Apple Scientific Partners With Transactiv for E-commerce Solution; Major Supplier Goes Online to Facilitate Supply Chain via the Internet.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998--Transactiv, Inc., the leader in worldwide supply chain automation, based in Seattle, today announced a partnership with Apple Scientific, a prominent distributor of laboratory equipment and supplies, to strengthen its supply chain and distribution channels, dramatically expanding Apple Scientific's range of products and customer services.

"We're excited about the opportunity to partner with Transactiv," says Craig Lucas, vice president, Apple Scientific. "We'll now be able to hugely broaden our customer base electronically -- something we could never do if we were trying to reach new customers ourselves. Faxes and face-to-face interaction is the old fashioned way, and isn't nearly as productive for us. Transactiv is the wave of the present. Not being part of their automated supply chain means being caught in the undertow for us."

Apple Scientific, founded in 1981 and based in Chesterland, Ohio, is a full-line distributor of laboratory equipment and supplies, offering over 200,000 products via their online catalog. Currently they service 7,000 customers in the United States. Apple Scientific can be located on the Internet at www.AppleSci.com.

"Using Labmarket(tm), our Supply Chain Extranet(tm), Apple Scientific will be able to provide a much stronger and faster conduit for trade," says Transactiv President, Robert Cartwright. "Our automated, turnkey technology will now allow Apple Scientific to focus globally, not just domestically. They can now cast a much wider net."

Transactiv is the fast-growing leader in worldwide supply chain automation services for end-to-end processes and electronic commerce transactions. Using its Supply Chain Extranet, Transactiv links organizations with their trading partners in an Internet-based supply chain and processes all their commercial transactions in a highly secure manner. Partners achieve enhanced productivity, reduced costs, improved customer satisfaction and increased sales, including an additional sales channel.

Transactiv was created in 1996 by a group of Seattle-area technology and life science executives. It has received financial support from many well-respected high-tech investors, most notably several Microsoft executives and some of the original and most significant backers of Amazon.com. The company is located at 214 E. Galer, Suite 210, Seattle, Washington, 98102. The corporate web site is www.transactiv.com and its laboratory Supply Chain Extranet, Labmarket, is www.labmarket.com.