Source Interlink Announces Third Quarter Earnings Date; Conference Call To Be Broadcast Over...

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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002

Source Interlink Companies (Nasdaq: SORC), the leading provider of magazine information and front-end sales data, announced today it plans to issue third quarter results for fiscal year 2002-2003 before the

The company will broadcast live via the Internet its quarterly conference call the same day at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss financial results, business developments and outlook. The live webcast will be available at http://www.companyboardroom.com.

To listen, please go to www.companyboardroom.com approximately twenty minutes before the conference call is scheduled to begin. You will need to register as well as download and install any necessary audio software. The webcast replay will be available for 30 days.

About Source Interlink Companies

Through its In-Store Services Division, the Company is the leading provider of information and management services for retail magazine sales to U.S. and Canadian retailers and magazine publishers. Source Interlink is the category leader at the checkout counter. Services include fixture design, manufacturing, shipping through its freight company, salvage, and billing/collection of rebates paid by front-end vendors. The Division manufactures and/or manages checkout counters in more than 100,000 stores in North America that have a customer count of approximately 500 million consumers per week. From its core businesses, industry knowledge, and relationships with retailers, publishers, and vendors of mass merchandise products, Source Interlink has developed its ICN website that offers retailers and publishers proprietary sales information, a forum for communication, and e-commerce. In addition, the Manufacturing Division provides turnkey wood manufacturing and design to some of the nation's largest retailers.

The Company's Distribution Division is the leading direct-to-retail distributor of magazines to major book chains, specialty retailers and independent retail outlets. A partial list of customers includes Barnes & Noble, B. Dalton Booksellers, Borders, Waldenbooks, Hastings, Virgin Music Stores, and Tower Records and Books. The Division also distributes to the Secondary Wholesale Channel, representing service of approximate1y 1,200 magazine titles to over 130 wholesalers, who sell to more than 13,000 retailers. Additional information is available at the Company's website, http://www.sourceinterlink.com/.