• Current and new Trade Service subscribers will earn a rebate on all the services purchased from Trade Service.
• The current billing arrangement will not change.
• Trade Service will continue to bill A-D affiliates and Affiliates will continue to pay Trade Service directly.
• Rebates will be remitted to A-D on a monthly basis.
• Rebates will range from 2% to 10% depending on content received.

If you are not already a Trade Service subscriber, you will want to talk to them about how their services can:

• Streamline your price updating process.
• Provide a complete catalog within your enterprise system.
• Provide enriched electronic catalog content, including images and cut sheets for your web storefront solution.
• Make your internal operations more efficient and customer driven.

Comments from a few A-D affiliates who subscribe to Trade Service products:

"I've been using Trade Service's eDataFlex pricing service since mid-2003. Productivity has been greatly enhanced by being able to seamlessly update my 46,000+ active SKU's in a more timely and concise manner through a simple mapping into my Prophet 21 system. Profitability also gets a boost: Invoices that used to wait for updated pricing can now go out on the day scheduled, with the current price. Frankly, it's taken the worry out of wondering what data I'm getting or when it's coming. Each week I simply go to a secure web site, log in my password, and download the information into my system."

Ron Overton, Marketing Manager
Henry A. Petter Supply Company
roverton@pettersupply.com

"We've been successfully using the pricing services available from Trade Service for many years now. We're able to maintain accurate and current UPC numbers which ensures smooth updating processes from Trade Service, and also aligns us with our suppliers, which is critical with EDI. We also take advantage of their custom data services as we build out the catalog that resides in our Internet storefront for specific customers. To-date, Trade Service has developed technical attributes for about 5,000 items for our catalog, including searchable product descriptions and links to color images."

Tony Newberg, Senior Vice President
Dealers Electrical Supply
anewbe@dealerselectrical.com

Trade Service provides services for US and Canadian Affiliates. Please contact Mary Melton at 1-858-521-1554 or email her at mary_melton@tradeservice.com for information on subscribing to Trade Service products.

About Trade Service
Trade Service Corporation is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, government agencies and “buy side” Fortune 1000 subscribers. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts. For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com.