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Home > Company Index > Specialty Retail > Miscellaneous Retail > Hello Direct, Inc.

Hello Direct, Inc.
 PROFILE
Ah, the poetic justice Hello Direct delivers. The company sells telephones and accessories (headsets, amplifiers) to small and medium-sized businesses and the very telemarketers who ring you just when dinner is warm. So where's the justice? It sells the merchandise though its catalogs (about 30 million mailed annually), its Web site, and -- ha-ha! -- its own nimble-fingered staff of telemarketers. More than 50% of Hello Direct's sales come from proprietary products that it develops and third parties manufacture; the rest comes from manufacturers whose brand names include AT&T, Panasonic, VTech, and Nextel. The company was acquired in 2000 by GN Netcom, a Denmark-based maker of hands-free telecom equipment.

 COMPETITION
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 DEALS
Deal: Hello Direct to be the Telecom Product Provider for Go2Net
Date Announced: 09.30.99
Value of transaction (US $Mil): 0
Description: Hello Direct will be the exclusive provider of telecommunications products in Go2Net's new HyperMart Small Business Center.

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
1999 Sales (mil.): 81.10
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 18.0%
Employees: 248
Revenue per employee: $327,016.13

 CONTACT INFO
5893 Rue Ferrari
San Jose, CA 95138
US
Phone: 408-972-1990
Fax: 408-972-1061
Online: Web Site

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