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EXCEPTIONAL GROWTH AND TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP MARK 2006 FOR LITLE & CO., LLC

Company Attributes 110 Percent Revenue Growth to Unmatched Market Knowledge and Innovative Use of Technology

LOWELL, MA - March 26, 2007 - Litle & Co., a leading payment processor for direct marketing merchants, today announced that it achieved triple-digit growth in 2006, continuing the tremendous momentum it built through 2005. During 2006, the company won a number of prestigious awards, including the number 1 ranking on Inc. Magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing private companies in the United States, the number 1 ranking on Deloitte & Touche's Technology Fast 50: New England for achieving technological excellence and rapid revenue growth, the number 3 ranking on Deloitte & Touche's National Fast 500 ranking of fast-growing technology companies, and a CIO 100 award for the company's ground-breaking use of information technology. During the five-year period that ended in 2005, the company's revenue increased at an average annual rate of 33,683% to $34.8 million.

In 2006, Litle & Co. continued to achieve rapid revenue growth through the implementation of leading-edge Information Technology. The company increased its net revenues in 2006 by more than 110% over 2005, grew its customer base by 70% and installed new Information Technology systems that will provide a springboard for its future success. The most important new technology introduced by the company in 2006 is the Litle Analytics Platform which is a series of data mining and interpretive analytical software tools that allows the company and its customers to monitor, measure and benchmark each customer's financial and operations performance against both its own history as well as against the performance of similar companies. Other key Information Technology introduced by the company in 2006 includes: enhanced integration with Visa and MasterCard that will result in advanced service offerings and lower costs for the company's customers, and deployment of cutting-edge systems architecture that resulted in a 10X increase in scalability while simultaneously supporting the company's service-oriented architecture that includes multiple data centers, highly fault tolerant processing systems and redundant databases.

"It is amazing to pause and reflect on the momentum we have added over the past year. At the end of the day our business is all about making direct marketing merchants successful and helping them grow their businesses. Everything we do reflects that," said Thomas J. "Tim" Litle, Chairman of Litle & Co. "With this unwavering focus on the customer and unmatched market knowledge, we will continue to drive growth and set new standards for the payment processing industry."

Litle & Co. provides "Card Not Present" payment processing solutions for direct marketers using the most advanced Information Technology in the payment processing industry. Litle & Co.'s technology platform - which is a Software as a Service delivery model - makes use of cutting-edge hardware and software technologies. And while most payment processor's IT systems are burdened by complex combinations of modern technology and outdated legacy systems, Litle & Co.'s IT infrastructure is continuously updated with the latest available technology. Litle's ability to continuously deploy new technologies comes in part from the company's adoption of Agile Programming, a methodology in which software developers are paired for all programming tasks, development cycles are four weeks or less, and relentless "refactoring" allows for constant improvement of the IT platform. The short development cycles and refactoring aspects of the methodology allow the company to upgrade its core technology as faster software and more improved hardware become available.

Founded by pioneers of the payment processing industry, Litle & Co. has leveraged its depth of experience in the payment processing and direct marketing industries to provide unmatched features and functionality. Every aspect of the system has been designed with an intimate knowledge of direct marketing and every feature has been tailored to meet the unique needs of direct marketers. From flexible online reporting to XML-based communications to automated transaction handling, the company's payment solutions provide better, faster and cheaper service to direct marketers. And because the online reporting system provides full transparency into payments data, Litle & Co.'s payment processing solutions are helping leading direct marketing merchants to increase revenue by reducing declined authorizations and eliminating customer frustration.

About Litle & Co., LLC

Litle & Co was founded in 2001 by payment and direct marketing industry leaders and is the only payment processing company focused exclusively on direct marketers. The combination of new technology with a fresh approach to payment processing systems development, result in a next generation payment processor that simultaneously provides more services to Direct Commerce Merchants while reducing their maintenance costs and giving them more flexibility and options. Our solutions are tailored to merchants' individual needs, without any hidden fees or arbitrary charges. For more information about Litle & Co., visit www.litle.com.