Store News and Press Releases
Title: GearMax® Bags for Fire, Police and medical uses
Date:March 3, 2010
Charlottesville, VA?
We are very pleased to announce adding GearMax® bags to our line of high quality products. GearMax®
has made us a national lead for the Fire, Police, EMS and Rescue market. There line of backpacks is unique
in its' functionality, durability and versatility. They have built in hook systems to hang the kit and keep the bag open for use without it sitting on the floor. They are also being used as more comfortable jump bags medial calls or remote First Responder duties.
We will be offering these as stand-alone gear bags, bags with custom embroidery and with our nationally-own medical and emergency preparedness kits. They will really keep you organized and come in five sizes to meet almost any need.
Title: Our Main Office is Moving
Date:March 28, 2010
We have decided to move our main office and facilities up the road to Ruckersville, VA. We have greatly enjoyed
our production space in Charlottesville, VA but need to move to be more in line with the realities of a new
business climate. Besides a more business-friendly environment in Green County, the new space has some advantages and opportunities that were unavailable in our current location.
- Faster Internet services with more options.
- A stand alone building, with a better maintenance and snow removal program
- An opportunity to add health and safety training classroom. We hope to add complete First Aid , CPR, AED, Advanced and Wilderness first aid training classes by the end of the year.
- A more naturally-lighted space that is more comfortable and lowers costs, (our current building has no windows or skylights
so artificial lighting has always been necessary.
Our schedule will be crazy this month moving tens of tons of product, equipment and furniture into a new space (this is more than a weekend with a friend's pickup)
Note: None of our phone numbers, faxs or emails will change. We will have pictures up shortly.
Title: SafetyStore.com Announces its Newest Generation of Websites
Date: Sept 25, 2009
Charlottesville, VA.
Testing of our newest generation of websites is now complete and we moving the last of our legacy websites
over to our new home with AmeriCommerce.com. It's
multistore capabilities are impressive and in line with budgetary needs. We have found the AmeriCommerce e-commerce
engine offers the features that we were promised for many years (by BVcommerce and StoreFront by Laguarde)
but were never properly delivered. Once all product lines are completely published, we will have more time to add
features and benefits for customers and less time fixing legacy website problems.
New Website Features:
- It has motivated us to completely review every product we sell and update thousands of pages of product
information, added pictures (many newly taken), product reviews and other unique features that help the customer
make an informed choice when purchasing our products and services.
You may still see missing pictures and descriptions here or there (for just a few more weeks) on some of our
products. Please feel free to call our customer service department and we will be happy to help with
features, descriptions, email over pictures etc. as we are completing the catalog.
- Reorganizing our first aid, medical, safety and emergency preparedness and response categories to make
things much easy to find.
- Integrated IT systems between our websites and Order Management Systems to help speed orders to our
customers. When completed, some received orders could be processed, filled and waiting for the shipper to pick
up in as little as 6 minutes.
- Shortly we will be adding new innovations for our products including video product demonstrations and an
opt-in Expiration Program that can remind the customer when certain products are near the expiration dates in there kits.
- Slowly we will be adding product videos and demonstrations all in a effort to help the customer choose
the best products and effectiveness
Title: SafetyStore.com Announces removal of Hydrogen Peroxide
Date: Sept 25, 2009
Charlottesville, VA.
After the rash of reports regarding the possible use of Hydrogen Peroxide in bomb making, CMS, Inc. the parent company of SafetyStore.com,
AllThingsFirstAid.com and many others will no longer be selling this product. "Contrary to what older generations
were taught, their is little use for the hydrogen peroxide in most first aid applications", said Steve Hull,
Co-founder of the company. "We understand several clinical trails have shown over the decades that hydrogen
peroxcide shows little ability to reduce bacteria in topical wounds. First aid grade h ydrogen peroxide is sold at a low concentration. To make the product more dangerous, one needs to process and concentrate the chemical to increase the potency. Household hydrogen peroxide usually looses its potency within 12-18 months and turns back into water. In fact, if you check American families medicine cabinets most of the those brown bottles expired years ago. Their are many other wound cleansers and topical barriers that are more effective and present less of a hazard for misuse."
For some time now, all CMS websites have chosen to not sell instant cold packs that contain Ammonium Nitrate
because of its' potential for bomb making. Our websites only sell Urea based cold packs that are also much
friendly to the environment as a whole.
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Our company welcomes press inquires and information. Please feel free to contact: Steven Hull at (434) 973-8030
email