Bentley Commerce Launches Its First Asian Pacific Online Trade Exchange Through an Alliance with the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 1, 2004

Bentley Commerce Corporation (OTCBB:BLYC) the leader in online barter and trade, has launched an online barter exchange with the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce, a non-profit organization of about 6,600 entrepreneurs, executives and leaders from across the globe that are engaged in trade and industry within the Pacific Rim region of the world.

"We believe that this is a major step in expanding Bentley Commerce's growing online global trade marketplace into Asia, and especially China, the world's fastest growing economy," said Gordon Lee, Bentley Commerce Chairman, who engineered the alliance with Holmes Stoner, Chairmen of the Pacific Rim Chamber of Commerce. "Through Online barter and trade, companies both here and in Asia will enjoy access to new markets, entrance to thousands of customers and be able to trade their excess inventory and capacity for an extraordinary range of products and services to operate their businesses, while conserving precious cash."

Bentley Commerce (www.bentleycommerce.com) is sharing in the revenue derived from trading on the Pacific Rim Trade Exchange. It is providing its VirtualBarter trade exchange management software and global trade marketplace for the new exchange located online at www.pacrim.vbarter.com. It will host and manage the exchange, provide customer service and have its team of experienced trade consultants assist Pacific Rim members to learn about barter and trade opportunities. Most important, members of the new Pacific Rim Trade Exchange can participate in the Bentley Crump Barter Network, a collaborative trading network of 180 trade exchanges and 50,000 mostly North American businesses that trade through them.

About Bentley Commerce Corporation:

Bentley Commerce Corp. is a business-to-business, Internet e-commerce company that seeks to establish a new marketplace and distribution channel for worldwide barter and trade. Through the development of a seamlessly integrated family of online barter services, it envisions that most barter transactions can be handled over the Internet in real time, with its proprietary VirtualBarter software. Bentley intends to serve as a clearinghouse for barter trades for Fortune 500 trading partners, scores of existing retail barter exchanges that serve companies of all sizes, corporate barter companies that serve large multinational corporations, trade associations and their member companies, as well as media and travel agencies.

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