e-2-door is the only community in cyberspace that provides consumers a way to consolidate, simplify, and manage all their online purchases through an Internet to door procurement and delivery service. It does so by leveraging the strengths and industry expertise of its shipping and logistics arm (Orient Freight International Inc.) and maximizing the relationships of its offshore trading and purchasing office.
 

Access Manila’s shareholders include the following prominent business groups and individuals:

Rayomar Management, Inc.

Rayomar is an investment and management company with shareholdings in 14 subsidiaries and related businesses. Majority of the businesses are in logistics and transportation. Rayomar is represented in e-2-door.com through its President, Mr. Ramon C. Garcia as well as Mr. Jose Ramon R. Garcia, its vice-president. Rayomar owns Orient Freight International, an integrated logistics and forwarding company operating in the Philippines since 1973. Orient Freight serves various multinational and large local companies’ logistical & distribution requirements.

Investcorp Inc.

Investcorp is an investment and holding company with local and foreign investments. Investcorp currently holds a significant share in SPI Technologies, Inc., a Philippine company involved in various technology business lines and listed in the Phil. Stock Exchange (PSE). The majority stockholder and chairman is Mr. Leonardo B. Alejandrino who among various positions held in other investment companies such as House of Investments, H&Q, etc…also holds the position of vice-chairman of SPI Technologies.

Antonio O. Olbes

Mr. Olbes is currently the vice-chairman of Philrealty Corp., a large real estate company publicly listed in the PSE. Mr. Olbes is likewise the President of Meridian Insurance and holds directorship in Fort Bonifacio Land Inc., which is a consortium that is developing one of the largest commercial and residential properties in the Philippines.

Mitsui & Co. Ltd.

Mitsui & Co. Ltd. is the largest trading company in Japan. It has investments worldwide in various industries. It is currently expanding its presence in the Internet arena through its wholly owned subsidiary e-Mitsui. It is represented in the Philippines by its branch office Mitsui Manila.

e-2-door targets individual consumers and business customers in the Asia-Pacific region but has the potential to service clients from 120 +/- affiliated freight consolidation and brokerage companies worldwide. It will initially be deployed in the Philippines and later replicated to other countries in the region.
 

e-2-door addresses the distinct procurement needs of both Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) markets through its online shopping and sourcing facilities. The business customer, for example, has the option to request for an online quote or surf the web for the product depending on their sensitivity to time and cost or their familiarity with the World Wide Web.
 
e-2-door also resolves the fundamental issues regarding end-to-end fulfillment, i.e., cross-border logistics and the last mile of services, through its delivery and logistics capabilities. All these services are packaged for the consumer's convenience into one destination location.
 

Consolidated Invoice
 
e-2-door facilitates the payment transactions of a shopper with multiple merchants through a single payment interface/instruction. In this way, the shopper is able to avoid disclosing private payment details across many parties and has the option to use alternative modes of payment not available through the seller.
 
Consolidated Delivery
 
e-2-door consolidates the deliveries of a shopper from different merchants into one shipment. Instead of receiving the orders in different packages and at different times, as is the case when dealing separately with each merchant, the shopper receives only one delivery. It therefore becomes easier to monitor and track purchases.
 

Access to Foreign Shopping Sites
 
e-2-door allows its users to shop at foreign sites - even the ones that don't ship internationally.
 

Economies of Scale
 
In the same manner that it provides access to products not available in the local marketplace, e-2-door bestows the price and cost advantages of global merchants to the local consumers.
 

One Procurement and Logistics Company
 
e-2-door bridges the gap between the purchase and delivery of products. Since there are no third-party hand-offs, delivery of the "last mile of services" is guaranteed, i.e., it is able to trace a package all the way to its destination.
 
Door Delivery
 
e-2-door delivers the merchandise to the specified address, be it the client's home or office, while handling the shipping, tariffs, and custom clearance necessary with overseas purchases.
 

"Door-delivered" Price
 
e-2-door addresses one of the major issues of cross-border logistics. It discloses the full cost outlay for door delivery - shipping and handling charges, custom duties, and tariffs - eliminating overseas purchase surprises.
 
Local Currency Conversion
 
e-2-door provides the shopper with an alternate view of the purchase that displays the total "door-delivered" cost in terms of the shopper's own local currency.
 

Post-Transaction Communication
 
e-2-door manages the customer's expectation throughout the procurement and delivery cycle. It regularly updates buyers on the status of their order eliminating the anxiety they may have about the delivery of the product(s). From the point of purchase through to shipment and finally door delivery, buyers are proactively notified through email the status of their order.
 
Return and Exchange
 
e-2-door answers the "after the last mile" question by following through on fulfillment and later on following-up on product and service delivery. With its online return policy, it hopes to minimize buyer's remorse. A sale does not necessarily have to be final.
 

Personal Shopping Link Exchange
 
As the center of all their online shopping and procurement activities, e-2-door leverages a common brand experience (context) in enhancing all-around site usability, and providing straight-through transaction security and end-to-end service reliability when shopping and buying online anytime, anywhere.
 
Purchase History
 
e-2-door assists shoppers by maintaining a transaction record of ALL their online purchasing activities done through its browser. Since there are no restrictions on which merchant a shopper can do business with, (the whole of cyberspace is the mall), this is a convenient way for the shopper to keep track of his buying behavior.
 

Electronic Wallet
 
Shoppers register with and give their credit card number and other personal information (e.g., email address) to just one site - www.e-2-door.com - regardless of which site they want to shop at, for maximum security.
 
Digital Authentication and Encryption
 
With e-2-door, shoppers get state-of-the-art security. Each purchase is certified by Verisign and is encrypted with SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology. Likewise, another level of authentication and encryption is added on the payment gateway.
 

Procurement Passport
 
Every time they purchase online, e-2-door shoppers do not have to remember and re-input their contact, billing and delivery information, especially when shopping across several merchants. Thus, eliminating the lengthy form filling that can stop an e-commerce transaction. Also, since e-2-door provides them a single place to store and maintain their personal profile, shoppers are not compelled to distribute their private information across the Internet.
 

Who better to attest to the value of the service than those who use it. Below is a sampling of the dozen of great comments e-2-door receives.
 

"Let me congratulate you for launching e-2-door. It's something that a lot of us out here have been wishing for but never really thought could actually happen. We just wait for people to go to the States and buy things we need for us. Now, we can really do it ourselves!"
 

"I actually appreciate the potential value your service offers to us busy Internet users. I am very interested on this venture and will be following your progress."
 

"I have been using Post2Post.com for about a year now but you've done them one better with your system."
 

"I do appreciate and put a lot of value to the service you offer. More power and success to you."
 

"...a good deal for those of us that order and ship in things..."
 
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