“[Thanks to] Bold New World for their outstanding work in programming and production for this site, and for meeting Harmony Gold's particular requirements.”
— Robotech.com (Harmony Gold)
Bold New World to Build J. G. Brown & Co Web Site
LOS ANGELES, July 16, 2001 - Bold New World, LLC (BNW) announced today that it signed a deal with J. Gregory Brown & Company, Incorporated to build the JGBrown.com Web site.
"We're proud that J. Gregory Brown has entrusted its Web presence to BNW," said Michael B. Keegan, CEO. "Beyond our qualifications as a Web technology and design company, BNW and J. G. Brown share a corporate philosophy of building long-term relationships with our clients."
J. Gregory Brown is one of the most highly respected, independent brokerage firms in the nation, whose mission is to provide their clients optimum risk management and insurance solutions through innovative proprietary programs that add measurable value to their organizations.
Bold New World is an enterprise software company specializing in the development of Web Content Management solutions. Its flagship product, Mercury, is used by small and medium-sized companies and non-profit organizations to streamline their online content, community and commerce operations. The company also provides expertise in interface design and site integration for customized solutions using the Mercury platform.
California Funeral Directors Association Endorses PLAN4ever
PLAN4ever.com, the Internet's leading commerce and information portal providing Technology and Applications Service Solutions for the death care industry, (www.PLAN4ever.com), announced today that it has received the endorsement of the California Funeral Directors Association (www.CAFDA.org). PLAN4ever will also be providing Internet development and strategy services for the CFDA's Web site as well as providing access to its National Funeral Home Affiliate program to all CFDA members.
"The CFDA views the Internet as a critical tool for our members in conducting their businesses as well as providing valuable services to the consumer," said Les Peters, CFDA President. "With PLAN4ever, we are able to expand the current services provided on our own Web site as well as provide our members with fully integrated online commerce solutions, extensive marketing support, and technology that provides unique tools to assist their clients with funeral planning and condolence issues."
Members of CFDA will be able to join PLAN4ever's National Funeral Home Affiliate program which provides free turn-key Internet solutions for funeral homes including Web site design and development, Web site hosting, technical support, and comprehensive marketing and promotional support. Affiliates may also carry products and services on their individual Web sites from PLAN4ever's extensive online mall. These products and services include flowers, sympathy cards, memorial donations, travel services, legal documents, funeral financing packages, and online obituaries.
"We are extremely pleased to receive this endorsement and strategic partnership opportunity from the California Funeral Directors Association. Since our launch last year, we have worked closely with funeral service providers to develop a program that meets their needs. Our program offers extensive marketing support to attract new consumers, including our exclusive banner advertising utilizing keywords such as 'funeral' and 'obituary' on major search engines such as AOL and Yahoo. It also provides beautifully designed e-commerce Web sites and the ability to generate new streams of revenue with no up-front costs," said Stuart Miller, CEO of PLAN4ever.
In addition to membership in PLAN4ever's affiliate program, CFDA members will receive special Internet and technology training at no cost. Members will also be able to access important member information through CFDA's enhanced Web site being produced by PLAN4ever.com.
"Over the next several months, we will be rolling out many new features on our Web site to allow our membership to receive a variety of information and services previously not available," said Mike Wick, CFDA Director and Chairman of the Web Site Task Force Committee. "By working with PLAN4ever, we will be able to continue to grow our services and provide additional support for our members."
About PLAN4ever.com
PLAN4ever.com (www.PLAN4ever.com) is the leading commerce and information portal providing Internet and Applications Service Solutions for the death care industry. Based in Los Angeles, PLAN4ever offers a full-range of end-of-life focused products, services, information and technology which provide funeral homes, cemeteries, and related businesses with turnkey technology and marketing solutions including e-commerce enabled Web sites. PLAN4ever also offers a full-range of consumer products and services including sympathy flowers, online obituaries, urns, legal documents, and a mortuary locator search engine. Launched online in April, 1999, PLAN4ever is a project of Bold New World, a leading Internet development and investment firm based in Los Angeles.
