Maporama chosen by Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group to guide customers on I-mode

Paris, November 27, 2002 -- Maporama, the leading provider of location-centric applications announces today that its market leading locator facility has been selected by the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group, Frances second largest regional banking group, to enhance the companys I-Mode site.

The Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group chooses Maporama to guide customers on I-mode

Paris, November 27, 2002 -- Maporama, the leading provider of location-centric applications announces today that its market leading locator facility has been selected by the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group, Frances second largest regional banking group, to enhance the companys I-Mode site.

Users benefit from fast and simple access to a powerful service enabling them to localize the nearest bank, ATM, or merchants accepting the new Moneo electronic wallet. Users begin their search on I-mode enabled phones, simply by entering a postal code or address -- the result is an extensive list of bank locations, ATMs, or Moneo-compatible" merchants. A detailed situation map and telephone number is provided for each address, while for each bank location, accompanying opening hours are also available.

Through this agreement with the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group, Maporama once again demonstrates its capacity to attract the leading players in their respective sectors," said Laurent Vermot Gauchy, Maporama CEO & President. Maporama is the only global location-centric provider to offer perfect compatibility with the I-Mode platform. Several international customers are already using our location-centric solutions built for this new platform."

After launching the first Internet banking service in 1995, then on digital TV and WAP, the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group is now extending its remote service offering to I-Mode phones, increasing our advance in home-banking and confirming our status as bank of proximity," said Charles Cabillic, Remote-Banking Product Manager, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group.

About Maporama:
Maporama is a leading provider of Location-Centric applications. Location-centric applications enable organisations to turn their location data into profit, accelerating consumers purchase decision cycle by helping them find specific products at specific stores while sharing store-specific information internally with employees and externally with suppliers.

Maporama's product offer includes advanced mapping and routing turnkey products as well as a powerful and complete API library for developers. In order to guarantee customer flexibility and autonomy, Maporama provides Maporama Partner Solutions, an integrated online administration suite.
Maporama is the only location-centric solutions provider to localise an address of over a billion of consumers around the world offering, in addition to industry standard European and North American coverage, detailed street maps of Eastern Europe, Australia, Africa, South America,...

From its inception in 2000, Maporama continues to lead innovation in its industry. In 2000, Maporama was first to announce pre-packaged solutions per industry sector. In 2001, the company was also first to announce location-based advertising products.
Today, the company is building a unique approach to enterprise-wide location-centric applications, compliant with any existing communication platform (Web, Wireless, PDAs, set-top-boxes) as well as with any existing cellular or landline telephone device through speech technology.

Maporama has more than 500 customers in over 15 countries including Yahoo!, Aventis, Europcar, Dr Martens, Estée Lauder, Thomson Multimedia, UBS Warburg, Diageo...
Headquartered in Paris (France), Maporama markets its products in Europe and in the USA.
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For further information about Maporama:
Dan Chappell, Andrew Lloyd & Associates
+44 (0)1273 675100
dan@ala.com

Libor Cerny, Maporama
+33 (0)1 44 84 10 22
lcerny@maporama.com

For further information about the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group:
Jean Bannier, Director of Communication
+33 (0)1 02 98 00 22 99
jean.bannier@cmb.fr