March 12, 2002

Expanded Web Site Launched

North Andover, MA

A significantly updated IMS web site opened for business March 7, 2002, follow months of careful design and development. The site features the first phase in IMS' strategy to integrate its clients' and customers web sites with its internal product database, as well as to provide fresh marketing and trade-related content on an ongoing basis. Besides showcasing technology and design, the new site opens the door for meaningful interaction between IMS' clients at various steps in their supply chain through tested, open technologies.

Founded in 1986, IMS has amassed extensive expertise developing joint ventures between companies in the U.S., Canada, Russia and other European countries, as well as promoting export of industrial products from manufacturers in all of those regions.

Since 1999, IMS has promoted development of advanced, captivating multimedia online marketing via its subsidiary, Polar Design (www.polardesign.com). Polar Design has complemented its design with equally creative technical experimentation, primarily focused on delivering flexible content management solutions for a wide range of manufacturers.

This spread of backgrounds, skill sets and technologies merge in the current site to provide the following:

• Case studies exposing key international marketing issues to visitors by drawing on IMS' 15+_years of expertise in the international marketing space
• Integration of IMS' product catalogue with 3rd party product catalogues, particularly its customers, via a combination of XML technologies
• Access to real-time information, beginning with exchange rates (phase 2 plans include exchange-rate adjusted pricing on a range of commodities and trade-related services)
• Product catalogue syndication system: clients can readily distribute their product information via IMS' system to distributors' catalogues and a growing list of 3rd party web sites

October 17, 2001

IMS Closes Engineered Equipment Sale to Russian Customer

North Andover, MA

Following nine months of research, technical document development and negotiation, IMS successfully closed a sale of flexible duct making machinery between a Canadian client and a Russian client. Acting in the capacity of market and technical consultant as well as facilitating the transaction, IMS assisted both parties complete this complex sale that will provide our Russian client new manufacturing capabilities that complement its installation service in the Moscow region.