World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara Partners with E-Merge Strategies

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Josh Gibbons

Tel: (716) 847-8170

Fax: (716) 847-8625

E-Merge Strategies, Inc.

617 Main St.

Buffalo, NY 14203

jgibbons@emerge-us.com

www.emerge-us.com

WORLD TRADE CENTER BUFFALO NIAGARA PARTNERS WITH E-MERGE STRATEGIES

E-Merge Strategies to Provide Multilingual Project Management Tool to Local WTC Members

BUFFALO, NY -- February 26, 2000 -- The World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara has announced a partnership with E-Merge Strategies, a Buffalo based multilingual development firm with offices in Boulder, Colorado and Tokyo, Japan. The relationship will allow E-Merge Strategies to provide their web-based language management system, Transmerge, to the World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara membership. The software serves as a multilingual project management tool for companies doing business internationally. According to Holly Sinnott, Executive Director of the World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara, We are very excited both to partner with E-Merge Strategies and to be able to offer our membership such an innovative product that will give them a competitive edge when doing business in fast-paced global environments."

E-Merges partnership with World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara has enabled them to offer preferred pricing to World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara members in an effort to help Buffalos industry base effectively manage the strategic process of marketing overseas in foreign languages. Tom McManus, E-Merges Senior Account Executive said, We have identified the difficulties associated with multilingual projects and are proud to offer fellow World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara members a solution that helps them compete in the global marketplace."

Transmerge is project management solution used for the orchestration of multilingual projects between various locations and participants through the use of a single centralized application. The platform-independent software offers customizable document input and output functionality, linguistic database storage capabilities, secure user access, and audit/reporting administrative capabilities supported by E-Merges world-class level of customer service. Transmerge hastens multilingual materials to international markets, enabling firms to rapidly exploit global opportunities.

Founded in 1993 in Buffalo, NY, E-Merge Strategies is a leading multilingual service provider offering a wide range of services to global companies. E-Merge's ASP division offers clients web-based language management software as a cost-effective solution to global content publishing. Combining analysis, linguistics, graphic development services and site production, E-Merge is able to help companies reach their full international market potential. For more information, visit http://www.emerge-us.com or to schedule a demonstration, please call (716) 847-8170.

The World Trade Center Buffalo Niagara is a not-for profit cooperation whose mission is to create, promote and support business development opportunities from international trade through education, networking and the provision of trade development services. Please contact Linda Tiburzi, the World Trade Center Buffalo Niagaras Director of Marketing and Programs at (716) 852-7160 for more information or visit http://www.wtcbn.org