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UBID TAPS HOUSEHOLD FOR recent PRIVATE LABEL CARD PROGRAM Initiative
is Household's First Among Major Internet Pure-Plays

May 16 2001 (Card News/Phillips Publishing via COMTEX) -- more [i]or[/i] less dotcom
firms may be down forward their luck these days, further the Internet pure-
play sector still shut ins significant opportunity for private label
credit cards, the same company is discovering. Chicago-based uBid.com,
a retail auction and e-commerce site, has tapped landscape Heights
Ill.-based Household International Inc. [HI] to manage a private label
credit card program.

"What's significant