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April 24, 2013 09:47 pm GMT

GreenCupboards Acquires The Assets Of Ecomom, The E-Commerce Site Founded By The Late Jody Sherman

ecomomEcomom, the Las Vegas-based e-commerce site for eco-friendly kids’ products founded by the late Jody Sherman, wound down its operations due to financial insolvency soon after Sherman’s death at the age of 47 in January 2013. But there is a silver lining of sorts: Today it was announced that Ecomom’s assets have been acquired has been acquired by GreenCupboards, a Spokane, Washington-based online retailer. The Ecomom.com site, which was shut down a couple months ago, will reopen for business in early summer. We’re working on getting more details on what the deal entails, and will update this post as more info is available. It appears at the moment that this includes intellectual property and no staff — Ecomom had a For now, here is the press release announcing the sale. GreenCupboards acquires ecomom SPOKANE, Wash., April 24, 2013 GreenCupboards, an online retailer of more than 25,000 environmentally friendly products for homes and businesses, today announced it has acquired the assets of ecomom, an online eco-friendly retailer serving the rapidly growing niche of baby, kids and moms. Today, GreenCupboards also announced that it has changed its corporate name to etailz, Inc. etailz will serve as the parent company of GreenCupboards and ecomom. While etailz has long admired the vision and mission of ecomom and was saddened by the series of events that led to the close of ecomom, we are pleased to have the opportunity to continue the work conceived and inspired by ecomoms dedicated founders and employees, said etailz Co-founder and CEO Josh Neblett. Innovation and long-term success are central to etailzs strategy. Changing our corporate name to etailz allows us to operate individual businesses, such as GreenCupboards and ecomom, as well as grow our etailz family of brands over time. Upon the acquisition, etailz owns all ecomom IP including trademarks, domain names, social media, customer lists and inventory. etailz will re-open ecomom at https://www.ecomom.com in early summer of 2013. Financial terms of the acquisition are not disclosed. and here is the announcement as it appears on the Ecomom website: “Today I am delighted to share with you the exciting news that ecomom will be reopening in early summer of 2013. In late March, ecomom was acquiried by etailz, Inc., operator of GreenCupboards.com, a website dedicated to offering the widest array of thoroughly vetted eco-friendly products for you and your home. Over the past 5 years, etailz has worked

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