BOL.com Signs e-Commerce Fulfillment Contract With DOCdata Media Services.

TILBURG, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1999--

BOL.com (a Bertelsmann AG company) and DOCdata Media Services (a DOCdata NV company) are pleased to announce that they have concluded an agreement whereby DOCdata Media Services will become the exclusive fulfillment partner for the Dutch web-site of BOL.com for all cd's video's, cd-rom, console games, and combined book/multi-media orders.

DOCdata Media Services, originally a producer of cd's and cd-roms, started in 1997 its "one-stop shopping supply chain management" concept, offering a complete range of pre-production, production, product fulfillment, distribution and order (e-commerce) fulfillment services to customers in the music and multi media industry. Two years ago, DOCdata decided to invest seriously in the fast growing market of e-commerce. DOCdata wants to become a leading fulfillment provider for companies who sell their products through the internet.

To this end a fully-automated stock receiving, maintenance, picking, sorting and packing system has been designed. Phase One of this system, a fully automated sorting system, will be operational this month. The new sorting system is designed to handle large volumes (up to 28,000 units per hour) of all sorts of home entertainment products including books as well as small, sensitive high-tech electronic equipment like mobile phones, organizers, game computers etc. In addition, DOCdata Media Services has been customizing its IT system to meet the needs of e-commerce fulfillment. DOCdata Media Services is now able to rapidly implement a full range of fulfillment services for new e-commerce customers.

In January 1999 BOL.com started selling books via Internet. Within its first few months of operations, BOL.com has built a leading market position. BOL.com will substantially expand their product range in November to include the sale of cd, dvd, cd-rom, video, and console game products via their web-site. For all these new products, BOL.com contracted DOCdata Media Services for the complete range of fulfillment services.

For DOCdata Media Services, this new contract with a leading e-commerce company is an important step in realizing its strategic goal to be market leader in e-commerce fulfillment for home entertainment products in Europe.

DOCdata Media Services is part of the DOCdata group. DOCdata N.V. is a leading independent service provider to the audio and multi media publishers, wholesalers and retailers, software, E-commerce and direct marketing and telecommunication industries with facilities in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Germany and the United States. DOCdata N.V. is listed on the Amsterdam Exchanges (AEX) and on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the ticker symbol DOCD.

BOL (Bertelsmann Online) is the international e-commerce company of Bertelsmann AG. With a turnover of 28 billion DM, it is the fourth largest media concern in the world. In addition to BOL Netherlands, there are BOL-shops in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Switzerland. At the moment the shops sell books, soon CDs and videos will follow. Bertelsmann's goal is to be the most international media company in the world. Starting out in book, newspaper and magazine publishing, they are now focussing more on music, television, online, film and radio activities. In total, Bertelsmann employs more than 60,000 people in 50 countries.