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01/29/02

Metamend Joins Team Canada Trade Mission to Russia and Germany

(Victoria, BC) Metamend confirmed today the company will send a representative to participate in the upcoming Team Canada Trade Mission to Russia and Germany, February 13-21, 2002.

The trade mission will be led by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and will visit Moscow, Berlin and Munich. The Prime Minister will be joined by provincial premiers, territorial leaders and business executives from across the country.

The Canadian business delegation is drawn from several priority sectors, including agriculture and agri-food, construction, educational technologies and services, energy, environmental industries and technologies, health and financial services, information and communication technologies, and transportation.

Metamend CEO, Richard Zwicky will represent his company and has several meetings scheduled in Moscow and Munich with selected Telecommunications and Technology leaders.

"We are honoured to once again be participating as a member of Team Canada," said Zwicky. "We hope to open some very large doors for our SEO Technology into the European market. Our technology is being adopted by the hosting and telecommunications sectors throughout North America, and we have received substantial interest from Europe. We expect to use this opportunity to augment our growth within the European market."

"In our last experience with Team Canada," says Zwicky, "the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, led by Minister Pettigrew did an outstanding job ensuring that the local and national corporations who were suitable for us to deal with, and to export our technology to, were present at the meetings, and were properly introduced. We look forward to the same level of support on this, and future export oriented endeavours."

"Many years ago the ideal of 'Buy Canadian' was strongly supported by the Government and business community within our country. The Team Canada missions are helping get the 'Buy Canadian' rallying cry out internationally, in a manner that is based on common sense business principles."

In 2000, Canada's two-way trade with Russia and Germany reached nearly $870 million and $11 billion, respectively. Russia's expanding and increasingly open economy presents significant commercial opportunities for Canadian business. Germany is a key investment partner with Canada, with over $10 billion invested between the two countries in important sectors as such aerospace, information technology, automotive, financial and pharmaceutical services.

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