Stralfors AB is pleased to announce that it has signed a new two-year
contract to deliver IT supplies to ABB's Nordic units. All products will
be ordered via Trade-it, Stralfors' Web-based marketplace. All ABB
companies in the Nordic region, including 100 in Sweden, are covered by
the contract.

The contract will give ABB companies realtime access to product
information and a constantly updated price list. The deal is yet another
example of the rapid growth of business-to-business e-commerce.

"We chose Stralfors because up-to-date product information and price lists
are vital for a company like ABB - anything else just doesn't work,"
comments Staffan Söderbäck, senior contract manager at ABB IT Partner.

"The future will also see us using electronic channels for invoices and
other types of communication."

Attractive turnkey solutions for e-commerce
Stralfors' turnkey e-commerce solutions are proving extremely attractive
to many customers. The Trade-it site allows for customised purchasing
solutions covering many of Stralfors' products and services, primarily for
the company's IT-Supplies business area, which is the largest player in
its field in the Nordic countries. Meanwhile, Stralfors TradeCom Solutions
AB creates efficient e-commerce solutions that combine Internet trading
with EDI in areas such as ordering and invoicing. Using in-house software
packages Astrad and Alliance, Stralfors can help companies to create e-
commerce solutions quickly that not only work well in a Web environment,
but also link existing business systems efficiently.

E-commerce halves purchasing costs
Efficiency, greater control and shorter lead times mean that trading over
the Internet is estimated to slash purchasing costs by as much as 10-50%.

Since the Trade-it site is fully integrated into Stralfors' business
system, customers can place orders directly with the system via the
Internet.

The IT-Supplies business area - which is adding around 200 new products a
month - is particularly dependent on rapid e-commerce, and over 1,800
customers currently use Trade-it to place orders and obtain information,
with many more users joining each month.

Stralfors operates in the field of information transfer, focusing on
computer-related products and services. Group turnover for 1999 totalled
SEK 2.6 billion. The group has operations in 11 countries and 1,580
employees worldwide, 840 of whom are based in Sweden. Stralfors has been
listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange since 1984.

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