Shareholder.com Announces Seventh Consecutive Year of Profitability; Early And Sustained...

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON and MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)

January 22, 2001

60% Revenue growth for investor relations company propelled by

substantial new client growth including ABN Amro,

eBay, Merrill Lynch and Nike.

Shareholder.com,

the recognized innovator in investor relations communications and Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) compliance, announced today that year 2000 was its seventh year of continuous profitability. The company first became profitable in 1994 and has remained so since. This record is particularly notable in comparison to the volatility and high cash-burn rates of competitive dot-com companies. Revenues for the year also increased over 60% relative to the prior year. Shareholder.com starts 2001 totally debt-free, profitable and with no pressures from external funding sources.

"We're proud of our financial record and we're even prouder of our peoples' efforts whose productivity and innovation made it possible" stated Shareholder.com Founder and President Ronald Gruner. Against many external and internal pressures, Gruner held out against the temptation of venture capital funding throughout the late 1990s and has lead Shareholder.com with the time-proven business model of consistent profitable growth. "Additionally, as Shareholder.com grew we discovered that funding our revenue growth with retained earnings instilled a strong level of confidence and longevity within our client base," concluded Gruner.

Since 1992, this business philosophy of organic growth has allowed Shareholder.com to remain independent of changes in the capital markets giving the company an uninterrupted focus on developing and enhancing their investor relations services. In 2000, Shareholder.com's concentration on development brought several important, new communication technologies to market. Principal of these developments was Shareholder.com NewsWizard, a desktop portal that enables public companies to interact 24 / 7 with their shareholders and, importantly, drive their investor relations department with powerful "push" technologies needed for SEC Regulation Fair Disclosure compliance.

About Shareholder.com

Shareholder.com is the industry innovator in the development of empowering technologies for communicating with investors and complying with Regulation Fair Disclosure. Their comprehensive service provides customized investor relations websites, webcasts, integrated push email and fax broadcasts, interactive telephone applications and comprehensive mail fulfillment services. Shareholder.com communicates with more than 40 million shareholders for its 550+ leading US and international companies including Gucci, Hewlett-Packard, and John Hancock and USAirways.