BOS Appoints New Chairman and Approves a Cost Reduction Plan.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TERADYON, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 2003 B.O.S. Better On-Line Solutions Ltd. ("BOS" or the "Company") (Nasdaq:BOSC), (TASE TASE Tel Aviv Stock Exchange TASE The All Seeing Eye TASE Tactical Air Support Element TASE Thrust Assessment Support Environment TASE Telecontrol Application Service Elements (IEC communications protocol) :BOS) announced today that Mr. Edouard Cukierman has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors in place of Mr. Zvi Greengold. Mr. Greengold shall remain a director of the Company and serve as Chairman of the Israeli subsidiary, Boscom Ltd. The Company's Board of Directors has also approved the implementation of a cost reduction plan in order to improve its operational results in the second half of 2003. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the plan, the Company will cut its R&D and marketing expenses, by closing non profitable sales offices around the world, renegotiating its supplier agreements and undergo salary cuts. The Company expects that these cuts will reduce the expenses by over $600K per quarter. In addition, the Company announced that it received notice from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel that it has complied with all requirements set forth in the Panel's decision dated April 30, 2003, for the continued listing on the Nasdaq National Market. The new Chairman, Mr. Edouard Cukierman, commented: "We have resolved to turn the Company profitable by the end of 2003, by focusing on the marketing of our connectivity and IP products on the one hand, and reducing costs on the other hand. We believe in Boscom's technology and intend to develop the activities of Boscom through a number of strategies, including via new financing." Mr. Edouard Cukierman, 38, is the Chairman of Cukierman & Co. Investment House and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the Catalyst Fund, the Company's largest shareholder. He served until March 2000 as General Manager of Astra Technological Investment Ltd., the first Israeli firm listed in Paris. Edouard Cukierman is on the board of numerous High-Tech companies including VCON and MTI MTI Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore) MTI Metal Treating Institute MTI Moving Target Indicator (radar) MTI Magyar Távirati Iroda (news agency in Budapest, Hungary) . He is also a board member of Lamina Technologies in Switzerland, of Compagnie Financiere Otto in Paris, a French investment house and the Vice Chairman of Citec Environnement in France. In addition, Mr. Cukierman is on the board of Sar-El, an Israeli Defense Forces volunteer organization. Mr. Cukierman holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD INSEAD Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (European Institute for Business Administration; now know simply as INSEAD) INSEAD I Never Stop Eating And Drinking , Fontainebleau, France and a B.Sc. from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology. About BOS Through its wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. , BOScom, the Company develops, produces and markets technologically complex, multi-functional, cross-enterprise communication and networking products. Marketed under the BOSaNOVA brand, these products are renowned for their simplicity of use, quality, and reliability. The IP Telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. line offers innovative convergence migration solutions that leverage a corporation's existing equipment infrastructure. The legacy line provides solutions for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) midrange-to-PC and LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. connectivity and GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. emulation, and printing solutions that are operating system-independent. BOS was established in 1990 and became a public company traded on the NASDAQ National Market in 1996 (Nasdaq:BOSC), and on the Tel Aviv Tel Aviv (tĕl əvēv`), city (1994 pop. 355,200), W central Israel, on the Mediterranean Sea. Oficially named Tel Aviv–Jaffa, it is Israel's commercial, financial, communications, and cultural center and the core of its largest Stock Market in 2002 (TASE:BOS). Please visit our website, http://www.boscorporate.com The forward-looking statements contained herein reflect management's current views with respect to future events and financial performance. These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, all of which are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the control of BOS, including, but not limited to, those risks and uncertainties detailed in BOS' periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: In the name BOSaNOVA, there should be a caret symbol over the 'a' in the middle of the word. |
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