Cala/Mancini Announces Expansion Strategies.

Business Editors

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 20, 2001

Joseph Cala, Chairman and CEO of Cala Corporation (OTCBB: CCAA), and Quirino Caparrelli, General Manager of Mancini IMOIL, http://www.imoil.com, announced today they would be opening their new offices in mid May in the San Francisco/Bay Area, to begin marketing their products.

Cala/Mancini will be using the marketing expertise of Information Resources, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., http://www.infores.com, (NASDAQ:IRIC) to strategically place the company at the forefront of a vast technology network. Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) is a leading sales and marketing research partner in the expanding global consumer goods industry. They provide clients superior consumer insight and market intelligence by leveraging competitive advantages in robust data, industry-leading research and analytic techniques, innovative Web delivery technology, and quality client service. For many clients, IRI now provides international data services covering over 20 countries, with data delivered in consistent formats and supported by an international service team. Their clients includes: Anheuser-Busch, Nabisco, Johnson & Johnson, Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo, Unilever HPCE, as well as top retailers, brokers and the financial community. IRI has an active presence in markets where 80 percent of the world's market research dollars are spent, including operations in the United States, Europe, Latin America and several other international countries.

In addition Cala/Mancini have begun their work on a restaurant chain to be called Mancini's, which will feature Mancini olive oil products, to insure greater exposure to the product line throughout the United States. Mancini Olive Oil is distributed in the United States by Manzo Foods, Miami, Florida under the labeling of Genesio, which is sold to Romano's Macaroni Grill Restaurants a division of Brinker International, http://www.brinker.com, (NYSE:EAT).

Mancini IMOIL, enjoying more than 40 years of production and sales of olive oil products has annualized revenues of approximately $20,000,000. US, $6,000,000 US of which is realized currently in the United States. Mancini's asset base exceeds $21,000,000 US, while liabilities are approximately $3,000,000. US.

Cala Corporation will be filing its Form 10-K, Annual Report by 4/23/01, and is in the process of filing an 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The information in this news release includes certain forward-looking statements As defined in the "Safe Harbor" provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon assumptions that are subject To significant risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the Expectations reflected in forward-looking statements are reasonable it can give no assurance that the expectations of any of its forward-looking statements will prove to be correct. This press release was prepared on behalf of the Board of Directors, which accepts full responsibility for its contents.