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To: KZAP who wrote (721)	1/6/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: GARY P GROBBEL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1530

SIRC up .25 to 2.00...ran to 4.00 a few days ago...this looks good: Sirco Announces WebQuill's Plans for 48 Virtual State Malls STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1999--Sirco International Corp. (NASDAQ: SIRC - news) announced today that its wholly owned Internet subsidiary, WebQuill Internet Services, has reserved domain names for 48 State specific virtual malls. Each planned site will target small businesses in a specific State and use the same domain template of www.xx-search.com, such as www.ct-search.com for Connecticut. WebQuill intends to market these sites in conjunction with its affiliated CLEC companies, Essex Communications and Access One Communications. The three entities currently provide services to approximately 10,000 small business customers. Henry Azer, president of WebQuill stated, ''The virtual malls will provide our customers with a low cost entry point into the world of E-Commerce. For as little as $24.95 a month, and no up front investment, a small business owner will receive three professionally designed Web pages, free e-mail and a well defined upgrade path to our higher end services such as our E-Complete with its fully integrated fulfillment service.'' Azer continued, ''We were fortunate to have been able to reserve 48 States with the same domain format. This uniformity will facilitate our promotion of the sites to Internet users.'' Ken Baritz, chairman and CEO of Access One added, ''We intend to aggressively market these virtual malls to our base of small business customers. Through the bundling of Web Hosting, Internet Access, Local and Long Distance Telecommunications services, we can now offer our customers a complete suite of communications services.'' WebQuill Internet Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sirco International Corp., provides Web design, Web hosting, E-Commerce development and dial-up and dedicated Internet access to small, medium and large businesses. Access One Communications, which first began selling local telephone services in 1996, is a Florida based competitive local exchange carrier which provides an integrated suite of telecommunications products to small and medium sized businesses in the southeastern United States. Sirco International Corp. is a diversified publicly traded company with operations organized into two divisions. Sirco's telecommunications division focuses on developing integrated telephone service in the competitive local exchange carrier industry. Sirco's travel division designs, imports and markets luggage, sport bags, backpacks and children's bags and related products. This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The company's actual results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such a difference include, among others, general economic and business conditions; industry trends; the loss of major customers; changes in demand for the company's product; the timing of orders received from customers; dependence on third party sources of supply; the loss of licenses; availability of management; availability, terms and deployment of capital; and changes in state or federal governmental regulations of telecommunications services. Contact: Access One Communications Ken Baritz, 954/714-0000 kbaritz@accessone.org or WebQuill Henry Azer, 203/750-1000 haz@webquill.com