About California Funeral Directors Association
The California Funeral Directors Association (CFDA) is comprised of approximately 450 members throughout California - funeral homes and companies serving the funeral profession. Since 1903 CFDA has provided continuous professional development and enhanced the economic viability of member funeral service practitioners in order to provide services as desired by consumers. CFDA has earned respect for its professional service to its members, for its effective legislative advocacy within California's highly political climate, and for creating a rich variety of resources to assist its members in their delivery of comprehensive employment benefits to employees and compassionate service to clients.
Bold New World Creates Official Robotech.com Fan Site
Bold New World, LLC (www.BNW.com), a media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions, announced today that it has launched Harmony Gold's official Robotech.com Web site.
Eagerly anticipated by fans in over 100 countries, the site captured the attention of anime enthusiasts long before it launched logging over 40,000 members before the site opened to the public. In the first 24 hours following the site launch, fans logged over 5,000 postings on the various bulletin boards and began uploading art and fiction about the popular show almost immediately. Current traffic ranges between 20,000-40,000 unique visitors per day.
Looking for new and different ways to engage the Robotech community, Bold New World and Harmony Gold jointly developed an extensive strategy encouraging Robotech.com members to contribute content (original art and fiction) to the site and earn rewards in the form of points and rankings for their contributions. Additionally, fan participation is further encouraged through the creation of Robotech forums (bulletin boards), onsite polls and trivia games enabling fans to test their knowledge about Robotech and its roster of characters. Member-created "fan pages" allow members to share information about themselves and their interests with the community.
In a means to implement the strategy, Bold New World built an extensive set of administrative tools that allow the Robotech staff to manage member accounts and administer the database-driven content delivery system for the site. With a few simple clicks, administrative users can enter images and multi-media items for the galleries, content for the news and information areas, and questions for the poll and trivia games.
An excited fan posted his feedback in the Forums: "Finally, a one stop shop for all things Robotech! The point system is just about the coolest interactive feature I've ever come across in a web site ... I applaud you on the incredible work on this site and look forward to the new age of Robotech!"
About Bold New World
Bold New World is a new media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions. Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World provides a variety of services including identity and interface design, business and marketing strategies, financial planning and analysis, content and vendor management tools, personalized community technologies and e-commerce solutions. Bold New World also invests start-up capital for innovative ideas through its $30 million cash and equity fund. Bold New World's management team includes former executives from some of the most successful Internet and entertainment companies including CNET, E! Online, GeoCities, Disney, DreamWorks and The Los Angeles Times.
About Harmony Gold, Inc.
Formed in 1983, Harmony Gold is a leading production, acquisition and distribution company of quality international television programming, producing some of the most classic and history-making programs in the industry. Harmony Gold is a division of The Harmony Gold Companies, whose interests range from theatre management, real estate and finance to film and television production.
Bold New World Develops Inner-City Filmmakers Web Site
Bold New World, LLC (www.BNW.com), announced today that they have completed work on the Web site for the Inner-City Filmmakers organization.
Inner-City Filmmakers came to Bold New World with a desire to have a Web presence and make applying to their free education program easier for students and educators. In addition, ICF hopes to bolster their fundraising efforts and provide additional avenues for getting volunteers involved. Bold New World developed a site that can be navigated both by the type of information being sought as well as the type of user. This will maximize the marketing efforts and allows users to go directly to the most pertinent information on the site.
"We are very excited about this Web site and are proud to support non-profit organizations such as Inner-City Filmmakers, who are aligned with our vision of using technology to truly make a difference," stated Jim Thompson, Executive Producer of Bold New World. Bold New World selects well-deserving organizations to receive pro-bono services as part of its philosophy to give back to the community.
