s highly-motivated IBOs.

SHOP.COM maintains a partner marketplace for Quixtar that now consists of nearly 650 merchant stores providing IBOs with all the same features and functionality found on SHOP.COM. The Quixtar partnership is part of SHOP.COM’s affinity partner marketing strategy that enhances leading loyalty programs with SHOP.COM’s OneCart convenience and deep merchant relationships.

“SHOP.COM has been a valued partner of ours for eight years,” said Jim Payne, Managing Director of Quixtar. “Quixtar IBOs have generated more than $500 million in sales for our Partner Stores since we launched in 1999. Their hard work combined with the quality shopping experience provided by merchants like SHOP.COM is what makes our Partner Store program so successful. The recent expansion of the SHOP.COM marketplace makes it an even more appealing Partner Store for Quixtar IBOs.”

“Strategic partnerships with affinity groups allow us to promote our merchants to an even broader and, unquestionably, more loyal group of shoppers on the Internet. Dedicated Quixtar IBOs are great partners for us and our merchants,” said Bruce Sellers, president of SHOP.COM. “As we make more merchants available to Quixtar IBOs, their enthusiasm for the breadth of products and brands naturally increases and they shop even more often. This creates a ‘rising-tide-lifts-all-boats’ ripple effect where supply actually stimulates demand — a tremendous benefit for all our merchants.”

The additional SHOP.COM stores to be introduced in the partner marketplace include such retailers as Casual Male, Diamond.com, Ice.com, Leap & Bounds, OneStepAhead, BabyPhat, and Potpourri Online Gift Catalog, among others.

About Quixtar

Quixtar Inc. offers a business opportunity that allows people to have a business of their own based on retailing products and sharing the opportunity with others who will do the same. Quixtar supports Independent Business Owners (IBOs) with a proven compensation plan, portfolios of quality products in health, beauty, and other consumer categories, plus the merchandising materials, training, and education they need to be successful. IBOs also are supported by communities of those who have succeeded in Quixtar businesses before them.

Since 1999, Quixtar IBOs have generated $6.8 billion in sales through Quixtar.com, plus more than $500 million for Quixtar Partner Stores. These sales have earned IBOs more than $2.2 billion in bonuses through the QUIXTAR® Independent Business Owner Compensation Plan plus other incentives. Their efforts have propelled Quixtar to be ranked the #1 online Health & Beauty retailer based on sales, and 22nd among all e-commerce sites, according to Internet Retailer magazine.

A subsidiary of Alticor Inc., Quixtar supports independent businesses in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, and various trust territories and independent island nations in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans and Caribbean Sea.

About SHOP.COM

SHOP.COM is the destination online marketplace designed to help consumers more conveniently and efficiently shop on the web. SHOP.COM organizes millions of products from more than a thousand merchants in a single location, allowing consumers to shop across them all – start to finish – with OneCart™ and one personal password-protected account. OneCart ™ is SHOP.COM’s unique, proprietary patented solution that fully integrates data feeds from all SHOP.COM merchant partners to allow a single check-out experience. SHOP.COM is a privately-held company headquartered in Monterey, Calif. For more information, visit the company’s website at www.SHOP.COM.

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BOTHELL, WA–(Marketwire - June 5, 2007) - HaloSource, Inc., an antimicrobial and clean technology solutions company that focuses on clean water and infection control products, has hired Andrew Clews as vice president of marketing and business development. Clews will lead the company’s global marketing and branding strategies, product management, public relations, partner alliances and the commercialization of the company’s clean water and infection control products. Clews’ primary focus will be growing HaloSource’s global drinking water products business.

Clews was previously senior manager of global brands for Alticor Inc., parent company of several businesses including worldwide direct selling giant, Amway Corporation. He held responsibility for the global business line leadership of the home products division, encompassing the company’s water and air treatment business with revenues exceeding $1 billion. A native New Zealander, Clews has held a variety of other regional and global roles with Alticor during the past 15 years and has worked extensively in Asia, Australasia and North America. Prior to joining Alticor, Clews was with Vantage Publishing in Auckland, New Zealand.

“Andrew has significant experience in multicultural environments and successfully driving the development of new brands into the global marketplace,” said John Kaestle, HaloSource president and CEO. “We’re pleased to have him on our team as we accelerate efforts to provide clean, safe drinking water in countries where contaminated water is a major health concern.”

Clews holds a BA in political science from the University of Auckland, in addition to post-graduate studies in international business and marketing.

About HaloSource

HaloSource antimicrobial and clean technology solutions reliably and effectively provide clean water and control germs. HaloSource offers the most effective, tested and proven solutions in the product categories of clean water and infection control. HaloSource brands include HaloPure water purification products that kill disease-causing bacteria and remove impurities for safe, pure drinking water, HaloShield textile and surface coating solutions that harness the antimicrobial power of chlorine, SeaKlear water treatments to maintain clean and clear water in pools and spas, and StormKlear natural erosion and sediment control for treating and decontaminating storm and waste water. More information is available at www.halosource.com.

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