Tokheim Selects Fuel Links to Deliver Loyalty Platform for New POS.

Business Editors

FORT WAYNE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2002

Tokheim Corporation (OTCBB:THMC) today announced that it has selected Fuel Links, Inc. as its preferred partner to offer a loyalty solution with its latest Windows(R) NT-based point-of-sale system. Tokheim has recognized the requirements from convenience store operators for an integrated loyalty solution like those used by the High Volume Retailers (HVRs). The Fuel Links loyalty software allows service station operators to offer a variety of customer loyalty-based programs. These include at-the-dispenser fuel price rebates linked to in-store purchases, as well as points-based programs that allow the retailers to track customer purchases and offer tailored rewards for frequent purchases.

John Hamilton, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tokheim Corporation, said: "We selected Fuel Links because they share our vision of offering scaleable solutions, which can easily be integrated with existing hardware. Fuel Links is the leading provider to the HVR market in the United States of loyalty solutions that link gasoline purchases with in-store sales. It was a natural evolution for Fuel Links to expand their business into the service station c-store marketplace. We are delighted to be able to work with them to offer this state-of-the-art loyalty software to our customers."

Jason Stancil, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fuel Links, said: "Tokheim is a strong partner for our entry into the convenience store market. Their vision of offering an integrated loyalty solution with their latest dispensers and point-of-sale systems matched perfectly with our plan to enter this market. We believe that our platform, when integrated to their new POS system, will provide the most innovative and sophisticated marketing solution available to c-store operators today. In today's highly competitive gasoline retailing world, we believe that service station operators will welcome the opportunity to be able to reward their most loyal and profitable customers."

Fuel Links, Inc., based in Irving, Texas, provides integrated solutions for retail point-of-sale systems for gasoline operators in the high volume retail and convenience store industries. Fuel Links develops enterprise software to deliver integrated gasoline operations via existing retail point-of-sale-systems. Its web-based administration and reporting tool provides real-time data and information to high volume retailers' gasoline operations regarding, among other things, site status, sales data, and promotions redemption. Fuel Links' solution delivers flexible, highly scalable loyalty programs to both high volume retailers and convenience store chains.

Tokheim Corporation, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is one of the world's leading providers of fuel dispensing solutions. Tokheim Corporation designs, manufactures and services electronic and mechanical petroleum dispensing systems. These systems include petroleum dispensers and pumps, retail automation systems (such as point-of-sale systems), dispenser payment terminals, replacement parts, and upgrade kits.