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  The Teddington Cheese won the 1999 DTI ISI/Interforum e-commerce award for the London Area including a £5000.00 prize for the proprietors.
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| Set up in the days
when e-commerce on the web for a small business was a rare occurrence,
this site caught the imagination of the press and public alike. |
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| It received numerous
accolades from magazines and newspapers, being awarded 5 stars
for design by the Financial Times and .Net magazine, picked
out as site of the day by the Telegraph, as well as featuring
on television several times including interviews with the owners.
Business Link used it as an example of how e-commerce should
be done in presentations and lectures to businesses. |
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| The site went on to win the 1999 DTI ISI/Interforum e-commerce award for the London Area with a £5000 cash prize being presented to the owners by Ken Livingstone at a prestigious award ceremony in London. TV interviews and further publicity followed enabling the owners to open a second shop in Kew, London. |
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The site offered an online shopping basket facility for purchasing traditional cheeses via a secure server. The site was clearly set out for easy navigation between cheeses by country of origin, hampers and many other products. Orders were communicated direct to the shop and dispatched the same day. There was a regular newsletter and other features mixing state of the art online business transaction with a friendly traditional approach one would expect of a quality retailer. |
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| In its day, this site
was a trail blazer for its kind, attracting a huge amount of
traffic from the cheese lover buying online, the curious and
the professional ¾who wanted to follow their lead. Cheese orders
were even despatched to the USA ® not bad for the local ¾cheese
shop. |
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Case studies