ICF has professionally trained and successfully placed over 50% of its graduates in paying entry-level jobs at film studios and production companies. Employers and supervisors have praised the students' dedication, which has resulted in advanced career opportunities and memberships in the Motion Picture Editors Guild, Cinematographers Guild and the Studios Electricians Union. Over 72% of ICF graduates have continued on to higher education with scholarships to UCLA, UCSB, USC, and UC Berkeley, while continuing to be involved with the ICF Program.
"The Bold New World name says it all," said Fred Heinrich & Stephania Lipner, Founders of Inner-City Filmmakers. "Thanks to Jim (Thompson) and the BNW team our Web site will open up new worlds of opportunities for inner city youth. We could not have done it without your help."
About Bold New World
Bold New World is a new media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions. Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World provides a variety of services including identity and interface design, business and marketing strategies, financial planning and analysis, content and vendor management tools, personalized community technologies and e-commerce solutions. Bold New World also invests start-up capital for innovative ideas through its $30 million cash and equity fund. Bold New World's management team includes former executives from some of the most successful Internet and entertainment companies including CNET, E! Online, GeoCities, Disney, DreamWorks, and The Los Angeles Times.
About Inner-City Filmmakers
Inner-City Filmmakers was created in 1993 as a non-profit organization dedicated to creating lasting positive change in the lives of inner-city youth. Their Mission is to open doors to opportunities by providing free year-round professional training, mentoring, and paid entry-level jobs for low-income yet capable high school seniors and recent graduates to gain a working knowledge of the motion picture and television industries.
BNW Develops Web Site for USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Bold New World, LLC (www.BNW.com), announced today that they have completed work on the Web site for the USC Annenberg Center for Communication.
The USC Annenberg Center for Communication is an innovative facility that supports advanced research into the practical problems presented through the convergence of today's content and tomorrow's technology. The Center wanted a fast-forward design, a user-friendly interface and a robust "behind-the-scenes" technical base to drive the tracking systems needed to manage the Center's activities.
Bold New World started by designing a new type-treatment for the Center and followed with an overall look-and-feel that incorporated the high-tech goals of the Center with the distinguished nature of its parent institution. For the internal features, Bold New World performed an extensive customization of their Content Management System. This included development of several relational databases intricately linking together the Center's four main content categories: News, Contacts, Projects, and Events. Additional tools for uploading photos and multimedia as well as a tool for rotating featured items on the home page will ensure the Annenberg Center's content stays fresh and current. Lastly, Bold New World designed an introduction using Flash animation to provide an interesting gateway to the Annenberg.edu site experience.
In addition, private "Intranet" features were created, allowing Annenberg Center staff and project personnel internal access to numerous resources including: grant status tracking, Web-based contact databases, editing tools for the Web site's public information and online forms to automate many of the Center's administrative duties via the Web.
About the USC Annenberg Center for Communication
Created in 1993 through a grant from Ambassador William H. Annenberg to the University of Southern California, the USC Annenberg Center for Communication supports active research that addresses practical problems in the convergence of content and digital technology. Directed by a team of respected leaders from arts and entertainment as well as science and technology who embrace the cross-disciplinary ideas of its projects, the Center identifies and explores ways in which communication technology affects education, law, science, engineering, healthcare, arts, entertainment and politics.
About Bold New World
Bold New World is a new media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions. Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World provides a variety of services including identity and interface design, business and marketing strategies, financial planning and analysis, content and vendor management tools, personalized community technologies and e-commerce solutions. Bold New World also invests start-up capital for innovative ideas through its $30 million cash and equity fund. Bold New World's management team includes former executives from some of the most successful Internet and entertainment companies including CNET, E! Online, GeoCities, Disney, DreamWorks, and The Los Angeles Times.
Bold New World Develops Award-Winning Site for Online Health Network
Bold New World, LLC (www.BNW.com), announced today that it's site development project for 4Therapy.com, won top honors at the medical industry's leading forum and tradeshow this week, receiving the eHealthCareWorld gold award for Best Use of the Internet Medium.
