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                                                                    Exhibit 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Company Contact:                                    Media Contact:
Ilia Lekach                                         Larry Turner
Chairman and CEO                                    Backus Turner International
E Com Ventures, Inc.                                305-573-9996
305-889-1520                                        larry@backusturner.com


                  E COM VENTURES, INC. ACQUIRES PERFUMANIA.COM
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MIAMI, May 15, 2000 --- E Com Ventures, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECMV) announced today that
it had acquired perfumania.com from Envision Development Corporation (AMEX:
EDV). As a result, perfumania.com will become a wholly owned subsidiary of E Com
Ventures, Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. E Com Ventures,
Inc. already owns approximately 270 brick and mortar stores through its wholly
owned subsidiary, Perfumania Marketing.

On September 29, 1999, perfumania.com completed its initial public offering and
the proceeds were dedicated to establishing, developing and supporting
perfumania.com's E-Commerce web site and operations. Perfumania.com has
experienced rapid growth with daily page views of approximately 68,000 and daily
user sessions in excess of 9,000.
Sales for the last fiscal year exceeded $2 million.

Perfumania.com is one of the nation's most prominent on-line discount fragrance
retailers and wholesale distributors specializing in the sale of genuine
designer fragrances, bath and body products, cosmetics and skin care treatment
and related gifts and accessories for men, women and children. The market for
beauty products in the United States was $25 billion in 1999. Sixty two percent
of consumers surveyed said they would consider purchasing beauty products
online.

The sale of perfumaia.com stems from Envision's strategy to focus on delivery of
innovative, transactive eBusiness solutions. Envision seeks to deliver these
benefits with a services/products spectrum including eBusiness Consulting,
eBusiness System Development, eMarketing, and Application Licensing through its
IsoStructureTM platform.

Ilia Lekach, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of E Com Ventures, Inc. said,
"Our subsidiary Perfumania Marketing, has achieved double digit increases in
retail store sales for the past twelve months and comparable retail store sales
have increased substantially for the past seventeen consecutive months. From the
time of the initial public offering Perfumania Marketing has worked closely with
perfumania.com, which serves as Perfumania Marketing's portal to the Internet.
We were pleased to see the technical improvements which Envision Development
Corporation brought to perfumania.com's web site, but as Envision's focus moved
to E-Business to Business services, it became apparent that a singular direction
for Perfumania Marketing and perfumania.com would




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provide best results for our shareholders. We expect this acquisition to greatly
accelerate perfumania.com's growth as well as provide additional marketing and
promotional opportunities for ECOMV member companies".


ABOUT E COM VENTURES:

E Com Ventures, Inc. facilitates cross marketing and cross-promotional
opportunities between its member companies, e-commerce investments and its
wholly owned subsidiary, Perfumania Marketing, with it's approximately 1,600
employees, 270 brick and mortar stores and $190 million in annual sales. E Com
Ventures, Inc. supports startups or existing B to B or B to C companies with
development strategies and financial support to introduce products and services
into Internet businesses.


ABOUT ENVISION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION:

Envision Development Corporation is a rapidly growing leader in providing
web-centric transactive technologies through breakthrough applications
development and end-to-end eBusiness solutions.

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ENVIRONMENT IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, THE ABILITY TO SECURE PARTNERSHIP OR
JOINT-VENTURE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER ENTITIES, THE ABILITY TO RAISE ADDITIONAL
CAPITAL TO FINANCE EXPANSION, AND THE RISKS INHERENT IN NEW PRODUCT AND SERVICE
INTRODUCTIONS AND THE ENTRY INTO NEW GEOGRAPHIC MARKETS.

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