Cadre Press Release

Ellicott City, MD – March 5, 2003, 2002 - Cadre Technologies announced today that Michel Distribution Services, Inc. of Aberdeen, Maryland has selected its Cadence Fulfillment Software to manage its logistics operations. Michel Distribution is an innovator in logistics and fulfillment services in Maryland, Tennessee and California.
Michel will implement Cadence Warehouse Management, Order Management and Activity Billing initially in its 650,000 sq. foot warehouse in Aberdeen Maryland. Cadence Fulfillment will manage order capture, customer catalogs, receiving, picking, cycle counting shipping, and activity tracking and billing.

"Cadence provides Michel Distribution with a real-time paperless system, with web access to information for our customers and the flexibility we require," explained Kevin Michel, principal. "It also will generate very accurate activity information for client billing and service agreements."

Michel Distribution provides fulfillment services to both end consumer and business-to-business customers for a wide variety of clients.
"Michel Distribution has a solid reputation in the logistics market," said Joe Peters, President of Cadre. "We are extremely pleased to add them to our growing Cadre of customers".

All Cadence products are built from the ground-up on the Microsoft Windows Server platform. They have been designed to give 3rd party logistic, fulfillment and distribution companies maximum control over tracking product movement and locations. The systems execute all logistics operations including orders, product catalogs, receiving, putaway, picking, inventory control and advanced shipping. Cadre also provides warehouse consulting, implementation and support services. It has offices in Ellicott City, Maryland and Denver, Colorado.

For more information about Cadre Technologies contact Roger Rountree at 303-217-7056 or visit Cadre's web site at www.cadretech.com.