The CAS Global Alliance Program

CAS, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is the only globally managed Microsoft Independent Software Vendor (ISV) dedicated to the Consumer Products market. CAS embraces the spectrum of Microsoft products, including Design & User Experience (Silverlight), Developer Tools (.NET Framework and Visual Studio), Operating System (Windows), Application Server (Windows Server), Database (SQL Server), Reporting & Analytics (SQL Server), Mobile Devices & Software (Windows Mobile), Web Browser (Internet Explorer) and Business Tools (Office).

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. More information about Microsoft can be found at Microsoft.com.

CAS has more successful SAP integrations than any other customer management and mobility provider in the Consumer Products industry. CAS is Powered by SAP NetWeaver®, and our innovative solutions are built to extend the investments our customers have made in SAP by integrating with their ERP and CRM ‘back office’, and helping their field sales force get closer to their customers, increase revenue and improve sales efficiency.

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software, offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 89,000 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." For more information, visit SAP.com.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008. Its home page is Accenture.com.

About the Accenture Consumer Goods and Services Group

Having worked for decades with the world’s most successful consumer goods companies in home and personal care, food and non alcoholic beverages, alcoholic beverages, consumer healthcare and fashion segments we have the insight and experience to help these organizations come out on top. We enable consumer goods companies to achieve high performance through dynamic market conditions by developing an in-depth understanding of the consumers and their varying needs; enabling sustained capabilities through ERP, custom and emerging technologies; optimizing supply chain and cost structures; and offering a unique mix of strategies that serve as building blocks for accelerating growth and sustaining long-term success.

Delivering high performance in consumer goods and services: Accenture’s focus on the consumer goods and services industry gives us an understanding of business issues and applicable technologies, enabling us to deliver innovative solutions to our clients. Our global delivery model allows us to draw on resources around the world to deliver high-quality solutions under demanding time frames.

To learn more about how Accenture works with consumer goods and services businesses, visit our industry home page at Accenture.com/ConsumerGoods.

About Capgemini

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in more than 30 countries, Capgemini reported 2008 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion (USD $12.74 billion) and employs 90,000 people worldwide. More information is available at Capgemini.com.

About the Capgemini Consumer Products, Retail & Distribution Sector

Capgemini has worked with 27 of the world’s 30 largest consumer goods companies and 27 of the world’s 30 largest retailers - and hundreds more - to provide solutions designed to meet their unique requirements. We leverage our experience, people and tools to achieve breakthrough results for our consumer products and retail clients, allowing them to more effectively:

• Transform and Grow in New Markets
• Innovate and Engage with Consumers
• Integrate and Collaborate Across the Value Chain
• Operate Your Multiple Channels
• Optimize Your Core Business
• Manage and Leverage Business Information

More information is available at Capgemini.com/Industries/Products/.

About IBM

Instrumented. Interconnected. Intelligent.

We believe that IBM is uniquely positioned to help clients succeed because of our depth of resources, including one of the world’s largest professional services groups of some 200,000 consultants, our expertise and experience with the most forward-thinking institutions, governments and businesses around the world. The opportunity is now.

Because the technology on a number of fronts—cloud and stream computing, sensor capabilities, virtualization, visualization and algorithmic models—is here and ready. Because we have no choice: many of our current ways of doing things are inefficient and expensive, and eventually will not work. Let's work together to make our planet smarter.

About IBM in The Consumer Products Industry

The marketplace in which consumer products manufacturers operate has never been more complex, and the relationships with shoppers, consumers, and retailers have never been more demanding. The range of business challenges and opportunities is daunting:

• Reduce costs while ensuring a sustainable, successful product lifecycle
• Tap into the talent of your workforce by promoting collaboration
• Improve insight and intelligence with a single view of your data

"I didn't know IBM does that." Clients around the world are amazed by the ways IBM enables innovation excellence in the consumer products industry. In addition to traditional challenges of creating innovative products and services to drive top-line growth, managing relationships with retailers, suppliers and customers, and executing an efficient and effective supply chain, our industry is being faced with new challenges. Volatile raw materials commodity prices, as well as increasing customer demands are putting pressure on margins and testing our brand's ability to thrive. Please get to know IBM and review our experiences in helping our clients excel in these unpredictable times by browsing our Consumer Products Industry Website: IBM.com/ConsumerProducts