To: investorserv. who wrote (56 ) 8/7/2000 12:48:56 PM From: investorserv. Respond to of 106 America's Largest Small-Cap Stock Expo Provides Chicago Chance to Look Over the Next Wave of Companies Jump to first matched term CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000--No matter the market gyrations today, there will come a time when investors will wish they'd bought some new hot stock of the new millennium back in the Summer of 2000. Brokers, analysts, fund managers, and sophisticated investors who hope to ride this new wave of successful shares onto the beach can review 25 serious hopefuls at the 13th Discovery Expo from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Aug. 10 in The Midland Hotel on West Adams Street at LaSalle. They'll see exhibitors in such diverse industries as wireless Internet, drug delivery, worldwide casino, some dot coms and many others. One company delivers software through the Internet to help software companies reduce their expenses and be more efficient, while another assists entrepreneurs in building an innovative, lucrative company. Attendees, who are admitted free with their business card, will have opportunities to meet the CEOs and CFOs face-to-face and ask them those hard questions. The whole show is geared toward making the discovery and research of young energetic companies easier for financial professionals and investors. Discover other small and midcap companies online at www.emerging equities.com. Emerging Equities is the discovery financial portal Web site for small cap investors. Unique Event This 13th in a unique series of Discovery Expos was organized by The Investment Reporter, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based financial newspaper to bring together underdiscovered companies with high-profile growth fund managers, analysts, stockbrokers and sophisticated investors in a one-day event. "The financial world definitely needs to find growing companies whose shares have strong upside potential, and these companies want to be discovered," said John Robbins, publisher of the 12-year-old Investment Reporter and host of the Discovery Expos. Sponsors of the Expo include: Business Wire, Standard & Poor's, AGS Specialist Partners, The Boston Stock Exchange, The Investment Reporter, and Emerging Equities.com. Participating Companies Among the companies appearing at Expo '00 are: ClearWorks.net Inc. (AMEX:CLW); Eagle Wireless International Inc. (AMEX:EAG); Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:BJCT); Century Casinos Inc. (Nasdaq:CNTY); Clarion Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:CLAR); Community Bancorp Inc. (Nasdaq:CMBC); Cowlitz Bancorporation (Nasdaq:CWLZ); Digital River (Nasdaq:DRIV); First Mutual Bancshares Inc. (Nasdaq:FMSB); First Washington Bancorp (Nasdaq:FWWB); FirstBank NW Corp. (Nasdaq:FBNW); Generex Biotechnology Corp. (Nasdaq:GNBT); Mountain Province Mining Inc. (Nasdaq:MPVI); Nara Bank (Nasdaq:NARA); PBOC Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:PBOC); Northrim Bank (Nasdaq:NRIM); SafeScience Inc.(Nasdaq:SAFS); United Security Bancorporation (Nasdaq:USBN); VIB Corp. (Nasdaq:VIBC); Washington Banking Co. (Nasdaq:WBCO); WD-40 Co. (Nasdaq:WDFC); Wilshire State Bank (Nasdaq:WSBK); Cryopak Industries Inc. (OTCBB:CYPKF); Elite Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:ETCH); Hanmi Financial Corp. (OTCBB:HAFC); iQ Power Technology Inc. (OTCBB:IQPR); JustWebit.com Inc. (OTCBB:JWIT); Kidstoysplus.com Inc. (OTCBB:KTYP); M&A West Inc. (OTCBB:MAWI) ; OnVANTAGE Inc. (OTCBB:ONVT); PCsupport.com Inc. (OTCBB:PCSP); Surgical Safety Products Inc. (OTCBB:SURG); VentureNet Inc. (OTCBB:VNTN.OB); VirtualSellers.com (OTCBB:VDOT); FireTelecommunications Corp. (NQB:FITC); W3OTC.COM Inc. (NQB:WOTC); and The Energy Group Inc. Note to Editors: Nasdaq and OTC Bulletin Board are registered trademarks of the National Association of Securities Dealers. CONTACT: Liz Prather (pre-expo), 949/724-0444 or John Robbins (at expo)