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Issue date: December 08, 2000

BUSINESS ONLINE

Safeway acquires East Coast Genuardi's

After the acquisition, Safeway will operate over 1,700 stores in 21 states in the U.S. and in Western Canada, with estimated annual sales of approximately $33 billion. The company will employ more than 200,000 people.

The transaction was unanimously approved by the board of directors of Genuardi's Family Markets and by Safeway's Board of Directors, and has been unanimously approved by the holders of Genuardi's voting stock.

"This transaction represents an excellent opportunity for Safeway to continue its growth strategy, and we are thrilled to be reinforcing our position in the fast-growing Mid-Atlantic market with such a high quality operation," said Steve Burd, Chairman, President and CEO of Safeway.

"We have great respect for the Genuardi family," he added. "Under their leadership, Genuardi's has continued to strengthen its reputation as an innovative food retailer and market leader in the region. We are very excited about the prospects for Genuardi's."

Safeway Inc. is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America with annualized sales of approximately $32 billion. The company currently operates 1,680 stores in the United States and Canada and has approximately 193,000 employees. The company's common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWY.

Safeway has made contributions to food banks totaling $50 million annually. Since becoming a corporate sponsor of the Easter Seal Society in 1985, Safeway and its employees have raised over $63 million to help people with disabilities. Safeway is also a significant contributor to education and has donated over $20 million to schools in its market areas annually.

Pleasanton-based ACCPAC doubles Mexican reseller accounts

Jumping from five to 12 value-added resellers, ACCPAC now has the largest indirect sales channel of any international financial management solution in Mexico. The company said that it is now exploring further Latin American expansion in Argentina, Peru and Panama.

"We're focused on getting our Spanish-language solutions to a much larger number of potential users in this, the world's largest Spanish-speaking country," said Bill Copeland, ACCPAC vice president, international business.

"We're confident that the number of ACCPAC users will rapidly grow as our greater presence in Mexico allows many more small and mid-sized companies there to understand how our solutions can improve the efficiency and reliability of their businesses," he said.

Most of the new Mexican resellers said they chose ACCPAC because its business management software programs provide simple-to-use high-end functionality within a Microsoft Windows environment, extensive system scalability, broad e-Business capabilities, multicurrency conversions and multi-language support.

ACCPAC International, Inc., a division of Computer Associates' interBiz group, has its headquarters at 6700 Koll Center Parkway.

Appiant, Pipeline Technologies form alliance

Pipeline and Appiant will work closely together to drive adoption of the inUnison portal and applications among Pipeline's end-users.

Pipeline provides prepaid flat-rate communications through its extensive distribution channels across the country, in markets comprising 70 percent of the U.S. population. Its contracts include the North American Baptist Convention and Network America, totaling more than 150 thousand potential customers.

"As a Cisco Powered Network member, Appiant Technologies was recommended to Pipeline by Cisco as having a robust solution built on a powerful unified communications platform," said John Gallen, COO of Pipeline Technologies. "The decision to work with Appiant Technologies was based on the company's rapid implementation capability, superior technology, and product scalability. Appiant Technologies offers a feature-rich, end-to-end solution that meets our specific needs."

Commerce One forms partnership with NetVendor

Intira Chooses NARUS Technology for netsourcing enhancement

"NARUS will be a valuable tool in helping us develop enhanced services that benefit our customers," said John Steensen, vice president and CTO of Intira. "Additionally, NARUS technology provides efficiencies that may help Intira reduce costs over time."

Based in Pleasanton, Intira has offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Lightspeed Interactive names Patrick Burns as president, CEO

Over the past 30 years, Burns has held executive management positions with Fortune 500 market leaders and leading venture capital-backed portfolio companies, including the last 15 years, in CEO and Chief Financial Officer positions.

"Patrick is highly respected and has led companies across the country in key financial and business operation activities," said Hatch Graham, Lightspeed's Chairman of the Board. "We are extremely fortunate to have Patrick on board and look forward to his insight and counsel."

Burns was CFO/secretary-treasurer of DHL Corporation and held senior management positions with companies such as Ford Motor Co., Xerox Corp., Bechtel, Inc., International Systems, Inc., and Maersk Industries, Inc. In the mid-80s, he began working with early stage, private companies, and has accomplished a number of successful IPOs.

He holds BA degrees from the University of Missouri and the University of the Americas, Mexico City, with post-graduate studies in economics at the University of Detroit, and in languages at the U.S. Navy's Defense Language Institute in Monterey.

Established in 1995, Pleasanton-based Lightspeed Interactive, Inc. has offices in Mountain View, San Diego and Atlanta, as well as sales offices nationwide