TradingPartners is a global eAuction provider founded in 2000 in London. They have over 500 auction categories and 20,000 suppliers. Their team has extensive purchasing experience and they conduct auctions in 17 languages across offices in Europe, North America, and Asia. They provide full sourcing services beyond just running auctions, including strategic sourcing and supplier development. On average, their clients save 18% on procurement spend through TradingPartners' auctions and services.

1. TradingPartners Who? What? Why?

2. Who is TradingPartners? Founded, February 2000 in London Market Leader in Full-Service eAuctions Global Footprint & Experience North America, Europe & Asia-Pacific 500+ categories auctioned 20,000+ suppliers in database Privately Owned – VC Backed Saving Our Clients Millions

3. What Makes Us Different? Exceptional People More than 70% of our global team have purchasing backgrounds, averaging 7 years Category Coverage More fully-managed eAuctions across more categories than any other eAuction provider in the world Global Capabilities Access to global suppliers Conducting business in more than 17 different languages Advanced eAuction Technology Proprietary software for customization and flexibility Multiple auction types available People Global Software

4. Global Footprint Since opening in 2000, TradingPartners has worked with more than 300 of the world’s leading companies Atlanta Chicago London Shanghai Offices Stamford Dallas Expansion

5. Technology Outsourcing Consulting What Do We Do? More Than Just Running eAuctions

6. The TradingPartners eAuction Process Post - eAuction Review eAuction Pre-eAuction Review 4 – 8 weeks Supplier Training and Conditioning Issue Invitation to Quote Supplier Selection Sourcing Strategy Data Management Spend Analysis So more than just software and an auction date…. TradingPartners acts like a full-service SWAT Team that augments your procurement efforts to maximize speed and optimize savings.

7. Saving Money is The Objective Consistently Successful eAuction categories Spend Category TradingPartners Average Saving % Average Number of Participating Suppliers Office supplies 25% 4 Telecommunications 28% 5 Multi-functional print devices 30% 7 Stationary and printing 26% 5 IT Hardware 19% 8 Office Furniture 20% 5 2007 Company Statistics Total client spend run through our process: $5 Billion Collective identified savings for clients: circa $1 Billion

8. Our Success Rate is Extraordinary * “Japanese” style auction $11.5 million saved Category Location # of Suppliers Total Bids Spend Spend $ Equivalent Savings Savings $ Equivalent % Saved Office Furniture U.S.A 4 28 $2.8M $2.8M $375K $375K 13.23% Office Supplies UK 8 205 £2.9M $5.65M £1M $1.95M 34.36% Telecommunications UK 12 509 £305K $595K £79K $154K 25.89% Vehicle Hire UK 3 * £497K $969K £118K $230K 23.76% Envelopes U.S.A. 6 64 $1.5M $1.5M $312K $312K 14.85% Waste Management U.S.A. 19 127 $1.5M $1.5M $203K $203K 13.45% IT Hardware UK 6 118 £675K $1.3M £113K $220K 16.92% Office Furniture U.S.A. 6 111 $8.7M $8.7M $2.2M $2.22M 25.51% Office Supplies UK 4 182 £3.3M $6.43M £909K $1.77M 27.52% Relocation Services U.S.A. 22 280 $4.6M $4.6M $1.9M $1.93M 41.95% High Volume Print UK 6 31 £1.9M $3.07M £1.24M $2.14M 63.60%

