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These companies can also provide free hosting for your store, but to allow visitors to pay for
merchandise with credit cards, you need a merchant account with a bank. If your company
doesn't already have one, it must establish one. Table 8.1 lists some corporate customers for
HostWay and BroadSpire.
Table 8.1
HostWay Customers
BroadSpire Customers
Customers of Web Site Hosting
Companies
Sony BMG Music
British Petroleum
Coca-Cola Company
CNBC
McGraw-Hill
Sheraton
Bank of Montreal
Kmart
Hershey's Food
Symantec
Campbell Soup Company
Pardee Homes
Walt Disney Company
BrightHand
Infinity Broadcasting
CD Warehouse
FOX News
GWI Electric
Macronimous.com is a venture of AES Technologies (India) with 110 employees who
design and implement Web sites for some 170 clients around the world. Their design process
includes independent market research to understand exactly what sort of online offering their
clients' customers desire. Based on this research, they build a Web site with their clients'
continual input and feedback.
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Web site designer Corporate Communications built a Global Diversity and Inclusion
Web site for Eastman Kodak to address the company's policy on embracing diversity to an
external audience including potential employees, customers, and suppliers.
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Eastman Kodak's Global Diversity
and Inclusion Web site addresses
the company's policy on embracing
diversity.
