Wine Market Assistant is a joint venture between ReadyTouch and WinesandRecipes.com. The venture was formed to develop and market a third generation application combining the two companies experience in the kiosk and retail industry along with the wine and food industry. It combines award winning wine, recipe and cheese content with an experienced state of the art kiosk developer with enterprise solution integration. The primary focus of this joint venture is to market Wine Market Assistant to the grocery and beverage retail markets.

ReadyTouch was founded in 2003 to allow retailers to seamlessly bring the latest product expertise to customers at the point of sale. The ReadyTouch Kiosk leverages technology to enhance the customer experience, to allow product promotions, and ultimately, to boost sales. Headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, ReadyTouch serves the needs of retail stores across the country.

Founded in 2003, WineMiner, LLC DBA WinesandRecipes.com is an Atlanta, GA based company dedicated to helping consumers find wines available in their favorite store meeting their preferences for price, wine type and taste characteristics. The kiosk also assists in matching food choices based on their wine selection. By providing independent reviews, ratings and winemaker notes consumers can "Find Your Perfect Wine the Every Time".

Wine Market Assistant is creating a larger virtual company by combining efforts with best-in-class partners.

RealPartner with NCR , a proven source of kiosks and point-of-sale(POS) solutions. "Paired with the NCR EasyPoint kiosk, Wine Market Assistant offers a unique technology solution and marketing service to the grocery and wine retail industry, said Dan Bogan, vice president, Americas, for NCR's Retail Solutions Division. "The NCR EasyPoint is a fully-configurable, stand-alone self-service kiosk with many standard features that deliver superior versatility. Its superior performance and flexible mounting options make it an ideal hardware component for the WinesandRecipes.com solution."

Business Partner with IBM, a proven source of kiosks and point-of-sale(POS) solutions.

Agilysys is a leading provider of innovative IT solutions to corporate and public-sector customers, with special expertise in select markets, including retail and hospitality.which specializes in kiosk hardware for individually designed turnkey solutions.

Micro Industries and mCosm, which specializes in kiosk hardware for individually designed turnkey solutions to meet the interactive marketing and self-service needs of retailers and their customers.

The Wine Enthusiast supplies ratings and reviews of wines tasted by the magazine's editors and other qualified tasters who may participate in tasting panels. The reviews are the product of the tasting and review program instituted at the magazine in 1999. Therefore, the focus of our Buying Guide is recent releases.

Wine News provides WinesandRecipes.com™ with fine wine reviews. Wine News is an upscale, consumer-oriented publication that portrays wine as a living entity with a rich and storied history.

Mental Models, Inc., a leading source of interactive usability and human factors design consulting services.