To the members

Company name Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. Representative President Mitsuru Yokoyama Tokyo and Osaka Securities Exchanges 2nd Section Head office address 2-5, 3-chome, Chuo-ku Hommachi, Osaka.

Our Selling Control System "DIS-NET" Won Official Commendation of Ministry of Int'l Trade & Industry as "Superior Information Processing System".

"DIS-NET" introduced as the selling control system by Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. (Capital: \6,400 million, President: Mitsuru Yokoyama)from August 1997 won official commendation of Ministry of International Trade & Industry on October 1, l999. This is really resulted from the fact that our "DIS-NET" is highly valued by MITI's "Informationization Drive Month Meeting" to utilize information very strategically by information control of the whole supply chain, while investment for informationization directly reflects on improvement of business results. We, getting encouraged by this official commendation, will continuously make possible efforts to meet all of our customers' expectations by raising precision of information system.

Reference Personnel:Egeneral affairs division General affairs lesson (public relations) Saitou PHONE: +81-6-6281-9100 FAX: +81-6-6258-9351

Oct. 5, 1999