Corporate Express Press Releases - 2001

News Release - September 25, 2001 CORPORATE EXPRESS SELECTS TRIGO TO PROVIDE CUSTOMER-SPECIFIC PRODUCT INFORMATION TO MAXIMIZE CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS Trigo and webMethods Work Together with $4.4 Billion Office Product Leader to Leverage Information Across Multiple Online Sales Channels

BRISBANE, Calif. – September 27, 2001. Trigo Technologies™, Inc., the innovator of supplier-focused software designed to optimize multiple online sales channels, today announced that Corporate Express, Inc., the world’s leading business-to-business supplier of office and computer products and services, has selected the Trigo Enterprise™ solution to enhance its ability to deliver relevant, customized product information to its customers across multiple online purchasing systems and the Corporate Express eCommerce platform. Trigo Enterprise uses industry-leading, enterprise-class technology that enables manufacturers and distributors to easily and efficiently manage thousands of online customer relationships. Corporate Express joins many other multibillion-dollar companies that are using the Trigo Enterprise solution to maximize their online sales channels. “Our decision to use Trigo was based on our commitment to exceed our customers’ eProcurement objectives,” said Robert King, president and chief executive officer of Corporate Express. “The Trigo Enterprise solution will enable us to efficiently deliver more product information tailored to our customers’ requirements and eProcurement systems. This relationship is key to our ongoing strategy of providing leading-edge technologies that will enhance productivity and reduce the time and costs associated with delivering office and computer products and services.” How Corporate Express Is Putting Trigo Enterprise to Work The Trigo Enterprise solution will help Corporate Express manage the content necessary to support thousands of customers across multiple online sales channels. First, the Trigo Enterprise solution gathers product information from across the enterprise and organizes it into a single repository. It then delivers published content to various destinations, including Corporate Express’ own sell-side web site, a variety of internal systems, and more than 30 eProcurement and other buy-side platforms, reaching hundreds of customers. With the Trigo Enterprise solution, Corporate Express can publish and deliver product information across its customers' different online purchasing platforms and its own sell-side web site with increasing frequency, while significantly lowering the costs and resources required to maintain all of these relationships. Whether publishing product information to the sell-side web site, customer eProcurement platforms, or internal systems, Trigo is helping Corporate Express improve its quality of service while reducing operational costs. Working with webMethods Corporate Express recently announced a new strategic initiative to use the webMethods integration platform to provide a connected infrastructure across its enterprise, providing enhanced security and guaranteed delivery of data moving into, within, and outside of the organization. Because of its prior collaboration with webMethods, Trigo can readily support this initiative and fully leverage Corporate Express’ investment in webMethods integration software to extract data from multiple sources inside Corporate Express and from its business partners. The integration of webMethods' solution with Trigo Enterprise allows Corporate Express to deliver consistent, relevant, and personalized product information to its customers. “webMethods is pleased to be working with Trigo on yet another leading-edge customer project,” said Tom Roberts, vice president of platform alliances for webMethods Inc. “We look forward to a continued mutually beneficial relationship with Trigo to provide state-of-the-art solutions for Fortune 500 suppliers that must cost-effectively aggregate, manage, and deliver customized product information to prospective buyers across multiple online sales channels.” “We’re thrilled to be working with Corporate Express, which is clearly a leader in the office product industry,” said Thomas Reilly, chief executive officer, Trigo Technologies. “In today’s turbulent economic environment, we take pride in delivering solid value to all our top-tier customers as we continue to champion the needs of suppliers and establish our leadership in sell-side solutions.” About Corporate Express, Inc. Corporate Express, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Buhrmann, NV (AEX:BUHR), an international business services and distribution group. Buhrmann is the world's major supplier of office products, paper and graphic systems for the business market. Corporate Express' product offering includes office and computer supplies, imaging and computer graphics supplies, office furniture, document and print management, desktop software, promotional products, and other similar products. Corporate Express has operations in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Corporate Express' North American operations have approximately 500 facilities, including 68 distribution centers, and employs 16,500 people. The Company's Web site address is is www.corporateexpress.com. About Trigo Technologies, Inc. Trigo Technologies, Inc. is the innovator of supplier-focused software designed to optimize multiple online sales channels. Trigo Enterprise is the first comprehensive software platform to automate and tightly integrate critical supplier business processes, enabling manufacturers and distributors to manage and maximize multiple online sales channels with industry-leading enterprise-class technology. Trigo provides IT departments with a standards-compliant solution that can be rapidly integrated with suppliers’ back-end systems and their customers’ eProcurement systems and public and private marketplaces. Founded in January 2000 by a team of IT, marketing, and sales professionals, Trigo is located in Brisbane, Calif. For more information, visit www.trigo.com, send email to info@trigo.com, or call 650-827-0500. Trigo, Trigo Technologies, Trigo Enterprise, and the Trigo Technologies logo are trademarks of Trigo Technologies, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other company and product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Contacts: Marci Rodgers Trainer Public Relations (925) 245-1111 Van Hindes Vice President Communications Corporate Express North America (303) 664-3989