Honeywell and Vicinity Direct Automotive Do-It-Yourselfers to Nearest Fram, Prestone and Autolite Retailers
4 April 2000
Honeywell and Vicinity Direct Automotive Do-It-Yourselfers to Nearest Fram, Prestone and Autolite Retailers
PALO ALTO, Calif.--April 4, 2000--with Maps, Driving Directions and Dealer Locations
Vicinity Corp. , a leading provider of Internet-based marketing infrastructure services, Tuesday announced that it will provide Business Finder(TM) locator service to Honeywell's Consumer Products Group brand sites, including Fram (www.fram.com), Prestone (www.prestone.com) and Autolite (www.autolite.com).
The technology will help consumers locate the nearest dealer, and obtain maps and driving directions.
"The addition of the Vicinity Business Finder locator service to the current brand Web sites will benefit consumers looking for Fram, Prestone and Autolite brand products and the retailers that sell them," said Emerick Woods, president and chief executive officer of Vicinity Corp. "Honeywell recognized our success with more than 300 other Global 2000 brands."
Vicinity's Business Finder provides corporations with online search capabilities to help direct Web customers to store locations and the ability to provide point-to-point driving directions. Business Finder gives customers the ability to search for locations by address, cross street, city, state or zip code.
"We recognized Vicinity clients' successes with Business Finder and its strength in driving consumers to our customers," said Jon Nehlsen, eBusiness analyst for Honeywell's Consumer Products Group.
In addition to the United States and Canada, Vicinity's business locator services are also available in Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden, Spain and the United Kingdom. Vicinity's Internet-based services offer multinational companies the ability to improve their online marketing efforts by integrating both online and offline services.
About Vicinity Corp.
Vicinity Corp. is a leading provider of Internet-based marketing infrastructure services for brand-name Global 2000 companies. The company's clicks-and-mortar solutions, available in 14 countries and in 10 languages, enable its more than 300 clients to direct consumers searching for a specific product or service to the nearest brick-and-mortar store that carries that product or service. Vicinity's customers include FedEx, Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, Hilton Hotels Corp., Marriott, McDonald's, NEC, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Starwood Hotels, Taco Bell, Toyota, Levi Strauss & Co. and UPS. Its suite of private-label and co-branded content and services -- available via the Internet, cellular phones, WAP phones, wireless devices and landline telephones -- includes Business Finder(SM), Telephone Business Finder(SM), Wireless Business Finder(SM), BrandFinder(SM), SiteMaker(SM), MailMaker(SM), MapBlast!(R) Mapping Services, and Business Directory.
Publicly traded on Nasdaq under the symbol VCNT, Vicinity's investors include CMGI . Vicinity's strategic alliances include Inktomi , Palm Computing and it is a member of the Phone.com Alliance Program. Vicinity was established in 1995, has headquarters in Palo Alto, and has an office in Lebanon, N.H.
Vicinity(R) is a registered trademark of Vicinity Corp.
