TD Retail Card Services: Customized Private Label Credit Card Solutions

For: Shoppers Charge Accounts, Mahwah, NJ
From: Parness & Associates, Aberdeen, NJ

For Immediate Release

SCA INITIATES PRIVATE LABEL CREDIT CARD PROGRAM FOR SHAKE A PAW CHAIN IN NY AND NJ

MAHWAH, N.J. (4/17/07) - Shake A Paw, a pet store chain with four locations in New York and New Jersey, has selected Shoppers Charge Accounts (SCA) to develop and administer its private label credit card program.

With stores in Hicksville and Lynbrook on Long Island, and in Union and Green Brook, N.J., Shake A Paw sells a selection of puppies and everything needed to raise them, including supplies, training aids, crates, toys, food and vitamins.

The new Shake A Paw credit card will offer cardholders special privileges, such as a 90-days, same-as-cash option.

About Shoppers Charge Accounts Co.
and TD Banknorth, N.A.

Headquartered in Mahwah, N.J., Shoppers Charge Accounts Co. (SCA) ranks among the nation’s largest private label credit card companies. A division of TD Banknorth, N.A., the company launches and administers new credit card portfolios for brick-and-mortar, internet and catalog merchants, and acquires retailers’ existing credit card portfolios.

TD Banknorth Inc. is a leading banking and financial services company headquartered in Portland, Maine and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TD Bank headquartered in Toronto, Canada. TD Banknorth is one of the 25 largest commercial banking organizations in the United States, with over $40 billion in assets. TD Banknorth's banking subsidiary, TD Banknorth, N.A., operates banking divisions in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont. TD Banknorth and TD Banknorth, N.A. also operate subsidiaries and divisions in insurance, wealth management, merchant services, mortgage banking, government banking, private label credit cards, insurance premium financing and other financial services and offers investment products in association with PrimeVest Financial Services, Inc. For more information, visit http://www.TDBanknorth.com.

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Press Contacts:
At SCA, Ed Fechner, senior v.p., (201) 818-4000, ext. 3026;
At Parness & Associates Public Relations, Bill Parness or Lisa Kreda, (732) 290-0121.