Press Release Document
Tachyon Solutions Wins Silver W3 Award
For SallyBeauty.com
(Sewickley, PA, October 16, 2009) Tachyon Solutions is proud to announce that it has been honored with a Silver Award in the 2009 W3 Awards competition of the International Academy of the Visual Arts. Receiving nearly 3,000 entries, the W3 Awards honors outstanding websites, web marketing, and web video created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
“We were incredibly impressed at the quality and creativity of this year’s entries. W3 winners continue to set the bar in Web development and design, push the limits of web advertising creativity and advance the use of web video. We are thrilled to have reviewed such a diverse and respected pool of work” said Linda Day, the director of IAVA. “On behalf of the entire Academy, we congratulate this year’s W3 Award winners as they continue to advance Internet creativity and greatly contribute to the robust and ever-changing online community.”
Tachyon Solutions Silver Award was received for the following project:
Sally Beauty Supply (SallyBeauty.com) E-Commerce site
“Creating the Sally Beauty Supply site was one of our favorite projects this year, and we had a wonderful collaboration with the e-commerce team at Sally Beauty Supply. We are all proud of what we accomplished, and we are gratified to have won this award from such a prestigious international organization” stated Marion Lewis, CEO of Tachyon Solutions.
Sally Beauty’s Senior Director of eCommerce Richard BenBassett added, “Tachyon was a creative and responsive partner for the redesign of our site. We are pleased with the results and are gratified that the site was chosen for an award.”
About Tachyon Solutions
In an interactive world, the space between technology and marketing can mean the difference between success and failure. Tachyon Solutions helps you bridge that space with robust custom e-business solutions from Tachyon Technologies and interactive marketing solutions from Tachyon Interactive.
Tachyon Interactive combines killer creative, analytics, and managed marketing services to create and reinforce online brand, increase online conversions and increase revenue. Online marketing services include web site design, web analytics consulting, managed e-mail marketing, search engine marketing, comparison shopping engine marketing, affiliate program management, viral marketing, social network marketing, mobile marketing and search engine optimization.
Tachyon Technologies designs and develops world-class online technology solutions. A unique combination of business expertise, technology and support services, their custom technology solutions include e-commerce, intranet and extranet development, and enterprise search applications.
About the W3 Awards
The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.
The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the Web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning Websites, Web Video and Online Marketing programs.
About Sally Beauty Supply
Sally Beauty Supply LLC is the world’s largest retailer of professional beauty supplies offering more than 6,000 salon quality products for hair, skin and nails. The company serves its retail customers and salon professionals at over 2,800 stores in the United States, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Ireland, Belgium, France, Spain and Japan. For further information, visit sallybeauty.com or call 1-800-ASK-SALLY for the store nearest you.
About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.
Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SBH) is an international specialty retailer and distributor of professional beauty supplies with revenues of more than $2.6 billion annually. Through the Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group businesses, the Company sells and distributes through over 3,800 stores, including approximately 200 franchised units, throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, France, Canada, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Ireland, Spain and Germany. Sally Beauty Supply stores offer more than 6,000 products for hair, skin, and nails through professional lines such as Clairol, L’Oreal, Wella and Conair, as well as an extensive selection of proprietary merchandise. Beauty Systems Group stores, branded as CosmoProf or Armstrong McCall stores, along with its outside sales consultants, sell up to 9,800 professionally branded products including Paul Mitchell, Wella, Sebastian, Goldwell, and TIGI which are targeted exclusively for professional and salon use and resale to their customers. For more information about Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc., please visit SallyBeauty.com.