TheFind Announces Winners of TheFind100, the Top Specialty Stores of 2008

February 10, 2009; 09:47 AM

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TheFind, Inc. (www.TheFind.com), the leading shopping search engine and web destination for discovering lifestyle goods, announced today the winners of the inaugural TheFind100, recognizing the best 100 online stores in sixteen shopping categories. These categories include: Apparel, Appliances, Baby Clothing, Bags & Luggage, Crafts, Food & Wine, Furniture, Garden, Health and Beauty, Home, Jewelry, Kids & Family, Kitchen, Pets, Shoes, Tools & Hardware, and Sports & Outdoors.

TheFind100 annual list can be found by visiting www.thefind.com/thefind100.

Over 500,000 online stores and retailers can be found on TheFind, and over 11 million people are visiting the TheFind every month. This sheer diversity illustrates the great achievement that these 1,600 merchants demonstrated by being clear favorites of users searching within each specific category.

“Shopping on the Web can be so overwhelming, and I love the way TheFind brings the online shops to life with vivid pictures and informational snapshots,” said Heather Nolte, founder and chief executive officer of Glamajama. “I’m absolutely thrilled that Glamajama made the Top100 list for Baby Clothing. I think it’s a terrific tool for our customers and I especially enjoy the 'local search' function.”

“It is a great honor to be selected as a favorite Web site in the Kids & Family category for specialty stores. We are so happy to be recognized by shoppers as a place where they enjoy purchasing quality toys,” said Linda Rocco, president of Gummy Lump Toys. “We have just unveiled a new Web site and in the coming months we will be adding some great features to really interact with our customers. We just started building our Special Needs section that features an "Ask the Teacher" Q & A for parents, articles written by our own Special Education Expert, and a list of Developmental Milestones for children. We hope our shoppers will come back often and give their input so that we can be the store with the best information, as well as toys, for their children."

“Pink Mascara is honored to be a part of the TheFind100 list of Apparel websites,” said Renee McCracken, owner of PinkMascara.com. “Our business continues to grow every quarter and partnering up with amazing sites like TheFind helps us to achieve our sales goals. I look forward to a long relationship with them.”

“At TheFind, we are committed to connecting shoppers with the best stores and online retailers, and believe that by recognizing unique, specialty retailers with this annual award we will go a long way to promoting the very best of online shopping,” said Larisa Hall, Vice President of Marketing for TheFind Inc.

Over the last few years, TheFind has emerged as a leading shopping search engine for millions of consumers seeking not only popular products, but also hard-to-find items. TheFind has proven its ability to deliver search results immediately from both mainstream department stores and coveted specialty boutiques alike, thereby discovering products virtually inaccessible via other methods.

For more information, or to receive the 2008 list of TheFind100, please contact Shaila Arora at [email protected].

About TheFind Inc.

TheFind, Inc. (www.TheFind.com) offers the leading shopping search engine that delivers comprehensive and visually compelling results for products, specializing in the lifestyle goods category. From the most popular e-commerce sites to the most unique, hard-to-find brands, TheFind.com uniquely crawls the entire Web to find more than 320 million products from over 500,000 stores and online merchants. By using its patent-pending “product ranking” technology, TheFind displays the top products, styles, brands, stores, coupons and local shops for any shopping search right on the first page of results – saving consumers time and money. TheFind Inc. family includes leading fashion shopping website Glimpse (www.Glimpse.com), which specifically caters to fashion-savvy shoppers searching for the latest trends, and TheFindGreen (www.TheFindGreen.com) which finds organic brands, green stores and environmentally-friendly products. TheFind Inc. promotes shopping that gives back to the community through its Color For A Cause campaigns, which have included charitable beneficiaries such as The Susan G. Komen Foundation, Doctors Without Borders and Global Green USA. TheFind: Every Store. Every Product. All at Once.

TheFind Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is backed by leading investors Bain Capital Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Contacts:

Arora PR for TheFind, Inc.
Shaila Arora
310-749-5006
[email protected]