Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software

Press Release

Date:
Thursday, July 12, 2001
Contact:
David Peikin
Phone:
(301) 918-0818
Email:
G1@schwartz-pr.com

Group 1 Software Recognized by Investor's Business Daily
and Fortune Small Business

Lanham, MD — Group 1 Software (Nasdaq: GSOF), a leading provider of customer relationship management (CRM)-enabling software solutions, today announced that it was ranked #26 on Investor's Business Daily's Best Software Companies List and #58 on the Fortune Small Business (FSB) 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies List. This follows the company's recent announcement that it was named one of BusinessWeek's 100 Hot Growth companies.

"We are pleased that our financial performance has been recognized by Investor's Business Daily and Fortune Small Business," said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. "Our recent growth is a testament to the fact that organizations worldwide are realizing the tremendous value of Group 1's software solutions in enabling them to find, reach, and keep customers."

The Fortune Small Business 100 Fastest Growing Small Companies List is in the July/August issue. The magazine ranked companies based on earnings growth, revenue growth and total stock return. Investor's Business Daily's Best Software Companies List was published in the June 12 issue. The newspaper ranked companies by profit, sales growth, margins and return on equity.

Group 1 Software is a leading provider of software for data quality, marketing automation, customer relationship communications, and direct marketing applications. Group 1 supports MVS, VSE, AS/400, UNIX (including Linux), Windows NT, Windows 2000 and other operating systems and various computers. Group 1 has offices throughout the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and Latin America. The company is also represented in Asia and Australia.

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