Smilebox and Sam's Club(R) Announce Partnership to Give Customers Creative Photo Sharing and Printing Options in Time
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MONTEREY, CA, Nov 12 (MARKET WIRE) --
6Sight Conference -- Smilebox Inc., a leading photo services company, and
Sam's Club announced today they have teamed up to give customers of both
companies a more creative, personal and affordable way of preserving and
sharing memories. Starting this week, Sam's Club members nationwide will
be able to select from more than 900 Smilebox designs and order prints of
their Smilebox creations from the comfort of their homes. They will be
able to pick up prints in as little as an hour from more than 550 Sam's
Club locations.
Sam's Club is the first membership warehouse club to offer this direct
print-to-club path from Smilebox. Just in time for holidays, Sam's Club
members will be able to combine their photos with high-quality designs and
print holiday greeting cards, invitations, collages, calendar pages,
scrapbook pages and more at Club locations with a photo lab.
"We're pleased to partner with Smilebox and to be able to offer our
members a broad selection of high quality designs and an easy way to
create more personal printed keepsakes at a tremendous value," said
Michael Chaney, senior director, photo center, wireless and tech services
at Sam's Club.
Sam's Club members also receive 15 free premium Smilebox designs (a $50
value) that they can email or post to Facebook or a web site without ads
or save to a digital picture frame. They can also choose from more than
2,000 songs or their personal music and get more printing options.
Customers will receive the co-branded Sam's Club version of Smilebox on
their photo CD included with their print order or from the Sam's Club
website at www.samsclub.com/smilebox.
"We're delighted to be working with Sam's Club for our first
print-to-store rollout," said Andrew Wright, founder and CEO of Smilebox.
"Smilebox gives Sam's Club members an integrated print-to-Club feature
that's affordable, convenient and as easy as home printing," he added.
Smilebox lets customers quickly turn life's moments into digital creations
to share with others or to save. Smilebox users can email or post to a
blog or Facebook any design for free. For $1.99 to $3.99 customers can
purchase premium designs to print at home or retail, get more music
choices, share full screen without ads and more. Customers can also
subscribe to Club Smilebox for $5.99/month or $39.99/year to make all
designs premium, burn their Smilebox creations to DVD or save video files
to an iTouch or iPhone. Smilebox is available for both PC and Mac
platforms.
About Smilebox Inc.
Founded in 2005 by Andrew Wright, Smilebox is the leading way friends and
families celebrate, share and preserve special moments in their lives.
Since the service's launch in June 2006, more than 8 million people have
installed Smilebox and more than 70 million Smileboxes have been played
worldwide. Smilebox is the only service that supports all personal media
(photos, videos, music), all content types (ecards, invitations,
slideshows, scrapbooks, photobooks and postcards) and all sharing methods
(email, print, burn to DVD, blog and post). Smilebox is a privately held
company and headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
About Sam's Club
Sam's Club is a division of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., (NYSE: WMT). The first
Sam's Club opened its doors in Midwest City, Okla., in 1983. Today, Sam's
Club serves more than 47 million U.S. Members with locations nationwide,
as well as in Brazil, China, Mexico and Puerto Rico. Sam's Club saves its
members on average 30.4 percent over grocery and specialty retailers by
offering superior values on quality merchandise and services for home or
work. Saving is made simple at Sam's Club. Visit samsclub.com for more
information.
Smilebox is a trademark of Smilebox, Inc. All trademarks and brands are
the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Tamese Robinson
Smilebox, Inc.
425-881-9475 ext. 216
Email Contact
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at 6Sight Conference
Brian Smiga
Smilebox, Inc.
917-270-1552
Email Contact
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