Wine Direct Shipping Compliance News.

October 2008:

• Direct Shipping Online Seminar Draws Huge, Diverse Crowd
  

September 2008:

• ShipCompliant Offers Retail Solution
  

July 2008:

• American Winery Integration
• New Free Temperature Tool
• ShipCompliant's Free Temperature Forecasting Tool
• Conference Clarifies Direct Shipping Issues and Processes
• 10 Blogs Every Winery Owner Should Read
• An Independence Day look at progress in direct shipping since Granholm v Heald
• 2008 User Conference Nearly Sold Out

April 2008:

• Coalition for free trade promotion
  

January 2008:

• Washington Wine Institute Selects ShipCompliant to Provide Direct Shipping Compliance

Free the Grapes! and Coalition for Free Trade Toast ShipCompliant Promotion

"Help Shackles" Campaign Supports Winery Free Trade, Consumer Choice in Wine

April 29, 2008, Napa, CA – ShipCompliant, the wine shipping compliance company, has created a novel promotion designed to help wineries and raise money for Coalition for Free Trade and Free the Grapes!, two organizations at the forefront of industry litigation and consumer outreach on the direct shipping issue. ShipCompliant will donate one month’s revenue for each new customer who signs up for their direct shipping compliance software in May 2008. Please see www.shipcompliant.com/helpshackles for more information.

Legislation that favors consumer choice in wine plus the Supreme Court ruling in Granholm v. Heald have been a boon to wine lovers. And while Free the Grapes! and Coalition for Free Trade have continued to work with industry representatives to open new states, defend legal states, and streamline onerous legislation, a patchwork of state regulations presents administrative challenges to wineries.

ShipCompliant is used by more than 600 wine brands across the county to those companies understand and efficiently comply with changing regulations, via order shipping compliance checks and auto-populated state shipping and tax reports all underpinned by flexible geography based rules-engine technology and dedicated compliance expertise.

Now, ShipCompliant has launched its "Help Shackles" campaign – named after the Free the Grapes! logo – to raise additional funds for the associations that have broadened the market for direct to consumer wine sales. "This is the right thing to do, and wineries will find it surprisingly easy to use our new compliance tools," said Jason Eckenroth, president of ShipCompliant. "We hope to translate ShipCompliant's value into a generous donation for these worthy and effective organizations," he added.

"This is a breakthrough concept for the wine industry," said W. Reed Foster, president of Coalition for Free Trade. "For too long, funding has relied on a few generous people and companies who recognize the return on investment of these donations," he added.

For more information on the ShipCompliant promotion and service, wineries should visit www.shipcompliant.com/helpshackles, or call Kim Moss at (707) 320 0053.

Media Contact:
Elizabeth Hause, ShipCompliant (303) 996-2344
W. Reed Foster, Coalition for Free Trade (510) 420-4511