AMERICA'S THIRD LARGEST INDUSTRY GETS NEW CAREER AND EDUCATIONAL SITE

Packaging the third largest industry has a new online learning university. With speakers, tutorials, conferences and continuing education for the packaging industry and related fields.

Kennesaw, GA. (July 24, 2002) The packaging business, which contributes $1 trillion a year to the United States economy and employs over one million in the U.S., now has a web site
www.PackagingUniversity.com to provide education, training and professional development resources to those who work in the nation's third largest industry.

In addition to a host of career and educational resources, the site features a Speakers Bureau Directory. Speakers are currently available
on topics including E-Commerce, Fundamentals of Cosmetic and/or Pharmaceutical Packaging, FDA Compliant for Indirect/Direct Food,
and Reclosable Packaging Solutions.

"We enthusiastically launch PackagingUniversity.com," said

Founding Executive Director of Women in Packaging, Inc., JoAnn R. Hines,
(http://www.womeninpackaging.org/founder.html ) whose organizationdeveloped the site. "Our goal to extend resources on a global basis to
packaging professionals and the industry through this new Website."

More than 10,000 American companies are part of the packaging industry,including household names like Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kraft, Hewlett
Packard, S.C. Johnson and Procter & Gamble. "Without the package," Hines says, "you can't sell the product."

Contact: JoAnn R. Hines,

jrhines@womeninpackaging.org

Founding Executive Director,

Women in Packaging, Inc.,

770-924-3563, 770-928-2338