Early this year, 4Therapy.com came to Bold New World to develop the premiere online destination for mental health information to serve both the consumer and the professional therapist. Bold New World designed and built both the Consumer and Professional 4therapy.com sites which are built upon a highly customized suite of site administration tools, which include full site content, community and commerce management. Additionally, Bold New World built a set of custom features for 4therapy.com, including the "Therapist Locator" and a "Self Assessment" testing tool - both of which aid the consumer in finding the correct professional help for their individual needs.
"This is a wonderful public acknowledgment of 4therapy's hard work and success," said Howard A. Brown, 4therapy's founder and CEO. "We launched 4therapy.com a few short months ago with the dream of creating a partnership of mental health professionals who recognize the immense potential for good of harnessing the Internet as a tool to build their practices and help more people in need. This prestigious award speaks to their vision."
Leading healthcare sites from around the world annually compete for eHealthCareWorld awards, which recognize and promote groundbreaking achievement in eHealth through the creation and execution of exceptional Web sites. Sites are judged upon numerous criteria, including content, design, structure, navigation, performance and interactivity.
Now in its sixth month of operation, 4therapy.com has already been recognized as a top mental health Web site by Gomez Advisors and About.com.
In November alone, the Therapist Locator helped more than 2,700 people find a therapist ideally suited to their needs. In addition, 4therapy provided information, online and offline support links, self-assessment exams, expert-moderated forums and private chat opportunities to tens of thousands more.
"We are honored and excited to have one of our sites win such a prestigious award particularly in the field of site functionality, ease of navigation and design," said Michael B. Keegan, CEO of Bold New World. "We congratulate and thank our partners at 4Therapy for allowing us to craft their vision into a site that is truly providing invaluable services to mental healthcare workers worldwide."
About Bold New World
Bold New World is a new media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions. Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World provides a variety of services including identity and interface design, business and marketing strategies, financial planning and analysis, content and vendor management tools, personalized community technologies and e-commerce solutions. Bold New World also invests start-up capital for innovative ideas through its $30 million cash and equity fund. Bold New World's management team includes former executives from some of the most successful Internet and entertainment companies including CNET, E! Online, GeoCities, Disney, DreamWorks, and The Los Angeles Times.
About 4therapy.com
4therapy.com is a subscription-based Web site that provides mental-health professionals with administrative support and other valuable services, while offering consumers customized referrals and free access to confidential chat rooms, self-assessment tests, expert-moderated forums and well-researched articles and reports on mental-health issues.
Bold New World Develops Award-Winning Extranet for Gateway Country Stores
Bold New World, LLC (www.BNW.com), announced today that one of its projects, the Gateway Country Connection Extranet, has received a prestigious award for excellence. Stoorza Communications, manager of the Gateway Country Connection, received the Edward L. Bernays Mark of Excellence Award for Web Sites, Internal-Intranet at a ceremony held in San Diego this past Thursday.
Earlier this year, Stoorza Communications came to Bold New World with a unique idea for an extranet. Instead of using one large agency to handle the PR for Gateway Country Stores, Gateway decided to use an innovative grassroots approach and hired 20 boutique agencies in key markets throughout the country to handle their PR locally. Stoorza Communications, as the lead agency and manager of this project, needed one location to meet and share information, as well as manage the campaign's uniformity. In collaboration with Stoorza, Bold New World built an extranet that allows password access to each of their affiliates throughout the country and contains a variety of tools to help them communicate and build strategies together.
"We are very pleased that Stoorza Communications was selected for this well-deserved award," said Hutt Bush, President of Bold New World, LLC. "We have had such a positive work experience together that we were fortunate enough for them to recommend us for a similar project for the European Gateway offices."
The annual Edward L. Bernays Mark of Excellence Awards competition, produced by the San Diego Chapter Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), is an opportunity to be recognized for accomplishments in public relations. Named for the man considered to be the founder of modern public relations, the competition is meant to showcase examples of the highest standards in the public relations field.
