This promotion takes effect immediately and he will oversee with overall responsibility the operations and the core business of the company . Before taking on this new role, he was the Executive Vice President in charge of the company's mass merchant business in Canada and the US. He has been with the company for the past 6 years and coupled with his experience, from the numerous years in the retail business, is instrumental in building Samtack Canada to be the number 1 supplier to the mass merchants. His new role, apart from managing the mass merchant business, will also see him build the company to be the number 1 supplier to customers in the distribution business. (CDN Page 18) (eChannel Live)

NOTES TO EDITOR

Samtack Computer Inc. head-quartered in Markham, with branches in Montreal and the City of Industry ( California ) is a North American distributor since 1989. It distributes portable MP3 digital players, DVD/CD-RW/CD-ROM drives and upgrade kits, CD-R/CD-RW media, hard drives, desktop PCs, motherboards, VGAs, sound cards, fax modems, monitors, network cards & hubs, printers and many more computer and internet related products. The other core business of the company is the Mass Merchant business and Samtack has representation in most of the major retail chains in Canada carrying brandnames like RetailPlus, Pine, Comstar and UltraSpeed.

It is a member of the international Pine Technology group, a global computer component and internet appliances manufacturer with offices in the US, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Taiwan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Research and Development offices are located in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

For further information, please contact:

Robert Chin
VP Marketing Communications
Samtack
110A Cochrane Drive, Markham, Ontario, L3R 9S1
Tel: 905 940-1880 x 356
e-mail: robert@samtack.com