ARCHOS Appoints Hyder Rabbani to President and Chief Operating Officer.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 3, 2003

Innovative Product Line and Growing Market Opportunity Attract

Intel Executive to Top Consumer Electronics Company

ARCHOS Inc., a global provider and industry pioneer of innovative handheld entertainment and storage solutions, announced today the appointment of Hyder Rabbani to president and chief operating officer. Rabbani will report to Henri Crohas, ARCHOS founder, chairman and chief executive officer, and will be based in the company's Irvine, Calif., office.

Rabbani holds 17 years' experience in management, sales, channel marketing and business development in the technology industry, and more than 10 years driving global sales and strategic alliances for consumer products at Intel. While with Intel, Rabbani oversaw the company's Europe, Middle East and Africa sales organizations and grew revenues more than 270 percent in 18 months. Rabbani's work resulted in 20 percent market share growth, dramatically reduced costs, a complete and successful restructuring of the sales channel, and the largest business development deal for the camera line in Intel's history -- a bundle agreement with Microsoft.

At ARCHOS, Rabbani will direct the company's aggressive growth, centered on its award-winning audio, video and storage devices such as the popular Cinema-to-Go and ARCDisk lines. Rabbani's operational efficiency, leadership and effective sales and channel management will help ARCHOS accelerate the distribution and production of their latest and most innovative products.

"We could not have found a more experienced and effective leader to extend ARCHOS' success in the consumer electronics market," said Crohas. "Hyder has an impressive record of achieving high growth, market segment leadership and phenomenal customer service, which will have an immediate and positive impact on our business."

Rabbani joins ARCHOS from MUSICMATCH, a global leader in digital music software and services. With MUSICMATCH, Rabbani was vice president of sales and business development, responsible for the worldwide channel, and the negotiations, marketing and engineering for all OEM programs. His work at the digital music leader resulted in some of the company's largest and most strategic business alliances, and broad expansion of the company's channel program.

"ARCHOS is in the unique position of being an industry pioneer with a long history of innovation -- at a time when the consumer electronics industry is exploding," said Rabbani. "I am stepping into a tremendous opportunity with one of the most impressive portable entertainment companies today, and I'm thrilled to give ARCHOS the management to move it aggressively forward."

ARCHOS is exhibiting at RetailVision Fall in Phoenix, Sept. 2-5, 2003, and is available for meetings and product demonstrations in the Grand Canyon Ballroom, Salon 8. ARCHOS will unveil the latest products in its audio, video and storage lines, with an advanced showing of the new ARCDisk storage device. To schedule a meeting with Rabbani, please contact Samantha Steinwinder at 206-713-6983 (cellular), [e-mail].

About ARCHOS

Founded in 1988, ARCHOS designs and manufactures the industry's most innovative handheld entertainment solutions and data storage peripherals for people on the go. ARCHOS is considered an industry pioneer in the growing MP3 consumer market, with a line of audio, video and storage devices that suit a variety of interests and price points. ARCHOS has received numerous awards for its innovative product design, including "Best in Show" and "Best in Portable Video" at the 2003 Consumer Electronics Show, and "Best Product: Hardware" at the 2003 European Retail Vision conference. The company is based in Paris, France, with U.S. headquarters in Irvine, Calif. Company information and products are available at www.archos.com.

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