FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Waltham, MA

- October 25, 2004 - Mercia Tapping, President and CEO of AllergyBuyersClub.com, a multi-channel distributor of healthy home products, has been awarded a 2004 Stevie Award for the Best Overall Company of the Year for Women Entrepreneurs. The Stevie Awards is a new national awards competition recognizing the accomplishments of small business owners in the United States . The company was the only Massachusetts based company nominated in the Best Company category.

AllergyBuyersClub.com is a multi-channel distributor for air cleaners, dehumidifiers, hepa vacuum cleaners and other healthy home products that provide relief to the allergy, asthma, and sinus community, as well as anyone seeking a healthy lifestyle in their home or office. The company sells it products through telesales, catalogue and Internet. Mercia Tapping founded the company in 1998. Starting originally out of her home in Newton , MA , the rapidly growing company now has over 10 million dollars in annual sales and twenty-five employees. AllergyBuyersClub.com will be moving for the second time in December 2004 to a 10,000 sq. ft facility in Waltham in order to accommodate future growth.

Mercia 's focus on allergies came from a ten-year illness with environmental allergies, her road to a cure and a desire to educate others on what to do to help themselves. She has accomplished this with thousands of pages of information on the Internet, and e-newsletters (which have a six figure subscription list), a mail catalog and a unique approach to selling products. The company quite openly rates and lists the defects of products that they sell.

The Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs, www.stevieawards/women, is a new national awards competition recognizing the accomplishments of women small business owners in the United States . The awards are sponsored by Advanta, the creators of the prestigious American Business Awards, hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York Post.

More than 600 nominations from small companies in virtually every industry were submitted for consideration in 18 categories. The award ceremony took place on Friday October 22nd 2004.

For more information, contact:

Gary McEldowney
Marketing Director
AllergyBuyersClub.com
486 Totten Pond Rd.
Waltham , MA 02451
1-888-236-7231 Ext: 222
gary@allergybuyersclub.com

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