"Wine Market Kiosk" Joint Venture Announced -- Provides Food & Wine Retailers with Superior Options for Wine Marketing Application
(PRWeb) January 30, 2007 -- WineMiner, LLC DBA as WinesandRecipes.com and Southwest Georgia Technology Services announce the formation of a joint venture, Wine Market Tech, to develop and market a second generation wine, recipe and cheese pairing kiosk. The new product will be marketed under the name Wine Market Kiosk.
This venture capitalizes on both companies' experience in the kiosk and retail industry along with the wine and food industry. The new application leverages the best of breed technology and content from both partners in the new joint venture - pairing the award winning WinesandRecipes.com content with proven enterprise kiosk technology from Southwest Georgia Technology Services. The primary focus of this joint venture is to provide the Wine Market Kiosk to the grocery and beverage retail markets.
With wine industry sales expected to grow by 62.5 percent over the next three years, many retailers are actively developing strategies to expand total sales and market share. "Wine Market Kiosk addresses the full scope of needs and requirements our grocery and wine retailers need to leverage the higher growth and profit opportunities offered by the wine industry," said Jon Holland, WinesandRecipes.com President.
Wine Market Kiosk enables retailers to select from a variety of four application modules to best suit their environment. "By providing Basic Wine, Cheese, Recipes and Meal Match modules, each retailer can determine which features and functions best meet their distinct image," said John Morrow, President of Southwest Georgia Technology Services. The new application is designed to be scalable to any retail environment and provides full integration with a retailer's PLU and POS servers to ensure their store's wine inventory and prices are reflected on the kiosk.
About WineMiner, LLC:
Founded in 2003, WineMiner, LLC is an Atlanta, GA based company dedicated to helping consumers find wines available in their favorite store meeting their preferences for price, wine type and taste characteristics. The kiosk also assists in matching food choices based on their wine selection. By providing independent reviews, ratings and winemaker notes consumers can "Find Your Perfect Wine the First Time".
About Southwest Georgia Technology Services:
Southwest Georgia Technology Services, LLC (SWGTS) was founded in 2003 by a former NCR Corporation executive with over 30 years experience in point of sale, back-office and interactive self-service kiosk solutions for the Retail information technology market. SWGTS is solely focused on creating innovative interactive self-service kiosk solutions for the Retail market. Their portfolio of such solutions includes: Bill Payment, Vending, Deli and Pizza Pre-order and Wine, Cheese and Recipe Information. Solutions developed by SWGTS have been cited in several industry trade publications.
Contact Name: Jon D. Holland-President; WineMiner, LLC
Contact Phone: WineMiner, LLC=888-450-4529
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