Channel Intelligence Buys VCommerce

Channel Intelligence, Inc. (CI) has announced the acquisition of key assets of Vcommerce, a provider of eCommerce solutions in Scottsdale, AZ. With the newly acquired assets, CI will, through a new, wholly-owned subsidiary, provide storefront, order management and fulfillment services to retailers, manufacturers and publishers across several industry verticals.

The acquisition of the Vcommerce assets will expand CI's eCommerce platform increases its overall customer base to 235, with more than 25 percent represented in the Internet Retailer Top 250.

Channel Intelligence claims 80 percent market share helping manufacturers drive sales to their channel partners. With the addition of its display advertising, social networking and the Vcommerce fulfillment and storefront assets, CI can now be even more deeply aligned with a manufacturer's overall eCommerce strategy. By partnering with manufacturers and their advertising agencies to drive traffic, process orders, and track sales directly from the manufacturer's on-line store and through CI's vast world-wide network of large and specialty retailers, CI provides a performance-based solution for manufacturers.

For its retail customers, CI now adds complete order management and fulfillment services to its portfolio, allowing retailers to maximize their catalog sales and enable seamless integration across their channel partners. These capabilities, combined with CI's existing comparison shopping engine service and new performance advertising and search engine marketing services, provides a complete end-to-end solution for retailers to drive profitable sales from these programs.