The ceremony helps fund the association's scholarship program as well as the operating costs of the San Diego chapter of PRSA, an organization dedicated to advancing the art and science of public relations in the public interest.
About Bold New World
Bold New World is a new media consulting and design firm providing full-service Web business solutions. Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World provides a variety of services including identity and interface design, business and marketing strategies, financial planning and analysis, content and vendor management tools, personalized community technologies and e-commerce solutions. Bold New World also invests start-up capital for innovative ideas through its $30 million cash and equity fund. Bold New World's management team includes former executives from some of the most successful Internet and entertainment companies including CNET, E! Online, GeoCities, Disney, DreamWorks, and The Los Angeles Times.
PLAN4ever.com Announces Partnership with Funeral Home Consolidator
PLAN4ever.com, the Internet's leading commerce and information portal providing Technology and Applications Service Solutions for the death care industry, (www.PLAN4ever.com), announced today that the Hamilton Group, one of the nation's largest private consolidators of funeral homes and cemeteries, has joined its National Funeral Home Affiliate program. PLAN4ever.com will build e-commerce enabled web sites for Hamilton's more than 100 funeral home and cemetery properties throughout the United States as well as provide online marketing and promotional support.
"The program that PLAN4ever has created is far and above the most comprehensive of all the other Internet solutions we explored," said Jay Kruger, Hamilton Group CEO. "With PLAN4ever, we are able to provide our funeral homes with fully integrated online commerce solutions, extensive marketing support, and technology that provides unique tools to assist our clients with funeral planning and condolence issues."
PLAN4ever's National Funeral Home Affiliate program provides a turn-key Internet solution for funeral homes including web site design and development, web site hosting, technical support, and comprehensive marketing and promotional support. Affiliates may also carry products and services on their individual web sites from PLAN4ever's extensive online mall. These products and services include flowers, sympathy cards, memorial donations, travel services, legal documents, pre-need insurance, funeral financing packages, and online obituaries.
"Since our launch last year, we have worked closely with funeral service providers to develop a program that meets their needs. Our program offers extensive marketing support to attract new consumers, including our exclusive banner advertising utilizing keywords such as "funeral" and "obituary" on major search engines including AOL and Yahoo. It also provides beautifully designed e-commerce web sites and the ability to generate new streams of revenue with no up-front costs," said Stuart Miller, CEO of PLAN4ever.
PLAN4ever will launch the first of its affiliate sites in early August. Funeral homes interested in participating in the National Funeral Home Affiliate program may apply online at www.PLAN4ever.com/affiliates or call 323.845.9130 for an application.
"We are very proud that the Hamilton Group has joined PLAN4ever's affiliate program and that its CEO, Jay Kruger, will be joining our board of directors," added Miller. "Their reputation and experience in the funeral industry adds an important element in our continued leadership as the premiere end-of-life issues destination on the Internet."
The funeral industry in the United States generates an estimated $21.6 billion in annual revenues. In addition to Hamilton Group, other major consolidators in the industry include Service Corporation International (NYSE: SRV), Loewen Group (NYSE: LOWGQ.OB), Stewart Enterprises (NYSE: STEI), Carriage Services (NYSE: CSV), and the Keystone Group.
About PLAN4ever.com
PLAN4ever.com (www.PLAN4ever.com) is the leading commerce and information portal providing Internet and Applications Service Solutions for the death care industry. Based in Los Angeles, PLAN4ever offers a full-range of end-of-life focused products, services, information and technology which provide funeral homes, cemeteries, and related businesses with turnkey technology and marketing solutions including e-commerce enabled web sites. PLAN4ever also offers a full-range of consumer products and services including sympathy flowers, online obituaries, urns, legal documents, and a mortuary locator search engine. Launched online in April, 1999, PLAN4ever is a project of Bold New World.
