Electrolux Home Products Selects ARI To Provide Electronic Parts Catalog.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2001

Selection Allows ARI to Meet Growing Dealer Demand for "AYP" Catalog

ARI Network Services, Inc. (OTCBB:ARIS), a leading provider of technology-enabled business solutions that connect equipment manufacturers with their service and distribution networks announced today that Electrolux Home Products (EHP) has selected ARI's PartSmart(TM) electronic parts catalog software to provide their Lawn & Garden products catalog information to its dealers nationwide. This includes products manufactured in EHP factories that were formerly know as "AYP".

Under the agreement, EHP's over 8,000 dealers and service centers nationwide will have access to illustrated parts catalogs and up-to-date, accurate parts and pricing information. EHP makes rotary mowers, tillers, tractors, wheeled trimmers as well as, chainsaws, line trimmers, leaf blowers and hedge trimmers.

"We recognized the need to provide our dealers with the tools that they need to be successful in today's economy," said Chris Smith, marketing manager for Electrolux. "After a close look at the features and functionality that ARI's PartSmart software provides, the decision was easy. We believe that PartSmart will provide our dealers with a user-friendly system that will make it easier for them to identify and order the correct part the first time, allowing them to improve service, increase productivity and decrease costs," added Smith.

"We're very excited to add Electrolux Home Products and its well-known Poulan, WeedEater and Poulan Pro brands to our list of `blue chip' customers in the outdoor power equipment industry," said Brian E. Dearing, chairman and chief executive officer of ARI. "For some time now, our current PartSmart dealer base has been requesting the "AYP" catalog. It has always been ARI's goal not only to provide an excellent electronic parts catalog, but also to provide individual manufacturer catalogs that dealers need to be successful. We expect that once we notify our dealer base that EHP's lawn & garden brands are now available, they will rapidly add them to their current catalog subscriptions," concluded Dearing.

The Electrolux Group is the world's largest producer of powered appliances for kitchen, cleaning and outdoor use. More than 55 million Electrolux Group products (such as refrigerators, cookers, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, chain saws and lawn mowers) are sold each year to a value of approximately 14 billion USD in more than 150 countries around the world.

ARI Network Services, Inc. is a leading provider of technology-enabled business solutions for sales, service and life-cycle product support in the manufactured equipment market. ARI currently serves over 100 manufacturers and 20,000 dealers in more than 100 countries in 12 segments of the worldwide manufactured equipment market including outdoor power, recreation vehicle, floor maintenance, auto and truck parts aftermarket, power sports, marine and construction. The Company builds and supports a full suite of multi-media electronic catalog publishing and viewing software for the Web or CD. ARI communications systems provide a global electronic pathway for parts orders, product registrations, warranty claims and other transactions between manufacturers and their networks of sales and service points. ARI also provides a template-based dealer website service that makes it quick and easy for an equipment dealer to have a professional and attractive website. ARI currently operates three offices in the United States and one in Europe and has sales and service agents in Australia, England and France providing marketing and support of its electronic catalog and dealer communications.