9. Across a Wide Range of Spend Categories Doughnuts Dried Fruit Dried Pasta Drive Shafts Drums Elbows Electricity Engineering Spares Emulsifiers Envelopes Exhausts Fabrications Fans Fasteners Fax Machines Film Filters Fish fingers Fixings Fleet Cars Fleet Management Flour Flywheel Housings Foams Foil & Clingfilm Folding Cartons Forgings Forks Freight Fulfilment Freon Gas Frozen Burgers Frozen Chicken Frozen Fishcakes Frozen Potatoes Frozen Sausage Frozen Vegetables Fruit Juice Fuels Fulfilment Furniture Garden chemicals Garden Hoses Gas Gateaux German Wine Glass Bottles Glue Grommets Growing Media Hoists Hoses Hotels Housings Hydraulic Cylinders Hydraulic Oil Hydraulic Tubes Hygiene Paper Industrial Cleaning Inertia Rings Injection Moulding Insulation Insurance IT Consumables IT Contractors IT Hardware and services Italian Wine Jams Ketchup Kidney Beans Kingposts & Carriages Kitchen/ Facial Tissue Lab Supplies Labels Lamb Laptops Laser Printers Lifting Eyes Light clusters Light fittings Light metal fabrications Light bulbs Limousine Services Logistics LPG Luggage Machining Marketing materials Marketing Print Mattresses Mayonnaise Media Supplies Medicines Metal Casings Milk portions Mineral Water Mixers Mobile Phones Modems Monitors Moulded Rubber Mouldings MRO Muffins Mushrooms Nails and Screws Napkins Nuts Cheddar Cheese Office Furniture Office Supplies Olive oil Packaging Paint Pallets Paper Passives Pasta Pasties Patch Cord PCs Peeled Onions Pet Food Pies Pillows and Duvets Pipe Fittings Pistons Pizza Bases Planet Gears Plastic Bags Plastic Buckets Pork Postage services Poultry Prawns Pressings Print PRNs Processed Cheese Plates Protective gloves Pulleys Pump Components Pumps Quiche Recycling Refrigeration Rice Rough Castings Rubber Hoses Sand & Aggregates Sausage Rolls Sausages Scampi Scanners Scrap & Waste Security Semi-conductors Sheet metal fabrications Shovels Silencers Small Housings Solar Lighting Soups Spun Pulleys Stamped Rubber Stampings Stationery Steel Castings Styrofoam Cups Surface casings Table Sauces Tanks Tea Telecoms Temporary Labour Thermo set Plastics Toffees Toilet Paper Toilet Seats Topped Pizzas Tortillas Travel Trays Tubes Tuna Turkey Tyres Unformed Metals UV Plant Vacuum Formed Plastics Valve Bridges Vegetable Oil Vegetables Vehicles Vending Machines Vinyl Tiles Wafers and Cones Washing liquid Waste S pend S pecification S uppliers S upply Actuators Adaptors Adhesives Aerosol Cream Agency Staff Air Brakes Air-Grills Aluminium castings Apple Concentrate Assemblies Baby Wipes Bacon Bank Charges Bar Stock Batteries Bearings Beds Beef Beer Mats Bellows Belts Bin Liners Biscuits Blocks Boilers Bottled Water Brake Drums Breakers Brewing Syrup British Turkey Bucket Teeth Buckets Burgers Business Consumables Business Print Butter Cabin components Cakes Canned Pasta Capital Equipment Car Alarms Car rental Carbonates Cardboard Event Carriages Carrier Bags Casings and conductors Castings Cat Litter Catering Catering & Retail Powders CATV distribution Caustic Soda Chairs Charcoal Cheddar Cheese Chicken Chicken Wings Chips Christmas Puddings Cider Clamps Cleaning Products Close Die Forgings Coffee Coley Fish Fillets Concrete Conductors Connecting Rod Bolts Consumable Tooling Continental Cheese Cooked Chicken Cookies Copiers Corrugated Board Corrugated Paper Courier Services Cream portions Custard Castings Dairy Products Dampers Decals Desktop computers Diesel Dilatable drinks Dog Food Doors

10. Significant R.O.I. Is the Goal Fee “capped” Identified Savings Our fee is CONTINGENT; if we don’t find savings, we don’t charge you.

11. We Strive to WOW our Clients

12. Our Clients Are World-Class

13. TradingPartners CEO among Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine’s 2008 Pros to Know Marc Halpin And The Marketplace is Noticing.....

14. Why Should You Care? Economic Pressures Frozen/Falling Headcount Time Pressures “ Spent” Suppliers Most Businesses Faced With: TradingPartners Delivers*: Savings of 18% on Average Spot Staff Augmentation Quick Results to Realize Motivated Suppliers * With strategic by-products including transparency, accountability, and compliance

15. Europe Headquarters: 54 Jermyn Street London SW1Y 6LX Tel: +44 20 7261 0000 Fax: +44 20 7261 0066 www.tradingpartners.com/europe USA Headquarters: 311 South Wacker Drive 51 st Floor Chicago, IL 60606 Tel: +1 312 857 3000 Fax: +1 312 857 1870 www.tradingpartners.com/usa Asia Headquarters: 12/F Platinum 233 Tai Cang Road, Xintiandi Shanghai 200020 Tel: +86 21 51029096 Fax: +86 21 23010660 www.tradingpartners.com/asia