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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For more information, please contact:
Jessica Clark
Senior Marketing Manager
VisionWeb
512-241-8561
jclark@visionweb.com
Block Buying Group Promotes online ordering through
www.VisionWeb.com and
www.BlockBG.com
Block Buying Group members receive existing member discounts when placing orders with participating VisionWeb suppliers
Austin, Texas - September 12, 2003 - VisionWeb, L.P., the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices, announced today that it has entered into a relationship with Block Buying Group (BBG), the largest optical buying group in the U.S., to promote online ordering though www.VisionWeb.com and
www.BlockBG.com.
"We invite Block Buying Group members to take advantage of the ordering efficiency that Internet technologies provide," said Jim Vitkus, VisionWeb vice president and CMO. "BBG members who utilize VisionWeb can order eyecare products online and enjoy the other benefits of the service, including customizable eyecare practice Web sites, online CE/CME classes and more."
BBG members receive existing member benefits when placing orders to VisionWeb-connected suppliers on the VisionWeb site. In the near future,
www.BlockBG.com will also be integrated with VisionWeb's spectacle lens ordering technology, and BBG members will be able to place orders online and receive discounts for spectacle lens purchases on
www.VisionWeb.com and
www.BlockBG.com. BBG member benefits include discounts on frame and spectacle lens purchases from many major optical suppliers and discounts from all major contact lens manufacturers. In addition, BBG has negotiated special discounts, which will apply only to orders placed through VisionWeb. Discount details have been negotiated by BBG directly with the labs and suppliers.
"We are excited about our new relationship with VisionWeb," said Michael Block, BBG president and CEO. "I believe that the additional VisionWeb-specific discounts that are now available to our members demonstrate our commitment to our customers, and to improving efficiencies in our members' practices."
ABOUT BLOCK BUYING GROUP
Headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., Block Buying Group is the largest optical buying group in the U.S. Block Buying Group currently offers the benefits of volume discount purchasing to more than 4,500 eyecare professionals for the purchase of spectacle lenses, frames and contact lenses. For more information, please visit
www.BlockBG.com.
ABOUT VISIONWEB
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, VisionWeb, L.P. is the online service to help eyecare providers simplify and streamline their practices. VisionWeb offers convenient and direct-to-supplier online ordering; one-stop access to ophthalmic clinical news and information pooled from more than 1,200 publications worldwide; customizable eyecare practice Web sites; and other benefits for opticians, optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical manufacturers, laboratories, distributors and patients. For more information or to register, please visit
www.VisionWeb.com.
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