GNC Gold Card Members Save 20% at GNCGear.com -- a Pierpoint-Martin Managed Site

 

SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2003--GNCGear.com -- General Nutrition Corp.'s online fitness gear store -- today announced that it will begin offering discounts to the more than 4 million GNC Gold Card members.

Effective immediately, GNC Gold Card members will receive a 20% discount whenever they visit and shop at GNCGear.com during the first seven days of each month.

 

With several thousand fitness-related products including exercise clothing, fitness videos, yoga equipment, fitness footwear, bodybuilding products, martial arts supplies and a wide selection of fitness-related gifts, GNCGear.com is quickly becoming a leading online source for fitness products (gear) for both consumers and fitness professionals.

 

"GNCGear.com is a great place for anyone to shop for fitness gear. Now this is especially true if you are a GNC Gold Card member," said David Cracas, president of e-commerce outsource provider Pierpoint- Martin, which operates GNCGear.com for General Nutrition Corp.

 

GNCGear.com is one of more than a dozen fitness related sites designed and managed by e-commerce outsource provider Pierpoint- Martin including FitBuy.com, Exercise-Balls.com and BodyBuildingSuperStore.com. In addition, Pierpoint-Martin develops software and e-commerce Web sites for numerous other product categories and sales organizations including cosmetics, electronics, travel and nutriceuticals.

 

About Pierpoint-Martin

 

Pierpoint-Martin (www.pierpoint-martin.com) is the premier e-commerce outsource solution provider. Pierpoint-Martin provides e-commerce, fulfillment and customer care services for a variety of partners including General Nutrition Centers.

 

Pierpoint-Martin runs e-commerce operations, including site design, merchandising, inventory, order fulfillment and customer service for major consumer product manufacturers, retailers and media companies under exclusive, long-term agreements.

 

About General Nutrition Corp.

 

General Nutrition Companies Inc. (GNC), based in Pittsburgh, is the largest nationwide specialty retailer of vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements, sports nutrition, as well as personal care and related products.

 

GNC operates more than 5,300 retail outlets throughout the United States, including 1,360 domestic franchise locations and 26 foreign markets, including Canada and Mexico. GNC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Numico N.V., a worldwide market leader in specialized nutrition that includes infant and clinical nutrition and nutritional supplements.

 

Contacts

 

  

 Pierpoint-Martin.com

Alison Winn, 714/557-5042