Anything!Student Announces Launch of International Internet Portal and E-commerce Site for Students
Anything!Student.com to enable college students worldwide to access tools and services to meet both practical demands and lifestyle needs
LONDON AND WASHINGTON--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--October 31, 2000--Anything!Student today announced the U.S. launch of
anythingstudent.com, one of the world’s first global e-commerce sites for the international student community. Selected by Anything!Student to provide strategic counsel and the technology solutions to build the distinctive site, Andersen Consulting’s eGovernment Solution Centre in London will continue to provide site strategy, design and development as anythingstudent.com continues its rollout in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and Southeast Asia in the next year.
According to Nic Shulman, Founder and CEO, Anything!Student, “We worked with Andersen Consulting to tap the firm’s experience and vision for education in the 21st century, building a portal where today’s wired students can go to obtain the products and services they need to support their collegiate experience. To help us achieve our objectives, Andersen Consulting provided a unique, sophisticated, global perspective on Web communities and eBusiness coupled with the design expertise to build an online gathering place that maximizes Anything!Student’s opportunities in this market with tools that help our retail and service sector partners develop new products and services for students.”
Specifically, Anything!Student offers global data collection capabilities that highlight student trends, which the retail and service sector partners may use to help them develop new products and services that would appeal to college students. This data also is expected to be helpful as these partners tailor their products and services to students aged 18 to 30 in various regions of the world.
Students will have access to a wide range of academic and lifestyle products and services specifically developed for students around the world. Portal visitors will be able to go to different windows within the portal, based on whether they are interested in fashion, travel, music, books, food and drink, accommodations, and career and advisory services. The destination web site also will cover the latest in news, sports and politics.
In addition to channeling content from premier product and service providers, Anything!Student offers online legal and medical advice specifically geared toward college students. The site also carries StudentMagazine.com, which is already visited by more than 300,000 students daily.
“As an early adopter in the trend toward mobile commerce or mCommerce, Anything!student is positioning itself to stay ahead of the curve in the race to become the premier site of choice for today’s college students,” said Steve Dempsey, the Andersen Consulting partner responsible for the firm’s eEducation and eGovernment work in Europe. “From the beginning, Anything!student demonstrated its marketing prowess, wanting to develop a site that was structured with students’ desires in mind.”
Robin Squire, Chairman of anything!student and former Minister of Education in the United Kingdom, comments, “Existing student web sites tend to focus solely on lifestyle content, which although entertaining, only covers one aspect of student life. There is a need in the international student community for a wider breadth of tools and counsel to address such matters as career decisions, personal finance and study guides. Anything!student aims to fill that void.”
About Anything!Student
Based in London, with development teams working in the United States, Latin America, Australasia and Europe,
Anything!Student is an international concern specifically focused on addressing the needs of students worldwide. The company is a division of Adrenaline Media PLC
(www.andrenalineglobal.com), an integrated business in the student marketplace.
Anything!student.com, one of the company’s channels to the student community, provides students with access to products and services in areas such as shopping, fashion, entertainment, jobs, travel, music, video, television, books, food and drink. Student advisors and updated editorial content ensure coverage of the latest in student trends.
About Andersen Consulting
On January 1, 2001, Andersen Consulting, the $8.9 billion global management and technology consulting organization, will change its name to Accenture. The firm is reinventing itself to become the market maker, architect and builder of the new economy, delivering innovations that improve the way the world works and lives. More than 65,000 professionals in 48 countries deliver a wide range of specialized capabilities through service lines to clients across all industries. The firm brings an expanded range of solutions and services to clients through its consulting and outsourcing business, operating companies, alliances and investments in ventures that employ innovative new technologies and business models. Its home page address is
http://www.ac.com.
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