BrandPartners' Willey Brothers Subsidiary Signs New Contract With Wells Fargo.

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Willey Brothers, a BrandPartners Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:BPTR) company, today announced that it has signed a two-year service agreement to furnish Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) with merchandising products and services throughout its retail network.

This contract continues an ongoing relationship with Wells Fargo.

Wells Fargo is a diversified financial services company with $308 billion in assets providing banking, insurance, wealth management and estate planning, investments, mortgage and consumer finance from more than 5,400 stores.

The purpose of the contract is to assist Wells Fargo in standardizing its merchandising inventory purchasing operations. In addition, Willey Brothers will develop and maintain an automated Wells Fargo ordering website.

BrandPartners Executive Vice President Ed Stolarski commented: "We are excited to be continuing this very successful relationship with such a well respected partner as Wells Fargo. Willey Brothers has enjoyed a three-year relationship with Wells Fargo through several projects including the implementation of a merchandising system in 2,000 Wells Fargo retail branches."

"This achievement serves as a testament to Willey Brothers' superior reputation and expertise in this arena," continued Mr. Stolarski. "The Wells Fargo contract was won through a bidding process with twenty competing vendors. We are pleased to sustain the momentum of the quarter with another significant deal and plan to continue to market aggressively."

BrandPartners Group, Inc (www.bptr.com) currently operates through Willey Brothers, Inc., a fully owned subsidiary providing merchandising, branch planning and design, and creative services and iMapData, a majority owned subsidiary, which provides data based solutions.

Willey Brothers, Inc., provides merchandising, branch planning and design, and creative services for financial services companies.

(This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on the Company's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, estimated or projected. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the Company's ability to identify appropriate acquisition candidates, complete such acquisitions and successfully integrate acquired businesses; changes in the Company's business strategies or development plans; effects of competition; the Company's anticipated growth within the financial services industry; the Company's ability to obtain sufficient financing to continue operations; and general economic and business conditions, both nationally and in the regions in which the Company operates. These and other risks and uncertainties are disclosed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the "Forward-Looking Statements" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2000, in the Company's press releases and in oral statements made by or with the approval of authorized personnel. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments. )