"Hotel Freedonia" to be launched at the Online Information 2001 Conference.

Cleveland, OH, USA, November 9, 2001 -- The Freedonia Group, Inc., a leading industry market research firm, is launching its newest on-line product: Hotel Freedonia" at the Online Information 2001 conference in London December 4th -- 6th.

This new Web-based product is co-branded and customized for each corporate client to provide unlimited access for its employees to the Freedonia studies owned by the organization. As a result, Hotel Freedonia enables the client corporation to share Freedonia Group industry intelligence with colleagues worldwide. The Hotel Freedonia" Web site is made available to a client companys employees via an exclusive link through the clients corporate intranet. Hotel Freedonia is maintained and updated by The Freedonia Group, is simple to implement, and from the clients perspective is virtually maintenance free thereby making it easy for client IT organizations to support.

At Hotel Freedonia, employees of a Freedonia client may search all Freedonia content by free text searches or browsing study titles by industry sector. If desired a user may limit the search results to content already owned by his or her employer -- thereby retrieving only free content. Study searches can be conducted at multiple levels including Study Title, Table of Contents and Full Text with Boolean logic supported in the latter two cases.

Studies that the corporate client owns are clearly designated by a special icon. These studies are immediately available for free viewing in either HTML or a fully book marked PDF format.

For studies not owned by the client corporation, the user can purchase individual pages, charts, graphs, chapters or the full study. Items purchased by an individual are housed in My Hotel Freedonia" and are available on an ongoing basis. An individual may also request that the study be added to the main Hotel" thus making the study available to all other employees worldwide.

Sharing knowledge and making knowledge accessible empowers decisions, lowers costs and provides the leverage needed to succeed" said Clint Delafield, Freedonia Groups Vice President of Business Development. Hotel Freedonia is a cost effective means by which our clients corporate Information Technologies groups can provide instantaneous access to the valuable Freedonia studies owned by them" Mr. Delafield concluded.

The Freedonia Group will debut the new product at stand 270 at the Online Information 2001 Conference. Mr. Delafield and CEO Jeff Weiss will be on hand to conduct live, client specific demonstrations and answer questions about Freedonia Group services and products at the conference. A brief presentation will also be made at the conference on Tuesday December 4 at 12:10 PM in Theatre B located on the Gallery level.

The Freedonia Group, Inc. is a leading international business research company, founded in 1985. The Freedonia Group publishes over 100 industry studies annually, purchased by more than 90% of the industrial companies in the Fortune 500. The studies are designed to aid in strategic planning by offering historical and forecast trend analysis, as well as competitive intelligence and market share.

To schedule a demonstration, contact Clint Delafield at telephone 440-684-9600 or cdelafield@freedoniagroup.com

For more information, contact Corinne Gangloff, Media Relations, telephone 440-684-9600 or pr@freedoniagroup.com.