(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 08, 2000 ) "Stellar," is the term used by executives at CatalogCity.com (www.catalogcity.com), to describe sales for the Holiday Season 2000. And with double the shoppers from last year, a clear top 25 "Best Sellers" has emerged from the site's more than 200,000 products from 500 name-brand and specialty catalogs. As expected, high tech rules, but is followed closely by traditional toys, bath attire, gifts for the home and movie memorabilia. Established merchants on the CatalogCity.com site such as Blair, Fisher-Price, Hammacher Schlemmer, Harry & David, J. Crew, J. Jill and Neiman Marcus, among many others, feature product and gift items in a broad range of prices. The 25 "Best Sellers" carry price tags from less than $10 to as high as $240. Lee Lorenzen, president and chairman of the board of Altura International, parent company for CatalogCity.com stated, "For the month of November 2000, the CatalogCity.com site registered in excess of two and a half million visitors -- representing more than double the number for this same period last year. Additionally, the number of orders per shopper, has doubled. And with December still to come, we are optimistic that this will be the best holiday season yet for online shopping." Gift Ideas As a last-minute gift, the Sharper Image's upgraded version of the Razor scooter ($99.95) in gleaming aircraft-grade aluminum is hotter than ever! The colorful new Razor Wheel.e now features a wheelie bar for spectacular maneuverability for kids, teens and the adventurous adult. For young children, customers are buying items such as Fisher-Price's low-tech Tough Trike and its companion for girls, the Barbie(TM) Butterfly Trike ($20 each) featuring a wide stable wheel base with durable tires, a raised seat and easy-grip handlebars. For the older child, there's the new and improved, bigger and better Classic Erector Special Edition Millennium Set ($99.95) by Spilsbury. With its 643 metal parts, 6V motor, tools and more, no bidding engineer would leave home without it. Women and men alike will love receiving the Improved Living (R) Bathrobe, a bargain at $19.95 with optional monogramming for another $3. Made from wonderfully rich, plush terry velour, this Unisex bathrobe is absorbent and warm. And for added, at-home comfort, buyers are snapping up Brylane Home's luxurious warm throws (50" x 60") in three exotic animal prints -- Bengal Tiger, Zebra or Leopard. ($19.99). And movies play a big role in this year's Catalogcity.com 25 "Best Sellers." The Cedco Collection features "The Grinch" Calendar for 2001 for $12.00 and girls will love the Alloy "Charlie's Angels" Glitter Tee made from white cotton with a glitter screen print on front ($18.00). CatalogCity.com is powered by technology created by its parent company, Altura International, the nation's leading architect, builder and developer of online shopping stores and malls. Altura International has built custom malls or stores for such leading Internet sites as Yahoo!, Excel, Excite, GO.com, InfoSpace, Lycos, NBCi, Quixtar (sm) and others. At the core of each custom mall or store site, is the powerful and flexible e-commerce technology developed by Altura International, the Altura Merchant Operating System (AMOS). AMOS is the only multi-vendor, multi-lingual, multi-currency merchant operating system capable of giving consumers around the globe at different web sites and on different classes of devices, easy access to thousands of the world's best products. CatalogCity.com offers shoppers: Guaranteed, safe and secure e-commerce Unique holiday features, plus special offers and promotions from favorite name brands and specialty catalogs A universal shopping cart that allows buyers to shop from multiple merchants with a single transaction Customer personalized features including: Gift Registry, Date Reminder/Planner and My Favorites Familiar name-brand catalogs offering a wide selection of products New features created to make finding perfect gifts easier, such as "e-gifts," where shoppers can put several items or products in different colors and sizes in one basket and send it to a friend. The receiver can pick one item, color or size from the group -- all without seeing the price! About Altura International & CatalogCity.com Altura International, partially funded by Bill Gates, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Infospace (NASDAQ: INSP), builds on the strengths of its technology and partnerships with hundreds of top name-brand merchants to bring buyer and seller together, and create a compelling value proposition for consumers. Altura built its flagship mall, CatalogCity.com, the world's first and largest online mall for catalog shoppers, in 1997. Altura International was founded in 1997 and is a privately held company, headquartered in Monterey, CA. More information can be found by visiting the company's web site at www.altura.com and the flagship mall site www.catalogcity.com. ---------------Produced for CatalogCity.comContact:Bruce SellersCatalogCity.com831-647-4707bruces@altura.comorPeggy Lohmann831-626-7001peggyl@altura.comGraphic Available on Request---------------

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