NetDespatch Soars Towards Christmas Internet Shopping Peak

MARLOW, England, November 27 /PRNewswire/ --     NetDespatch, the on-demand software specialist in the logistics and
distribution sector, is seeing a massive seasonal uplift to its business as
more and more people buy Christmas gifts online or through catalogues. In
November alone, the delivery of over 8 million parcels will be managed online
by the NetDespatch Velocity web-based platform, and with the scanning of
parcels throughout the delivery process, the company's secure web servers are
processing an average of 100,000 transactions an hour.

Distribution, delivery and mailroom management companies are increasingly
utilising on-demand software from NetDespatch to manage complex web
technology, integration with customers, partners and suppliers, as well as
seamlessly integrated real-time signature capture from GPRS-enabled hand held
terminals. With more than six years experience of high-volume transactions,
tens of thousands of users and securely encrypted data transfer, NetDespatch
is increasingly seen as an industry standard.

Home delivery specialist TNT Post, the leading challenger to the Royal
Mail in the postal market, has utilised NetDespatch's Velocity platform to
create an end-to-end, wholly web- based solution to control its innovative
packet and parcel home delivery services. The company is able to provide
unparalled customer and supplier integration, with enterprise-wide visibility
of data from customer despatch right through to courier delivery. TNT Post is
also able to utilise the platform to offer a leading-edge customer returns
solution.

Other carriers such as APC Overnight and Amtrak are increasingly
providing home delivery services through the Velocity platform. This allows
customers to book and track on line, whether an occasional shipper paying by
credit card or a major customer requiring integration with their sales order
processing or warehouse system. The NetDespatch systems integration, advanced
bar code labelling and address checking services ensure that home delivery
shopping order details are only entered once, are held securely on a central
server, are automatically booked with the chosen parcel carrier, and are
correctly labelled ready for collection from any location.

"The early indications are that retailers are seeing yet another big
increase in online sales as Christmas approaches. It is always the busiest
time for NetDespatch but this year we are likely to handle more than treble
our previous transaction peak," says Becky Clark, CEO of NetDespatch. "Even
so," she continues "our servers show only a slight increase in load as they
have been architected to handle many times the volume we currently process."

Earlier this year, due to exponential growth over the previous twelve
months, and with turnover to May 2007 exceeding GBP1 million for the first
time, the Marlow-based company moved to larger premises in order to house its
increased staff. From a fledgling EMI .com business which survived the
Internet boom and bust, NetDespatch, which is still privately owned, is an
unusual success story, and is now one of the UK's fastest growing technology
companies.

"After three years of dedicated research and development, and five years
working with our customers and end-users in the UK, we have seen them gain
unique business agility and advantage. We have proven that we have a
world-leading business solution and have recently expanded our senior
management team to include further top technology and industry professionals,
as well as retaining British Telecom to host and manage both our servers and
mobile data solutions. 2008 will see us expanding from our UK base into both
European and North American markets. With profit now growing rapidly we are
able to invest in global software products, including advanced statistical
reporting tools and sophisticated file management software, which will add
further value to our fast developing portfolio of on demand web services,"
comments Becky Clark.

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