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Company Contact: Steven B. Solomon, CEO 214.521.3443 Press Contact: Dian
Griesel, Ph.D. CT Holdings Announces Letter of Intent to Acquire
40% of Perclick CT to acquire stake in ASP that develops and
markets network, customer and financial management services for rapidly
growing Internet VoIP / VON telephony service providers Perclick’s technology already successfully
deployed with major market launch planned Dallas, Texas – September 7,
2000 – CT Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CITN), an incubator of early stage
Internet services companies, today announced that it has entered into a
letter of intent relating to its proposed acquisition of securities
convertible into approximately 40% of the shares of Perclick.com, Inc.
(“Perclick”). Perclick is
an application service provider, or ASP, that provides network, customer,
and financial management services for the fast growing Internet Protocol,
or IP, telephony market, which includes voice over Internet protocol
(VoIP) and voice over net (VON) providers.
The companies expect to close these transactions within the next 30
days, subject to the execution of definitive agreements. Mr. Solomon stated, “We are
pleased to capitalize on this great opportunity in the rapidly growing
telephony sector with a new technology that addresses critical needs for
participants in this hot sector. Our
investment in Perclick launches a major new initiative for CT Holdings.
In the future, in addition to our other investment focuses, we are
actively seeking investment opportunities in the telecommunications
infrastructure and technology industry, including the fiber optics and
photonics sector.” “Similar to Parago, I view
Perclick as a major opportunity for CT Holdings, and I intend to work
closely with Dan Kemp and the Perclick team to aggressively build out
their business infrastructure, obtain additional business partners, and
make Perclick the leader in the space,” continued Mr. Solomon. The companies believe that
Perclick will have a distinct advantage by offering an end-to-end back
office solution in the rapidly growing VoIP/VON markets. Perclick’s highly scalable solutions are designed to
outsource back-end applications and infrastructure, and automate back
office human resource requirements, using Internet-based software
solutions designed to support multiple currencies and languages.
Perclick first deployed its technology in October 1999 and plans
for launch its rollout next month. VoIP
and VON is one of the fastest growing sectors and Perclick’s back-end
back office support systems can be implemented to address critical billing
and customer relationship management needs. Perclick, headquartered
in Omaha, Nebraska, was created to address the rapidly growing Internet
Protocol, or IP telephony service, market, which is populated by carriers
and Internet service providers that seek to go to market very quickly with
their services, but also need to bill for these services accurately,
timely, and with an emphasis on convenience and excellent customer
service. Perclick plans to quickly leverage its existing software
development, infrastructure and expertise to provide a comprehensive
customer management and billing software solution for these IP service
providers worldwide Dan Kemp, President of
Perclick, stated “Perclick is very excited about our partnership with CT
Holdings. We believe CT and its portfolio companies offer attractive
synergies and long term value for Perclick.
By combining our existing technology and strong management team
with CT Holding’s management and incubation resources, we will be able
to fully leverage our combined strengths and deliver great value to our
customers and partners through unique, value-added, Internet-based
technology.” Perclick will maintain
facilities in Omaha and Dallas. The Board of Directors will also include
three designees of CT Holdings, Steve Solomon, Larry Lacerte and Phil
Romano. Additional directors will be announced later. “We are very excited about
the opportunity to purchase a substantial interest in Perclick, a company
pioneering a new online ASP solution to the billing and customer
relationship management issues confronting carriers, traditional Telcos,
Internet service providers, and Internet telephony service providers as
they move rapidly to offer VoIP and VON services,” said CT’s CEO
Steven B. Solomon. “We look forward to working with the management team
of Perclick to bring the company to the next level,” he continued, “We
believe that Perclick’s comprehensive value-added solutions will have a
profound impact for companies doing telephony over the Internet and
increase value for CT shareholders.” “As a customer of
Perclick’s Back Office Solution, we are pleased with the flexibility and
scalability of this software architecture,” said Ron Kramer, CTO of
International Talk.com, a Perclick customer and investor.
