OrderTrust’s Customers and Merchant Affiliates Gain Access To Real-Time Inventory Management and Fulfillment Services

LOS ANGELES, CA – April 14, 1999 (Spring Internet World, Booth #2128) – OrderTrust, provider of the leading order processing network, today announced that CyberGistics, formerly known as Distribution Associates, the largest direct marketing (DM) fulfillment services group in the U.S., will integrate its state-of-the-art fulfillment services for merchants and customers in the OrderTrust network. By taking advantage of the CyberGistics and OrderTrust strategic relationship, merchants can link directly to a customer’s order status, check on real time inventory and gain up-to-the-minute access to delivery information. With access to world-class best practices fulfillment, merchants can deliver superior service, ensuring that customers receive what they order or request on time, every time.

"We continue to look for ways to expand the services that our network provides through strategic relationships," said Jim Daniell, CEO of OrderTrust. "As one of the leading fulfillment services companies in the industry, CyberGistics has unparalleled expertise in logistics and distribution planning for selling on the Web. By adding CyberGistics’ innovative real-time inventory capabilities to the OrderTrust network, we’re able to deliver a world-class customer experience to provide online consumers with accurate, up-to-the-minute order status information."

CyberGistics joins the OrderTrust Commerce Advantage Program as the first fulfillment services partner to become fully integrated into the OrderTrust network. The OrderTrust Commerce Advantage Program enables technology providers, commerce Web developers and other electronic commerce service providers to leverage OrderTrust’s back-end order processing infrastructure to deliver fast time-to-market electronic commerce solutions.

"Through our integration with the OrderTrust network, we are able to offer our customers state-of-the-art order processing capabilities that integrate with our current distribution and fulfillment operations, a necessary factor which is often overlooked as companies begin deploying e-commerce initiatives," said Tony Lee, CEO of CyberGistics. "Partnering with industry leaders like OrderTrust will continue to be a focus for us as we strive to improve distribution and fulfillment management into the 21^st century by utilizing ground-breaking technologies that streamline fulfillment methods."

About OrderTrust

Privately held and based in Lowell, MA, OrderTrust provides the leading order processing network. Founded by Tim Litle, who previously founded two of the leading payment processing companies, OrderTrust operates a fully redundant, 7x24 network operations center with complete failover capabilities to deliver comprehensive order and transaction processing services. By providing a secure, reliable outsourcing option for order and transaction processing, OrderTrust enables merchants to focus on business and market issues such as building brand identity and increasing their customer base. For more information on the OrderTrust Commerce Advantage Program, see www.ordertrust.net/news&events/11-16-98partners.html.

About CyberGistics

CyberGistics (CG) is primarily owned by Bankers Trust Capital Partners, the private equity arm of Bankers Trust New York, together with management. CG was formed to provide value-added logistics, distribution and telemarketing services to direct marketing companies engaged in e-commerce and Internet-based initiatives. Along with its sister companies, Young America Corporation, QuikPak, Inc. and National Catalog Corporation, CG is an industry leader and one of the largest providers of outsourced fulfillment and distribution services to the direct marketing industry. As a group, these companies have combined services into a cohesive, seamless offering to serve the needs of the largest direct marketing organizations.

OrderTrust is a trademark of OrderTrust LLC. All other names and trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.

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Contacts:

Carrie A. Marino
Lois Paul & Partners
(781) 238-5734
carrie[email protected]

Margie Ferro
OrderTrust LLC
(978) 551-5077
[email protected]