Bentley Commerce to Reduce Current Expenses by $1 Million, Restructures Corporate Team and Creates Exchange Advisory Board.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2004

Bentley Commerce Corp. (OTCBB:BLYC), the leader in Internet-based barter and trade, will reduce current operating costs by approximately $1 million annually by restructuring and consolidating its operations, and has terminated a number of employment and consulting contracts. In addition, Bentley Commerce (www.bentleycommerce.com) introduced a wide range of management procedures and financial controls at a special meeting of its board of directors and inaugurated a trade exchange advisory board comprised of seven barter industry professionals.

Gordon Lee, Bentley Commerce's chairman, resigned as CFO, treasurer and secretary. Bruce Kamm, Bentley's CEO, will also now serve as interim CFO and treasurer. Robert Schumacher, its president and COO will also serve as corporate secretary. Mr. Lee, who had been dividing his time between Bentley Commerce and American IDC Corp. (OTC:ACNI), a company he heads, will focus on American IDC Corp. (www.americanidc.com). As a result, Mr. Lee's employment and consulting agreements with Bentley Commerce have been terminated, as well as the consulting agreement for his support staff.

"Bentley Commerce's future is in the hands of a superbly competent and dedicated management team," said Mr. Lee. "In the short time they have been with the company, they transformed it from a concept to the leadership position in online barter and trade. Since beginning the year as an operating company, Bentley Commerce has grown to include 64 independent trade exchanges online using its virtual barter software with approximately 12,000 companies that trade through them and about half a billion dollars of products and services available for trade in its online global trade marketplace. In addition, its collaborative trading network subsidiary, Bentley Crump Barter Network, has 180 trade exchanges and about 50,000 members that trade through them off-line."

About Bentley Commerce Corporation:

Bentley Commerce Corp. is a business-to-business, Internet e-commerce Company establishing 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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