“The Perclick Solution allows International Talk.com to pursue a
strategy of rapid expansion with our VoN (Voice over Net) and VoIP
Networks. Perclick Software
handles all of our billing concerns and offers web-based management tools
(administrative and customer service interfaces) to our foreign affiliates
as well as future enterprise customers.
This is the only solution we are aware of for billing and customer
relationship management using VoIP/VON technology on an ASP basis.” About CT Holdings CT Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:
CITN) is an incubator for early stage Internet companies (http//www.ct-holdings.com).
CT Holdings’ incubator ventures include Parago, Inc. and River Logic,
LLC. Parago (www.parago.com ) provides
online, outsourced continuous customer interaction solutions and is
headquartered in Dallas with offices in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles and
more than 400 employees. Parago has developed a continuous customer
interaction model that automates promotional management and optimizes the
customer care experience for its clients. Parago, an application solution
provider (ASP) and Internet based business process outsourcer (BPO),
provides an online suite of promotional offerings designed to increase
sales, reduce costs, and retain customers, thereby increasing customer
profitability. Parago’s solutions and services include PromoCenter
(on-line promotional management, on-line rebate processing, proactive
e-mail, and on-line surveys), InfoCenter (online product demonstrations
and manuals), and KnowledgeCenter (customer data warehousing, analysis and
reporting). Parago is located at 3811 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 600,
Dallas, Texas 75219. More information is available on the World Wide Web
at www.parago.com or via email at
sales@parago.com or at (214) 521-3443. River Logic, Inc. is pioneering a
new standard of accessibility and ease-of-use in desktop decision support
and supply chain optimization tools. With the Process Optimizer MTP (PO),
River Logic brings the uncompromised power of advanced quantitative
analysis to non-technical professionals. The PO enables all users to build
a graphical model of their business, to perform sophisticated analyses
that aim to maximize profits, to generate customized reports and to
conduct what-if scenarios that evaluate the impact of their decisions
across the entire business. The Process Optimizer MTP was built with COR
Technology, River Logic’s proprietary, knowledge-based rapid application
development system. River Logic’s customers include companies in the
process manufacturing, dairy, CPG, chemical, oil & gas, forest
products, and telecommunications industries. River Logic is located at 800
Cummings Center, Suite 355W, Beverly, MA 01915. More information is
available on the World Wide Web at www.riverlogic.com
or via email at info@riverlogic.com or at (978) 921-4889 extension 5012. For more information on CT
Holdings, its Internet subsidiaries, and its Citadel Technology line of
security software products, please visit our Web site at http://www.ct-holdings.com.
For information on purchasing products, contact us directly by writing or
calling: CT Holdings, Inc., 3811 Turtle Creek Blvd., Suite 770, Dallas,
Texas 75219; phone: 214/520.9292; fax: 214/520.9293. For media or investor
relations contact: The Investor Relations Group at 212/736.2650. About Perclick Perclick, a Nebraska
corporation formed in 1999, develops and markets Internet software and
specializes in the development of sophisticated database applications.
The company’s strategy is the development of an ASP business for
outsourcing billing, call tracking, network monitoring and customer
management and e-commerce solutions for companies in the emerging Internet
telephony industry. Perclick
has extensive experience developing Java Servlet engines for large
Web-enabled database applications and uses a 100% pure Java Web
application server for rapid development of database centric vertical
applications. Forward-Looking
Statements: This news release contains forward-looking statements, which
involve risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, no assurance can be given
that the actual events and results will not be materially different than
the anticipated results described in the forward-looking statement. There
are a number of important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those expressed in any forward-looking statements.
These factors include uncertainties related to the closing of the proposed
acquisition and integration of the business and operations of acquired
companies; availability of suitable incubator companies; and the
availability of capital on terms acceptable to the Company. Investors are
also directed to consider other risks and uncertainties discussed in
documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission. CT Holdings undertakes no
obligation to publicly release the result of any revisions to these
forward-looking statements, which may be made to reflect events or
circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events. |