SAN DIEGO - August 1, 2003 – Trade Service, the leading source of complete content management and information solutions, announced today that it has re-entered the distributor catalog business, employing new technologies that extends the usability of product content beyond the printed page. Trade Service’s new offering, Distributor Catalog™, allows distributors to leverage their investment in content to develop a comprehensive catalog marketing program for their business, including the ability to create an Internet storefront, robust marketing collateral, special product promotions, and more.

Because of its over 70 years of experience aggregating, formatting, and publishing catalogs, it was a natural progression for Trade Service to re-emerge as a multi-pronged catalog solutions provider. “It has always been our mission at Trade Service to evolve with the needs of our distributor customers. Because they were looking for alternative ways to market their business in the ‘90s, we responded by putting our catalog business on the back burner,” said Robert Stone, Director of Product Development at Trade Service. “During that hiatus, we invested in new technology and operational processes to perfect our catalog production service. Today we are able to provide distributors with the most effective and convenient means to show their customers their complete product line through the new Distributor Catalog™ program.”

About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, government agencies and “buy side” Fortune 1000 subscribers. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.