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Fifth Product Search Was Added Due to Overwhelming Response
WEST CHESTER, Pa., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to present their consumer products to QVC at the e-commerce leader's 2005 Decade of Discoveries Product Search on Friday, April 22 at QVC Studio Park, the company's headquarters, located in West Chester, Pa. The search will provide inventors, designers and manufacturers with a forum to share their innovative consumer products with representatives from QVC's merchandising and vendor relations divisions. More than 2,200 aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners were seen at the first four stops on this nationwide tour.
At the conclusion of this national search, QVC will select the top 100 products and put them on special QVC broadcasts (summer 2005). During these broadcasts, viewers will have the opportunity to see and purchase the products discovered during this search.
"QVC honors the American entrepreneurial spirit by providing a forum for inventors and entrepreneurs to submit their products to us for consideration," said Darlene Daggett, QVC's president of US commerce. "We're always looking for the next big invention to bring to our customers. In past product searches, we've looked for that one unique item to present to our viewers but this year, we're looking for 100 of the country's most innovative new products."
QVC introduces more than 250 new products to its viewers each week. Products on QVC that have shown great success are those that are demonstrable on live television, solve an everyday problem, appeal to a broad audience, have unique features and benefits and are topical or timely.
Advanced registration is requested and information can be found at http://www.qvcproductsearch.com/.
QVC, Inc., a $5.7 billion company, is an e-commerce leader, marketing a wide variety of brand name products in such categories as home furnishings, licensed products, fashion, beauty, electronics and fine jewelry. QVC reaches over 87 million homes in the United States. Other divisions/subsidiaries include QVC.com, Q Direct, Q Records and Video, QVC @, QVC Local, QVC ProductWorks. The QVC Studio Tour is located at the company's world headquarters in West Chester, Pa.
Source: QVC, Inc.
CONTACT: Media Contacts: Bonnie Clark, +1-484-701-1647, bonnie_clark@qvc.com, or Abby Schaefer, +1-484-701-3356, abia_schaefer@qvc.com, both of QVC, Inc.
Web site: http://www.qvc.com/
