PETALUMA, CA and SALT LAKE CITY, UT — (Marketwired) — 09/30/14 — MarketLive, the leading Total Commerce platform for high-growth merchants, and Sundance Catalog, the lifestyle retailer founded in 1969 by actor Robert Redford, were selected joint winners of the International 2014 Online Retail Awards. The pair were awarded first place prize for outstanding website in the Fashion and Clothing category.

The Online Retail Awards (ORA) is an international business award that seeks examples of retailers– web, mobile and tablet sites and advances in digital stores that offer exceptional online shopping experiences. The Online Retail Awards– international award ceremony was held in Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, London.

“Sundance turns 25 years old this year, and our business has evolved from an offline catalog in the early days to a full multi-channel e-commerce operation,” said Rick Turek, Director, Information Systems at Sundance. “MarketLive–s technology platform lets us offer shoppers an online experience that has the same high touch quality of thumbing through our catalog and exploring new products, but also gives us the latest in cross channel optimization capabilities. I think that ability to provide an exceptional customer experience regardless of channel is what the judges saw in our award entry.”

“MarketLive and Sundance have an amazing partnership that has been in place more than a decade,” said Ken Burke, founder and CEO of MarketLive, Inc. “They inspired us with the authenticity and integrity of their brand, showcased in fashion and clothing collections, and encouraged us to finesse that spirit into the website. We–re very pleased with the results, and obviously the award judges were, too.”

Sundance Catalog is a catalog and online retailer of fashion, artisan jewelry and home furnishings. Sundance Catalog was formed in 1969 by actor Robert Redford and four employees and now has more than 240 employees and has served more than 5 million customers. For more information, visit .

Since 1995, MarketLive, Inc., has been the leading provider of e-commerce technology and services that help fast-growing companies successfully sell goods and services online. Designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers, the extensible MarketLive® Customer Driven Commerce technology and services solution integrates commerce across all channels, enabling merchants to enhance their customers– experience online while dramatically improving acquisition, conversion, and retention rates.

The MarketLive platform is the most retail-targeted, fully featured, customizable Total Commerce solution on the market today. MarketLive powers many successful retail e-commerce sites, including Armani Exchange, Party City, Perricone MD, Sport Chalet, Sundance, Helzberg Diamonds, John Deere, Title Nine, Intermix and others.

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