EXHIBIT
99.1
uBid.com
contact:
Anthony
Priore
Chief
Marketing Officer
773-272-5000
tpriore@ubid.com
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
uBid.com
Holdings, Inc. Announces Addition to its Board of
Directors
August
3, 2006, Chicago, Ill. -
uBid.com Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: UBHI), announced today that Paul Traub has
been
elected to the Company’s Board of Directors, increasing the size of the Board to
three members.
Mr.
Traub
is a founding partner of Traub, Bonacquist & Fox, LLP, a New York based
"boutique" firm, focusing on strategic asset acquisitions and disposition,
insolvency and corporate restructuring, distressed financings, and litigation.
He has served as lead counsel to creditors’ committees, debtors in complex
Chapter 11 cases, and in transactional work in dozens of cases representing
sellers, purchasers, and creditors of financially troubled companies throughout
the United States and Canada. In addition, Mr. Traub is an advisor to Petters
Group Worldwide, LLC a principal stockholder of uBid.com.
Stuart
R.
Romenesko, Chairman of the Board of Directors of uBid.com stated, “I’m pleased
to welcome Paul to the uBid.com Board of Directors. He has vast experience
acting as a mentor to numerous management teams and has been instrumental in
helping other companies evaluate their strategic direction and implement their
objectives. I believe Paul’s entrepreneurial spirit combined with his 30 years
of legal training will be an invaluable asset in guiding the future of
uBid.com.”
About
uBid.com Holdings, Inc.
uBid.com
Holdings, Inc. operates an online auction marketplace located at www.uBid.com
offering new, close-out, overstock and refurbished merchandise to both consumers
and businesses through a trusted auction style and fixed price format. uBid.com
provides consumers the opportunity to bid on or buy a wide variety of popular,
brand name products at significant discounts. uBid.com's unique platform enables
only certified suppliers and manufacturers a more efficient and economical
channel for maximizing revenue of their surplus merchandise. Furthermore,
uBid.com offers consumers a trusted buying environment, eliminating potential
fraud by certifying all its merchants and processing 100% of all merchandise
transactions between buyers and sellers. uBid.com Holdings, Inc. is publicly
traded on the NASD OTC bulletin board (UBHI).
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