From: announce@plantfind.com
Subject: PlantFind and Green-Host Expand Partnership
Message:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 26th, 2003

Contact:

Clint Albin
Green-Host: 1.202.669.2615
Mike Ferraro
PlantFind: 1.877.473.3363

Double Your Power, Double Your Convenience

Now PlantFind members can buy their own website through the PlantFind site. It's easy to do, and industry businesses can have a professional web presence in just hours.

PlantFind's exclusive partner, Green-Host, provides affordable and easy-to-use web hosting products and services specifically designed for the Horticultural Industry. The template nature of the design makes it easy to use and allows the website owner to create and update their website with minimal training. There is a horticultural theme with a library of rotating images that give "freshness" to the look and feel every time a consumer logs onto the site. And, it allows the owner to update the site as the gardening seasons change, so the images are always relevant to the season of the year.

"This is a great solution for small businesses who want to limit the amount of time and money that they invest in a website" says Clint Albin, President of Green-Host. "And, by selling with PlantFind, it will just be that much easier for industry businesses to further grow their on-line presence."

Michael Ferraro, President of Plantfind, agreed, saying "Our mission is to make doing business easier for companies in the Green Industry. We think that if a business can have access to all the tools that PlantFind offers AND get their own website in one easy transaction, that convenience was worthwhile."

The Green-Host business model is to provide industry businesses with a website tool that will assist it in better communicating with customers and more effectively managing the business. Green-Host's management team has over 30 years of horticultural industry experience and technology development and management expertise. Green-Host is located in Bethesda, MD.

The PlantFind tools include electronic procurement and quote submission, online marketplaces for both green goods and allied products, catalog aggregation, automated requests for quote (RFQ), industry news and information, and links to the industry's best periodicals and guides, along with a comprehensive customer support program.

The PlantFind team of industry experts together has over 300 years of experience in the nursery and landscape industry. Other major alliances include FNGA (Florida Nurserymen and Growers Association), CANGC (California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers), ONLA (Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association), ALCA (Associated Landscape Contractors of America), MNLA (Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association), NYSN/LA (New York State Nursery / Landscape Association), WSNLA (Washington State Nursery & Landscape Association), Lawn and Landscape Magazine (GIE Media Group), Branch-Smith Publishing, Pacific Coast Nurseryman Magazine (PCN), LMIS (Landscape Material Information Service), CLIP Software, GroTime Software, and SBINurseries. Currently offering over 260 million individual plant listings from over 1,700 growers, PlantFind is a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the wholesale nursery and landscape industry. PlantFind is growing its Hardgoods section with a complete supply listing and purchasing platform for allied products that allows companies to shop and order products other than plants.

For more information, visit the Green-Host website www.Green-Host.com or PlantFind's website www.PlantFind.com, send an email to info@PlantFind.com, or call 1.877.473.3363.