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Noosh, Inc. Signs Eight User Agreements with Keys Printing Customers Including Advantica, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Dunlop to Utilize the noosh.com Communication and Collaboration Service for Print Procurement and Management

14 Consolidated Graphics Printers Across the U.S. Implement noosh.com

 

PALO ALTO, CA and GREENVILLE, SC- May 25, 2000 - Noosh, Inc., a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the printing industry, and Keys Printing, a Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: CGX) company, today jointly announced that Noosh has signed user agreements with eight major customers of Keys Printing. Keys Printing is one of 14 Consolidated Graphics locations nation-wide that are currently implementing the noosh.com service with their customers.

This latest group of companies joining the noosh.com user base cross multiple industries and include organizations of varying sizes, both profit and non-profit. Three of Key's larger customers that have signed user agreements include Dunlop Slazenger Group Americas, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Advantica (owner of Denny's restaurants). Dunlop Slazenger Group Americas plans to use noosh.com for promotional and docutech work for their golf and tennis brands. Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans to use noosh.com for all docutech work out of its headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina. Advantica will be using the noosh.com service for marketing materials, docutech work and some menus.

Other Keys Printing customers among the eight that will begin implementing the noosh.com service include valve company, Compact Air, and non-profit organization, the American Leprosy Missions (ALM International).

"We are extremely excited to not only welcome companies like Advantica, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and Dunlop to our user base, but to also see our joint marketing agreement with Consolidated Graphics and their printers come full circle," said Ofer Ben-Shachar, chairman and CEO, Noosh, Inc. "The noosh.com service provides benefits for both printers and print buyers and these new relationships are an excellent example of that."

"At Keys Printing, we are very excited to be using the noosh.com service to work with our customers," said Ben Keys, president of Keys Printing. "We plan on using noosh.com as our number one marketing tool for the year 2000."

Joe R. Davis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Graphics comments, "Consistent with the expectations of our previously released marketing alliance with Noosh, the results at Keys Printing demonstrate our commitment to continuously provide the highest quality of service and efficiencies to our customers utilizing the Internet's expansive advantages and capabilities."

The user agreements will enable Keys Printing customers to access noosh.com Live Jobs SM collaborative technology, enabling print buyers to track the flow of specifications, design and text; manage changes; track content delivery; and organize files online and in real time. Implementing the noosh.com collaborative workflow system helps to streamline communications, improve accountability and provide for exceptional customer service for Keys Printing and its customers.

The 14 Consolidated Graphics printers that are currently implementing the noosh.com service are spread across the U.S. and include: Automated Graphic Systems, Bridgetown Printing Co., CMI, Direct Color, Emerald City Graphics/Heath Printers, Ironwood Lithographers, Keys Printing, Metropolitan Printing Service, Multiple Images Printing, Inc., John C. Otto, Lincoln Printing Corp., Paragraphics, Superior Colour Graphics and Wetzel Brothers.

About Keys Printing Co.
Keys Printing Co., of Greenville, South Carolina, provides a complete range of printing services including electronic pre-press, up to six-color printing and post-press capabilities. Keys Printing serves the Greenville/Spartanburg region in South Carolina, the state's largest print market, and was acquired by Consolidated Graphics in November 1999.

About Consolidated Graphics
Consolidated Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: CGX) is the largest sheet-fed commercial printing company in the United States. Its printing companies produce high-quality color printed products for a broad customer base that includes many of the most recognized corporations in the world. Serving over 10,000 customers, Consolidated Graphics stresses service and quality in the production of all varieties of marketing and promotional materials, from annual reports to product brochures to training manuals.

About Noosh, Inc.
Noosh, Inc. (www.noosh.com) was founded in 1998 with the goal of creating the industry's leading business-to-business Internet-based communication and collaboration service for enterprise critical printing. Noosh.com, powered by Live Jobs SM collaborative technology, is designed to help dramatically improve the process of buying, selling and managing print. Leveraging the power of the Internet, noosh.com helps strengthen buyer-printer relationships by providing a collaborative environment where corporate buyers, printers, creative agencies and others in the supply chain of vendors can work together efficiently to manage complex corporate printing from conception to delivery, in real time.

Noosh and Live Jobs are the trademark and service mark, respectively, of Noosh, Inc. Other trademarks appearing in this release are the property of their holders


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