Budget Blinds And Somfy Partnership Ensures Home Theaters Are Kept In The Dark

Alliance Between the Leader in Custom Window Coverings and the Leader in Motorization Allows Consumers to Complete Their Home Theater in Style

August 30, 2006

Big screen TV – check! High Definition DVD player – check! Popcorn – check! Glare on the screen – uh oh! Don’t let your in-home movie-watching experience be marred by glare from outside light. Budget Blinds®, one of America’s premier specialists in custom window treatments, offers the perfect solution to complete the home theater environment in style. Budget Blinds boasts a variety of innovative light-blocking products and features including hidden-tilt rods for shutters, decorative tapes to cover rout holes on wood blinds and blackout honeycomb shades. These light-blocking window coverings ensure that anytime of day is okay to enjoy a home entertainment center without glare. To make sure that the window coverings in your home theater don’t cramp your style, Budget Blinds has partnered with Somfy, a leading manufacturer of specialized motors and electronic controls, to launch new window covering products featuring automation. Motorization from Somfy will be available for products from many big-name brands available through Budget Blinds including DSC Window Fashions, Lafayette Interior Fashions® and Kathy Ireland Home by Alta®. Starting this fall, Budget Blinds’ private label products, Signature Series™ by Budget Blinds and Signature Fabric Treatments™, can also be motorized. Now with the simple touch of a button, shades, blinds and draperies are easily moved, even in the most difficult, hard to reach areas, allowing for effortless light control and maximum movie enjoyment. About Budget Blinds, Inc. Based in Orange, California, Budget Blinds, Inc. was founded in 1992 and boasts nearly 1,100 franchise territories in the United States, Canada and Iceland serving over 2,500 cities. As consumer demand for its quality and convenient service continues to grow, Budget Blinds has established itself as a dominant player in the multi-billion dollar window covering market. In the past three years, the company has more than doubled in size in terms of number of franchisees, franchisee sales and franchise equity. In addition to other accolades, Entrepreneur Magazine has ranked Budget Blinds first in its category every year since 1996. For more information on Budget Blinds visit www.budgetblinds.com. About Somfy Systems, Inc. Somfy, the world leader in specialized motors and electronic controls for residential and commercial interior and exterior window coverings, has North American headquarters located in Cranbury, NJ. For more than three decades, engineers at Somfy have been designing products to automate interior and exterior window coverings such as awnings, rolling shutters, exterior solar screens, interior shades, wood blinds, draperies, projection screens and more. Somfy motorization systems are easily integrated with security, HVAC and lighting systems providing total home or building automation. For more information on Somfy visit www.somfysystems.com.

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