About the Hamilton Group
The Hamilton Group, based in San Diego, is one of the nations largest privately owned consolidators of funeral homes and cemeteries, operating more than 100 locations throughout the United States. Founded in 1993, Hamilton is committed to providing quality service, while preserving the Heritage and Integrity of each of its firms, through the establishment of a Partnership relationship with each of its affiliates. The Hamilton Group is one of the first in the funeral industry to fully embrace the innovative opportunities and benefits associated with a fully integrated online Internet strategy in the historically very traditional funeral industry.
About Bold New World
Based in Los Angeles, Bold New World (www.BNW.com) is a strategic marketing, technology and design firm providing full-service Internet development solutions. The company offers stand-alone products including identity and interface design, technology development and strategic marketing services, as well as a full-scale "inception to acquisition" incubator and investment fund to develop Internet businesses. In addition to its seasoned executives who have held senior positions with some of the leading Internet companies such as CNET, E! Online, and GeoCities, Bold New World also boasts an impressive list of investors who serve on its board of advisors including David Bohnett, Kevin Wall, Norman Lear, Judith Light, and George Takei.
Plan4ever.com Announces Exclusive Partnership with Announcementwire.com
PLAN4ever.com (www.PLAN4ever.com), the Internet's leading destination for funeral planning and end-of-life issues, today announced that it has finalized an exclusive partnership with AnnouncementWire.com to distribute obituary announcement to newspapers through the Internet. AnnouncementWire.com is a subsidiary of B-Linked, a leading provider of electronic transmission systems for publishers, with more than 200 newspapers and 2,500 advertising agencies currently using the B-Linked ad delivery system for the transmission of print advertising.
AnnouncementWire will expand B-Linked's current electronic distribution system to include personal announcements to daily newspapers and online outlets. In addition to PLAN4ever.com, AnnouncementWire currently has partnership deals in place with BabyCenter.com for birth announcements and TheKnot.com for wedding announcements.
Under the terms of the partnership, PLAN4ever.com will be the exclusive online partner for AnnouncementWire's daily obituary feeds. This program will allow funeral directors as well as consumers of PLAN4ever.com to place free online obituaries with the option of placing the obituary in newspapers throughout the country by utilizing AnnouncementWire's electronic distribution system. The AnnouncementWire distribution network will also place death announcements and memorial tribute display advertisements.
"We are pleased to be the exclusive online outlet for AnnouncementWire's obituaries," commented Stuart Miller, CEO of PLAN4ever.com. "This deal will revolutionize the way obituaries are delivered to newspapers. Not only will consumers be able to create a virtual memorial at PLAN4ever.com, but they will also be able to simultaneously distribute obituaries to a desired newspaper in any part of the country."
Obituaries posted at PLAN4ever.com are free. However, distribution to newspapers via AnnouncementWire will be a paid service. Costs will vary depending on the outlet a consumer wants to reach. Complete details regarding the price structure for AnnouncementWire distribution will be released in the coming weeks.
About PLAN4ever.com
PLAN4ever.com is leading Internet commerce and information portal dedicated exclusively to end-of-life issues.The site offers the most comprehensive array of products and services in the areas of pre-planning, funeral, condolence, and memorialization issues. PLAN4ever.com recently acquired DiscountUrns.com (www.discounturns.com), partners with leading Internet retailers, and creates its own unique products and services exclusive to the site.
PLAN4ever.com was founded in 1998 and officially launched on April 1, 1999. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. It is a joint project of BOLD NEW WORLD, an Internet Incubator and development firm, and Riggs Internet Preservation, Inc., a consortium of health care and finance professionals.
About AnnouncementWire.com
AnnouncementWire.com is the first portal designed to allow the public to submit personal and business announcements to one or more publishers, from one central site. There are nearly thirty announcement types ranging from Birth, to Engagement, Wedding, Press Releases, Club Events, and more. AnnouncementWire has partnered with many leading targeted sites to gather announcements, including BabyCenter.com, TheKnot.com, Plan4Ever.com, and others. Publishers benefit from using the service by automating the otherwise tedious task of collecting announcements.
