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Reply! Moves Headquarters to San Ramon, CA
Online Consumer Services Company Outgrows Current Facility, Moves to 40,000 Square-Foot Office in Bishop Ranch
Walnut Creek, CA - November 15, 2006 – Reply!, Inc. (www.reply.com), a leading provider of online services for consumers, today announced that it has moved its headquarters to a new and much larger office located in Bishop Ranch in San Ramon, CA, to keep up with the pace of its growing staff. Reply! selected its new 40,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for its central location and large capacity, as it continues to grow and gain momentum as a leading provider of online services that “make life’s big decisions easier™" in such markets as real estate and automotive.
The move to the new office, located at 12667 Alcosta Boulevard in San Ramon, highlights Reply!’s continued growth. The company’s workforce has doubled in the past year and Reply! anticipates continued growth in 2007, which the new office will be able to comfortably accommodate.
“The need to expand our office space is a direct consequence of our success, market acceptance of our offering and future anticipated growth,” said Reply! Chairman and CEO Payam Zamani. “Our new office facility allows us to add new employees as the company continues to grow its current lines of business and add new ones.”
“Reply.com’s decision to relocate to San Ramon is a great addition to Bishop Ranch, joining other top companies including Chevron, Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T,” said Ed Hagopian, senior vice president of Sunset Development Company, developer of Bishop Ranch.
Reply!’s growth spurt was powered this summer in large part by the launch of the company’s major Internet portal, the first and only online service allowing consumers to receive instant access to valuations of virtually any home in America and then allowing users to make an Unsolicited Offer™ or connect with a local real estate agent. Reply! users can write their personal reviews on homes and automobiles, access factual data about more than 70 million homes in America, view aerial photos of homes and find a rich array of information about U.S. neighborhoods - all for free. The Reply.com portal also allows consumers interested in making a transaction to find a qualified local real estate agent or receive competitive price quotes on cars of their choice from auto dealers who are members of Reply!’s nationwide network of more than 17,000 service providers.
About Reply!, Inc. Since it’s founding in 2001 by a team of e-commerce veterans, Reply! has become the leading provider of online consumer services in its commitment of “making life’s big decisions easier”™. Reply! provides consumers with free-of-charge access to valuable services and decision making tools currently in two core industries: real estate and automotive, with continuing expansion into other major categories. Reply!’s comprehensive family of online trade brands - RealtyNow®, AgentConnect®, Connecting Neighbors®, and iMotors® - provide a highly effective model of performance based e-marketing solutions to locally targeted service providers.
Based in San Ramon, CA, (commencing November 27, 2006) Reply! has experienced significant overall expansion and success. Within the last 12 months, Reply! has expanded its workforce to over 250, secured a funding round of $17 million, and made a series of important executive management hires. To learn more about Reply!, visit www.reply.com.
Media Contacts:
Tonya Hayes
Reply!
925.947.2166 x 283
media@reply.com
Cedric Vanhaver
Neale-May & Partners
650.328.5555 x 125
cvanhaver@nealemay.com
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