Companies Use Intershop Marketplace Toolkit to Launch Electronic Marketplaces.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO and BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000

Intershop Communications, Inc., the world's leading provider of electronic commerce applications software and solutions, today announced customers wins for electronic marketplaces using the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit.

The Intershop Marketplace Toolkit is a best-in-class set of products and technologies for building, selling to and enabling the operation of electronic marketplaces on the Internet. It supports a variety of marketplace oriented business models with Sell Anywhere capabilities, and targeting sellers, market makers and marketplace ASPs. For more information on the components of the Intershop marketplace Toolkit, please see separate release.

"We expect global markets to rapidly embrace electronic marketplaces over the next two years. The hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions that will flow through these new channels will attract many new market entrants as well as industry partnerships and coalitions. The resulting competitive pressures will force organizations to embrace true solutions that can be deployed in an expedient manner," said Kent Allen, Senior Research Analyst, Electronic Commerce for Aberdeen Group. "By offering a complete set of tools which are developed on standards-based architecture, Intershop can leverage its established global leadership position in the sell-side application space to capture a significant share of the global marketplace business."

Numerous companies worldwide are already using the Intershop Marketplace Toolkit to develop and deploy marketplace solutions for various industries:

TradeWind of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, (www.tradewindcorp.com) uses Intershop enfinity to develop a vertical supply chain management marketplace for the office supply MRO industry, eliminating redundancies and thereby lowering costs and increasing convenience of procurement online.

Eventory, of Bedford, Mass., (www.eventory.com) deployed a sell-side marketplace (www.localmro.com) for the Maintenance Repair and Operations supply industry. Eventory's solution, based on Intershop ePages, offers rapidly deployable storefronts for industrial distributors who want to sell to their customers online.

B2Buildingsupplies of Passaic, New Jersey, (www.b2buildingsupplies.com) develops a sell side marketplace based on Intershop enfinity that streamlines the order management and procurement process for construction businesses.

MarketJazz Inc., of San Diego, Calif., (www.marketjazz.com) is a seller-centric business-to-business marketplace built on Intershop's enfinity. MarketJazz serves vertical industries including automotive and power tools and specializes in the sales and distribution of direct materials to multiple marketplaces such as CommerceOne

Using Intershop enfinity, Efoodmanager of Duesseldorf, Germany, (www.efoodmanager.com) built the first pan-European business-to-business marketplace for the entire food industry. Eliminating time-consuming searches and accelerating sales, efoodmanager enables international markets to be opened easily and cost effectively, reducing processing and product costs by as much as 30%.

GloMediX of Munich, Germany, (www.glomedix.com) is an international B2B marketplace using enfinity to create an online marketplace for suppliers, hospitals, rehabilitation clinics, skilled nursing facilities and eventually a network of physicians, complete with transaction, content and community functionality.

Goodax, of Hamburg, Germany, (www.goodax.com) is a business-to-business exchange developed on Intershop enfinity for industrial goods and services with strong customer focus. Goodax builds on professional purchasing practice to focus more on customer needs, rather than an anonymous, one-size-fits-all, automated solution.

Mercateo of Munich, Germany, (www.mercateo.com), is a business-to-business e-procurement marketplace for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), developed on Intershop enfinity. Bundling of purchase orders results in large discounts for small and medium-sized customer businesses.

About Intershop Communications, Inc.

Intershop Communications is the world's fastest growing provider of e-commerce software and solutions for the enterprise. Intershop software offers the quickest time-to-market today with the greatest flexibility for tomorrow. Intershop e-commerce solutions enable customers to "Sell Anywhere" by supporting the widest range of current and rapidly emerging e-commerce business models.

With more than 100,000 licenses sold worldwide, Intershop customers include some of the world's largest commerce service providers and enterprises such as AltaVista, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom, Go2Net, Mindspring, Nortel, PSINet, U S West Dex, Bosch, Canon USA, Columbia-Tri Star, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard, Kraft, Lufthansa, Mercedes Benz U.S. International, Motorola, Sony and Waterstone's. Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Sweden, Finland, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

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