AnnouncementWire.com is a subsidiary of B-Linked, Inc., a privately held corporation based in Chapel Hill, NC. Founded in 1994, the B-Linked, Inc. is a leading provider of transmission systems for publishers, with more than 200 newspapers and 2,500 advertising agencies currently using the B-Linked ad delivery system for the transmission of print advertising.
Plan4ever.com Finalizes Acquisition of Discounturns.com
PLAN4ever.com, the Internet's leading commerce and informational portal dedicated exclusively to death and end-of-life issues, (www.PLAN4ever.com), today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Northern Virginia-based DiscountUrns.com, the largest urn retailer and revenue producing funeral site on the Internet. Financial terms were not disclosed. As a result of the cash and stock deal, the two companies will merge to form the most comprehensive online funeral planning and product resource available on the Internet.
Russ Harman, co-founder and CEO of DiscountUrns.com, will join PLAN4ever.com as President while Charles Aughenbaugh, co-founder of DiscountUrns.com, will become Senior Vice President of Consumer Products. Both executives will move their headquarters from Chantilly, Virginia to PLAN4ever.com's Los Angeles offices.
"This acquisition of DiscountUrns.com is a significant step forward in the development of PLAN4ever.com," noted Stuart Miller, CEO of PLAN4ever.com. "With the addition of DiscountUrns' significant market share and unparalleled product roster, PLAN4ever.com will provide a unique and invaluable service to Internet users of all profiles."
"This merger is about more than funerals and funeral-related products," continued Miller. "The idea is to bring more choice to the consumer. It's always been our goal to make an inevitable fact of life easier for the families and loved-ones of the sick or departed."
DiscountUrns.com seeks to provide a non-threatening, cost-effective and no-pressure environment for the individual consumer on the Internet. Additionally, DiscountUrns.com assists small family-owned, funeral businesses to expand and become prosperous.
"DiscountUrns.com is pleased to be joining the PLAN4ever.com team," said Russ Harman, the new President of PLAN4ever.com. "With this agreement, PLAN4ever.com will become more than a destination, it will be the online destination for funeral planning, products and services.
In addition to their experience with DiscountUrns, Harmon and Aughenbaugh bring more than 27 years combined experience in the death care industry. Harmon is widely regarded as an innovator in the industry, with experience as a funeral director at the local and national levels. Prior to founding DiscountUrns.com and Northern Virginia Funeral Choices, a full-service funeral provider and crematorium, he served as an executive with Service Corporation International (NYSE: SRV), the world's largest funeral and cemetery consolidator.
About Plan4ever.com PLAN4ever.com is revolutionizing the pre-planning, funeral, condolence and memorialization industry by offering superior, comprehensive, and convenient services and products direct to the consumer via the Internet.
Through this "portal" site, consumers can find the comprehensive array of information and products needed to easily and efficiently handle pre-planning, funeral planning, condolence, and memorialization needs.
PLAN4ever.com was founded in 1998 and officially launched on April 1, 1999. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and operates as a California Limited Liability Corporation. It is project of BOLD NEW WORLD, an Internet Incubator and development firm in Los Angeles whose executives held senior positions as CNET, E! Online, and Geocities, and Riggs Internet Preservation, a consortium of healthcare, finance, and management professionals.
About DiscountUrns.com
The mission of DiscountUrns.com, Inc. is to provide unparalleled customer service while offering a large selection of quality cremation urns and other funeral merchandise direct to the public.
DiscountUrns.com continually strives to diversify its inventory by obtaining goods and services from vendors all over the world. These efforts are not only intended to provide cost-effective quality goods and services to our customers, but also to assist small, and sometimes family owned, businesses to expand and become prosperous.
Through their presence on the Internet, DiscountUrns.com offers a larger selection of cremation urns at discounted prices than many funeral homes. The online store of products and services will always be presented to customers in a non-threatening, no sales pressure setting.