SageGroup Strategies Press Releases

09/17/03 SageGroup Invites Additional Involvees for Its Two Major High-Priority Programs for Strategic Alliances and Medical Industries Expansion

New York, NY; and Alameda, CA - September 17, 2003 - The SageGroup organization announces that it is seeking many more involvees to participate in two of its already-successful major high-priority programs nationally and internationally. One is the SGS Strategic Alliances Program under which SG firm SageGroup Strategies is entering into strategic alliances with appropriate other entities. And, the other is the Medical Industries Program under which SG entities SGS and HMS are proactively expanding by various means within the Medical Industries. More details follow:

A) This SageGroup invitation is purposefully very broad geographically, including throughout the USA and throughout the world. This invitation is also purposefully very broad as to the invitees, including all current and potential SGS Associates, clients, strategic-alliance partners, affiliates, Offices, and other entities. Actual selected involvees will continue to be determined in an open, appropriate, and logical manner. There are major financial and other rewards available for all involvees.

B) The SGS Strategic Alliances Program is already doing very well, a reason being that other firms and companies easily see the great opportunities that they obtain through attractive working relationships with SGS, the largest Professional Troubled-Company Specialist firm in the USA and the world. The relationships are purposefully structured so that the other entities have many positives with no additional costs or risks. The usual features of a SGS strategic alliance are most or all of the following:

1) Referrals of clients by each firm to the other, usually for 10% referral fees;

2) SGS provides free marketing of the other firm, including through SGS press releases;

3) SGS bases a local SGS Office at the other firm's office, but usually without office space or access to the other firm's office without that firm's pre-approval;

4) The two firms will provide other services to each other when appropriate;

5) The two firms will proactively seek other mutually-beneficial ways to work together. SGS wishes and plans to enter into many more strategic alliances in the next few months.

C) The Medical Industries Program is also seeking many more involvees as it continues to move forward rapidly in various ways. One key participant is SGS's Medical Industries Division, which is seeking many more troubled medical companies to become SGS clients. Another key participant is HMS, which is a new SG entrepreneurial medical technology company now being turnkeyed nationally and internationally, with dual USA headquarters in Boston and Alameda. It has already entered into its first corporate development transaction, acquiring the worldwide exclusive product and marketing rights of HRL, a well-established international medical technology company in the Radiation Oncology area. HMS is strongly seeking additional:

1) Executives and advisors;

2) Financing intermediaries and principals;

3) Acquisitions and other corporate development transactions;

4) Customers and suppliers; and

5) Appropriate others.

D) Some potential next steps for all SGS Associates, strategic-alliance partners, and other invitees and involvees are:

1) Help to arrange a strategic alliance between SGS and another professional services firm, financing entity, or other entity that could encounter and/or help troubled companies. The initial step is for the other entity to review the SGS website, then be introduced to SGS Managing Director Larry Lindsey. He will then handle the remaining steps and paperwork, including: a) the exchange of materials; b) preparation and signing of an overall strategic-alliance agreement; c) preparation and issuance of one or more SGS press releases; and d) the appropriate other next steps.

2) Introduce troubled medical companies and troubled-company intermediaries to a SGS Medical Industries Division Co-Manager and/or to SGS's International Coordination Office.

3) Contact a HMS involvee (e.g., Howard Adamsky, Bill Cornett, Randy Friedman, Steve Haynes, Craig Kaufman, Manny Kyriannis, Larry Lindsey, Thomas Murray, Sali Peterson, Mariano Raigo, Greg Smith, Peter Welch, Paul Wilde, and others) about potential involvement in HMS's financing, staffing, and/or other priorities. Those interested in the financing activities should immediately send an email to Randy Friedman at Randy_Friedman@Hotmail.com for more information. (Paul Wilde and he are coordinating the HMS financing program, with support from certain others.)

4) Proactively become more involved in SGS activities in an appropriate and logical manner. SGS seeks to further increase the size and capabilities of its powerful large group of professionals, who are experts at helping troubled companies get out of trouble and move forward. SGS's staff includes over 600 highly-qualified specialists, such as: medical industries specialists; international business experts; global sourcing specialists; financing and financial experts; troubled-company experts; turnaround experts; marketing specialists; CPAs; attorneys; strategists; joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions experts; technologists; corporate executives; industry specialists; and others. SGS's staff has been involved in hundreds of difficult company situations, including: medical industries situations, global sourcing projects, international expansions, refinancings, turnarounds, crisis management, debtor programs, spin-outs, restructurings and reorganizations, and managed wind-downs and shut-downs.

ABOUT SAGEGROUP STRATEGIES
SageGroup Strategies is the largest Professional Troubled-Company Specialist firm in the United States and the world. Besides being very experienced and knowledgeable, SageGroup emphasizes being very discreet, working with absolute confidentiality and behind the scenes whenever necessary. As part of its strict confidentiality policies, SageGroup has never disclosed or publicized the names of its clients. More information about SageGroup Strategies is available at: http://www.SageGroupStrategies.com.

OVERALL COORDINATION CONTACT:
Larry Lindsey, Managing Director
International Coordination Office
SageGroup Strategies, Inc.
1370 Third Street, Suite 110
Alameda, CA 94501
(510) 865-2480 Phone
(510) 865-6654 Fax
SGS@SageGroupStrategies.com