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2008/08/04	Global Dining Launches New Corporate Website We completed work on the new corporate website for Tokyo-based restaurant management company Global Dining Inc. Global Dining owns and operates numerous restaurant chains, including well-known Café La Boheme, Monsoon Café and Gonpachi, as well as various upscale dining restaurants such as Tableaux and Legato. Global Dining was established in 1973 and has over 1,700 full- and part-time employees. Read about the new site here.

2008/07/18	NETWISE Partners with Le Petit Tonneau to Produce Online Wine Store (Press Release) NETWISE New Media has partnered with local restaurant operator and wine importer Le Petit Tonneau Ltd. in launching a new online wine shop specializing in wines from the South of France, including Languedoc-Roussillon, Provence, Southwest and the Rhone Valley. In addition to a wide selection of hand-picked wines from one of the world’s most exciting wine regions, customers will also find lots of great information about French wine regions, grapes, appellations and more. Fans of French food and cooking will want to explore the growing library of detailed food pairing recipes by well-known Petit Tonneau Chef Philippe Batton. The new Online Wine Boutique was designed and developed by multilingual ecommerce specialists NETWISE New Media in both English and Japanese to serve wine lovers in both the foreign and local communities. The new site offers a variety of wine search options, including a convenient “find by occasion” function that make it easy for non-experts to find just the right wine. Customers can choose from three payment methods—credit card, COD or bank transfer—and receive free shipping on all orders over 15,000 yen. To celebrate the launch of the new site they are offering 10% of all first-time orders. Lovers of French food and wine in Japan now have a new home on the web. Visit www.petitonneau-wine.com and see for yourself!

2008/07/01	NETWISE Completes Site Redesign for Leading Destination Management Company Today we launched a new and completely redesigned website for Villissima Limited, a leading global destination management company. Villissima helps its clients locate and arrange stays in some of the most luxurious and expensive fully-staffed world-class villas and private estates. In recent years Villissima has seen an increasing percentage of business coming through and, in their case, available on the web: they recognized the importance of providing their customers with an online experience as personal and comfortable as a face-to-face consultation, while maintaining superior quality and visual standards in their property presentation materials. To realize this goal NETWISE created a gorgeous new site design with a highly-functional yet easy-to-use interface. Having ample image data at our disposal, including villa and location photos, we arranged and presented the content in a fashion that allows these exciting locations speak for themselves. And built in rich villa search and portfolio management functions. Villissima's customers now have ready access to richly detailed information on all of the properties in their portfolio and a powerful intuitive portfolio management function which allows them to keep track of and inquire about those of interest. The newly redesigned user experience has received rave reviews from their customers and partners alike, and pushed them far ahead of the competition. See the new site at: www.villissima.com

2008/06/16	Redesigned DEAN & DELUCA Website Launched We're very happy to announce the release of the redesigned DEAN & DELUCA Japan website. The primary goal of this project was to reorganize the website structure and content such that the online store (designed and developed by NETWISE last year) would form the central core of the website. We also made numerous design changes that brought the Japan site more in line with the CI of the current US site. (Though we're of the opinion that the Japan site now looks much better than its parent...) We also added some new features and tweaked the presentation of some of the products and product categories. The location pages were reworked to improve the layout and the printed versions. We also added a new function to manage recipes in the administration console, with a front-end presentation that looks like a recipe page should. Next we plan to start building in some really great new features that will make the DEAN & DELUCA online store among the very best and most useful in Japan. All hush-hush for the moment, but we'll report back when the new features come online.

2008/06/12	New ROTI Roppongi Site Goes Live We completed work on the new website for ROTI Roppongi, the recently redesigned wine bar and brasserie located in the heart of swinging Roppongi. ROTI has long been well-known to Tokyoites as a high-end American-style grill and rotisserie, and is run by long time Tokyo Chef Ian Tozer. NETWISE was approached by ROTI Roppongi's new owner Maruka Group to create a new online presence for ROTI to coincide with the launch of their newly redesigned venue. We created a simple yet stylishly elegant new site to match the new design and direction of the restaurant. New new site represents a dramatic improvement over the previous site in terms of design, usability, and content presentation and optimization (SEO). Visit the new site here, and by all means pay a visit to the redesigned restaurant as well. You'll find some of our favorite wines from ORCA International and The Vine in the wine list, and the dinner menu continues to impress. Chef Tozer has done a fantastic job of re-creating the ROTI concept, and we're sure you like what you find there.

2008/05/23	ORCA International Site Redesign Complete Tokyo-based wine importer ORCA International has been a NETWISE client for many years, and we have had the great pleasure of watching their business grow year after year. We're also happy that they have entrusted NETWISE with their website and online store. We are big fans of their wide selection of Pacific Northwest wines. It's the most extensive in Japan, and you can purchase any of the products (including Seattle microbrew favorite Redhook Beer) online using the site NETWISE designed and developed for them. Oregon Pinot Noir? Washington Viognier? They've got 'em, and if you've had them, well, chances are good you want 'em. The original ORCA site had been online for three years, and so the time had come to give it a makeover. We did so this month with a new design that freshens up the look and feel while keeping all of the great functionality of the previous site intact. We will be rolling out new features later this month, including an advanced wine searching function for pros and people in the trade, as well as new wine club and other goodies. Check back later for details.