Founded in 1998, the New Jersey-based ScreenFriends(TM)
Corporation
developed the proprietary Personal Inter(Face)(TM) software
that combines
voice recognition and animation to enable users to operate
their computers and
explore the Internet through everyday speech. ScreenFriends
Corporation
partners with companies to provide a valuable "relationship
branding" tool,
allowing these corporations an infinite number of impressions
with customers
who interact with their
streenFriend character. The product
is distributed
via retail promotions, entertainment promotional tie-ins,
CD mailings and web
site downloads and has an emphasis on simplifying online
activity. It also
offers other web site affiliates and sponsors a dynamic
and revolutionary new
customer access and advertising venue. ScreenFriends
has already closed deals
with major movie studios, corporations and media companies.
ScreenFriends
will be launching a full line of its software in Fall
2000.
ScreenFriends Corp. generates revenues by creating customized
and licensed
characters for corporate branding, corporate training
and customer
relationship management. Monthly maintenance is also
offered to empower the
characters to deliver ongoing offers, rewards and advertising
to the
corporations' consumer base. It also has revenue sharing
agreements with over
350 online affiliates from sales through the ScreenFriends'
Inter(Face)(TM).
Additional information is available on the company's
web site
(http://www.screenfriends.com).
Global Image Technologies (GI Tech), a wholly owned subsidiary
of WENR, is
poised to provide e-commerce, web hosting, Internet support
and interactive
CD ROMs for ScreenFriends' customers. With cross marketing,
ScreenFriends and
GI Tech can offer a broader range of services. GI Tech
is engaged in
providing Internet support services, web hosting and
software development for
business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce.
WENR is a holding company that provides senior management
expertise and
funding for post start-up, growth companies. As such,
it serves as a
BDC (business development company).
For more information, please contact: Richard Hagman,
CEO, 303-771-6601,
rhagman@msn.com, or Dan Green, President, 310-337-0998,
dgreen@wenr.net, both
of WENR Corporation; or Jonathon Barbato, Exec. VP Marketing
of ScreenFriends,
Corp., 303-331-8091, jbarbato@screenfriends.com.
Disclaimer
This news release contains information that is "forward-looking"
in that
it describes events and conditions, which WENR Corp.
reasonably expects to
occur in the future. Expectations for the future performance
of the business
of WENR is dependent on a number of factors, and there
can be no assurance
that WENR will achieve the results as contemplated herein.
The accuracy of
these statements cannot be guaranteed as they are subject
to a variety of
risks including the possibility that the described activities
will not be
completed.