August 25, 1999

Monarch Offers Colorado® Owners Trade Up to Pointcarré Software

Glendale, New York ? Monarch Design Systems (www.monarchcad.com) announces a special limited time offer to current owners of Colorado® software to trade up to Monarch’s popular Pointcarré® software and receive a generous discount off of the regular price. Pointcarré 6, the newest version of the design software that has the apparel and textile industries talking, is a comprehensive and customizable graphic design package which opens a world of unlimited creative choices to the designer. Pointcarré delivers even more features and functionality than far more expensive systems for: Sketching; Wovens; Textile Prints and Knits; Stripes and Plaids; Storyboards; Sales/Merchandising Materials; Colorway Samples; Fabric Simulations; and Automating Design.

There is a lot of uneasiness in the marketplace as a result of the recent surge of CAD vendor acquisitions and corporate consolidation, said David Matsil, Managing Director for Monarch. In the face of this upheaval, our customers are at ease in the knowledge that Monarch will remain independent and stable, as it has for the past 11 years. Being a division of a privately owned parent company, our product integrity, development and support remains unaffected by the uncertainty that is arising from merging companies, product lines, software development and support teams of our competitors. We are making this trade up offer so that Colorado customers can enjoy the security, superior software and service that Monarch provides and at significant savings. Additionally, all of our products, including Pointcarré, are, and always have been, fully Y2K-compliant.

Details of the trade up offer are as follows:

1. Offer is extended to current owners of Colorado Print Design Software, sold in the U.S. by AVL® and Infomax®, only.

2. Monarch will provide a 30% price reduction, up to a value of $4,500 U.S., off the purchase of the first package of Pointcarré software.

3. Colorado software owners must show proof of ownership to Monarch to qualify for this offer.

4. Generous multiple copy discounts on Pointcarré are available.

5. Offer is extended to new Monarch customers only.

6. Offer expires 11/24/99.

Additional information is available by contacting Monarch at 718.894.8520.