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Our New Conference Series Deepens Dialog

July 2003.   Last month we announced a conference series that Dutton will host in conjunction with Friedland Capital exclusively for our covered companies. Friedland is the largest sponsor of financial-community conferences in the U.S. and Europe. The series of conferences, which will begin this fall in New York, build upon Dutton's growing reputation for high-quality, widely read research. Now, investors not only have the opportunity to read in-depth reports on good companies that the Wall Street sell side often can't afford to cover, they have an opportunity to meet with these companies -- and the analysts covering them -- directly.

Small-cap conferences that bring brokers, managers and other investment professionals together with company executives are not unusual. However, conferences based around research on small-cap companies, and the analysts covering them, are. The J.M. Dutton conference series presents companies that already have a foundation of an analyst rating, estimate, and in-depth research coverage, thus greatly expanding the level of dialog that can be expected at the events. This should also add greatly to the depth of knowledge -- and turnout -- of the attendees.