HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 21, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VistaPrint Limited (Nasdaq:VPRT) today announced that two nearly identical purported class action lawsuits have been brought against VistaPrint USA, Inc., VistaPrint Corp., and two third party merchants in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. The plaintiffs allege various violations of the federal Electronic Funds Transfer Act and the federal Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, as well as asserting various state statutory and common law claims, relating to certain membership discount programs offered by the third party merchants on VistaPrint's U.S. website. The plaintiffs seek an unspecified amount of damages, including compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief. VistaPrint believes it has meritorious defenses to these lawsuits and intends to defend these matters vigorously.
About VistaPrint
VistaPrint Limited (Nasdaq:VPRT) is the small business marketing company having served over 15 million customers world-wide. VistaPrint offers small businesses the ability to market their business with a broad range of brand identity and promotional products, marketing services and electronic marketing solutions. A global company, VistaPrint employs more than 1,400 people and operates 19 localized websites serving over 120 countries around the world. A broad range of marketing products and services are available online at www.vistaprint.com. VistaPrint's products are satisfaction guaranteed.
VistaPrint, the VistaPrint logo and VistaPrint.com are registered trademarks of VistaPrint. All other brand and product names appearing on this announcement may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
This press release contains statements about management's future expectations, plans and prospects of our business that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements concerning the anticipated conduct and prospects of our defense of the purported class action lawsuits. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors, many of which are outside of our control. In addition, the statements in this press release represent our expectations and beliefs as of the date of this press release. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments may cause these expectations and beliefs to change. We specifically disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our expectations or beliefs as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.