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For Immediate Release

World Wide Technology Holding Company to Exhibit at the 2003 National Minority Development Council Business Opportunity Fair in Chicago on October 27.

St. Louis, Missouri – October 3, 2003 – World Wide Technology Holding Company, parent company of World Wide Technology Inc., Telcobuy.com and SDE Business Partnering announced today that they will be exhibiting at the upcoming 2003 National Minority Development Council (NMSDC) Business Opportunity Fair and Conference in Chicago, Illinois October 27 in booths 317 and 319.

This is the largest national procurement event of its kind, and is attended by hundreds of key purchasing people and the top minority businesses in the country. The fair allows minority business owners to cluster numerous sales calls in one day with dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

The theme for this year's event is "Minority Businesses and Corporate America: Leveraging Alliances to Energize the Global Economy" and will be held at McCormick Place Lakeside Center in Chicago.

To learn more about this event or to register for the conference, please visit the NMSDC web site at http://www.nmsdc.org/events/conference.html.

About World Wide Technology (WWT)

Founded in 1990, WWT Holding is a leading electronic procurement and logistics company in the information technology industry. WWT Holding, with its industry-specific operating companies - WWT, Telcobuy.com and SDE Business Partnering-specializes in helping customers rapidly build and deploy technology infrastructure in a timely, cost-effective manner.

WWT's electronic procurement and logistics capabilities combine procurement services and logistics functions with state-of-the-art information systems technology, building upon WWT's success as a premier value-added reseller in the information technology industry. This allows partners to focus on core competencies while maximizing supply chain efficiencies. Both customers and partners benefit from having WWT, a proven distribution and logistics company, manage their inventory while at the same time gaining access to WWT's web-based procurement, inventory management and deployment management applications.

WWT has headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, with remote sales and distribution facilities in Plano, Texas; Austin, Texas; Livermore, California; Aberdeen, Maryland; Nashville, Tennessee; Detroit, Michigan; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Reno, Nevada; and McLean, Virginia. For more information, please visit us at http://www.wwt.com.