RITZ INTERACTIVE NAMED TO INTERNET RETAILER’S 2008
TOP 500
IRVINE,
Calif., May 13, 2008, – Ritz Interactive, Inc.,
the e-commerce network that includes RitzCamera.com, WolfCamera.com,
BoatersWorld.com and other leading online shopping sites has been
ranked number 114 in Internet Retailer’s 2008 Top 500 and
number 17 in Internet Retailer’s Computers / Electronics
Category, based on 2007 web sales.
Internet
Retailer's definitive ranking and analysis of America's 500 largest
e-retailers is based on annual 2007 Internet sales, researched
by Internet Retailer and confirmed by retailers. This report includes
company financial, operational and performance data, as well as
vendors in 18 key categories.
According
to Ritz Interactive President and CEO Fred H. Lerner, it is no
accident the Ritz Interactive network consistently rates in the
top 25% of online retailers. “From the very start, we have
been committed to providing our customers with a world-class online
shopping experience,” said Lerner. “That means consistently
delivering on our promises – all the way through the selection,
purchasing and fulfillment processes. Sure we benefit from our
well-known, trusted brands, but it’s the ease of use, savings,
and superior service that keeps customers coming back to our sites,”
Lerner added.
Internet
Retailer editor in chief, Kurt Peters added, “Ritz Interactive
has done a great job of identifying niche markets then using the
Internet to develop a business that would be much more difficult
to execute with an offline strategy”.
Ritz
Interactive, launched in April of 1999, has evolved into one of
the Web’s most successful retailers, offering online shoppers
an amazing array of products and accessories, plus the added benefits
of no sales tax and free shipping on most photo, consumer electronics,
marine, boating and fishing items. In addition to its flagship
Web properties RitzCamera.com (www.RitzCamera.com), WolfCamera.com
(www.WolfCamera.com) and BoatersWorld.com (www.BoatersWorld.com),
the Ritz Interactive network includes such popular sites as CameraWorld.com
(www.CameraWorld.com), PhotoAlley.com (www.PhotoAlley.com), eAngler.com
(www.eAngler.com), OuterBanksOutfitters.com (www.OuterBanksOutfitters.com),
and ShopAtShark.com (www.ShopAtShark.com).
About
Ritz Interactive, Inc.
Ritz Interactive is an award-winning, specialty online retailer
and e-commerce service provider that operates a network of websites
offering high quality, branded lifestyle products. Since its inception
in Irvine, California in 1999, the company has become a leader
in providing a full selection of photographic and consumer electronics
products as well as a wide range of marine, boating and fishing
products, at competitive prices for online shoppers. Ritz Interactive’s
leading photo-specialty and consumer electronics e-commerce websites
are RitzCamera.com and WolfCamera.com, while the company’s
leading marine e-commerce website is BoatersWorld.com. Each of
the individually branded and marketed websites offers a broad
and deep selection of competitively priced products and brings
an established brick-and-mortar reputation to the company’s
e-commerce platform.
About
Internet Retailer
Published
by Chicago-based Vertical Web Media LLC, Internet Retailer is
a monthly national business magazine, web site conference and
directory that serve the retailing community. The Internet Retailer
family of products focuses on the Internet's vital role in a wide
array of retailing activities, including web merchandising, supply
chain management and multi-channel integration. Its 42,000+ subscribers
are senior executives primarily from retail chains, independent
stores, catalogs, virtual merchants and brand name manufacturers.
Internet Retailer's circulation represents the largest multi-channel
readership base of any retailing magazine. The magazine also publishes
the most widely read e-mail newsletter in retailing, IRNewsLink,
which is distributed four times weekly to 37,000 opt-in subscribers,
operates the largest retailing information web site, InternetRetailer.com,
sponsors the largest conference in the e-retailing industry as
well as the annual Web Design conference and publishes an annual
ranking of the 500 largest web sites.
Contact:
Andre Brysha, Ritz Interactive, Inc.
Tel: 949-442-0205
Fax: 949-442-0210
E-Mail: brysha@ritzinteractive.com