Press Release - August 20, 1999

Compsee Inc, Introduces New Business Model

Mt. Gilead, North Carolina - August 20, 1999 - Compsee, a leading manufacturer and supplier of automatic data collection (AIDC) products and customized integrated systems, today announced the introduction of its new corporate business model. Designed to better support AIDC users and value-added resellers (VARs), the company's new model provides total systems integration capabilities and 24 hour access to Compsee through the launch of the company's new Electronic Response & Information Center (ERIC).

Under its new model, Compsee will service its end user clients and VARs through three virtual divisions serving as a:

• National, automatic data capture total systems-solution integrator,
• Manufacturer of Auto ID equipment, including portables, associated tracking packages and wedges for application solutions, and
• Supplier of "best-of-breed" bar code data collection products and peripherals, such as radio frequency data collection systems, both laser and CCD scanners, printers, ribbons, labels, and magnetic stripe readers.

To support this expanded corporate mission, Compsee's Electronic Response and Information Center, located at www.compsee.com, embraces state-of-the-art web technology to better serve the information needs of its customers.

"This dynamic web portal integrates voice, video and data to create a Compsee community and virtual company where it will be very easy for visitors to find what they need," said Billy Graham, VP Marketing. The entire site is searchable for ease of use. "When you visit ERIC, it will be like a busy harbor with cargo ships of containerized data." Visitors will be able to navigate the waters themselves, or simply sit back, watch and listen as a Compsee representative or VAR guides them through an on-line presentation of Compsee's total solutions capabilities".

ERIC will make Compsee a virtual company. "All the information a customer or a VAR needs to do business with Compsee will be available on ERIC. The video and voice enhanced data will be accessible from anywhere," said Graham.

Through ERIC, visitors can tour successful installations via video or text, learn about products and services offered by Compsee and its suppliers, and even download demos of Compsee's automatic data capture products.

The real-time portal features enhanced Powerpoint presentations and white papers with voice accompaniment to make learning easier and faster. Educational resources cover communications networking, such as radio frequency data communications (RF/DC), and host connectivity issues. A calendar of seminars and trade shows, as well as links to software updates, are also located on ERIC.

"Reseller-only accessible areas provide our strategic partners with a variety of detailed sales support tools and information, training presentations, and more. In the near future, we will add chat functionality and provide weekly and monthly seminars and presentations," Graham concluded.

Compsee is a national, total-solutions provider dedicated to embracing the latest technology to better serve medium- to large-sized companies with automatic data capture solutions that increase accuracy and productivity. Compsee offers a technically trained, in-house staff and team of carefully selected value-added resellers to provide customized software and flexible systems integration services.

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