Singapore, 06 December, 2000 - Leading innovative music lifestyle network, Vivamusic.com, today announced its strategic alliance with Music Junction, a local music retail chain. Under the agreement, Music Junction will put their wide range of music CDs online at Vivamusic.com's website, and create a music surfing zone with terminals installed by Vivamusic.com at their nine stores nationwide.
“This partnership showcases Vivamusic.com's expertise in Internet-enabling music businesses,” said Mark Lai, CEO, Vivamusic.com. “Music Junction customers will enjoy instant access to Vivamusic.com's full suite of services and information, and we will have access to Music Junction's customers as well. We are currently talking to other partners in the region to join our retail network so as to enjoy greater economies of scale.”
The alliance will bring both companies together to create a music surfing zone at Music Junction stores throughout Singapore. The first such surfing zone in Singapore can be found at Vivamusic Hub, the Hub for today's music entertainment lifestyle. In its efforts to be more than a music CD retailer, Music Junction stores will feature the surfing zone, which will be equipped with terminals installed by Vivamusic.com. Music Junction's customers will have high speed broadband access to a whole array of Vivamusic.com's music-related content, from the latest hits and popular music videos to interviews with famous music personalities.
“Music Junction's alliance with Vivamusic.com opens up tremendous opportunities for us,” said Kelvin Lee, Managing Director, Music Junction. “We have easily made the leap into cyberspace with this partnership with a high level of competence and opened up new distribution channels for us to offer our customers something new, innovative and useful.”
Vivamusic.com recently introduced CD and custom CD sales online. This partnership with Music Junction will add new titles that complement Vivamusic.com's selection, increasing the titles that consumers can choose from. Thus, Vivamusic.com will have a wider variety of titles and Music Junction will have a new site to sell its music from. Moreover, Music Junction's customers will have access to Vivamusic.com's exclusive products like custom CDs and albums from the latter's network of independent record labels.
About Music Junction
Music Junction is one of Singapore's top music retail chains with nine stores nationwide. Having grown from a simple CD store in 1992, Music Junction now offers music CDs of every genre as well as Video CDs and other related music merchandise.
About Vivamusic.com
Vivamusic.com is the premier online music lifestyle network in Asia. Working with major
recording labels, Vivamusic.com offers access to digital downloadable songs of all genres
and various languages. In addition, users can also watch music videos of international,
regional and local artistes. Vivamusic.com also has its own professional in-house production
team that produces exclusive content for the website.
Vivamusic.com has launched a series of 'firsts' in the music industry. Besides introducing one of the world's first Internet Jockeys, it also established Asia's first music lifestyle store, Vivamusic Hub. The Hub features the latest digital music devices, the “box” - a studio where music is web cast 'live' and interviews are conducted, as well as sales of music compact discs. Vivamusic Hub has also brought in Southeast Asia's first 'CD maker' - a machine for creating custom CDs.
Vivamusic.com is a founding member of the Broadband Media Association, which brings together technology, service, content and media providers to build a business network, and to forge alliances and partnerships in the broadband media industry in Singapore and Asia.
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Vivamusic.com Pte Ltd
83A Kampong Bahru Road
Singapore 169379
Contact :
Lester Lim
lesterlim@vivamusic.com
(65) 221-2686
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