CBORD Partners with Group Purchasing Organization Amerinet

For Immediate Release

Ithaca, New York—The CBORD Group, Inc., the leading provider of food and nutrition management and cashless card systems to healthcare facilities, announced it has once again partnered with Amerinet, a group purchasing organization that promotes quality healthcare delivery while more effectively managing expenses.

Through this partnership, Amerinet will offer its members exclusive pricing on a variety of CBORD's food, nutrition, and cashless service solutions through April 2010.

Amerinet understands the importance of a strong operating margin for every healthcare facility. For this reason, Amerinet partners with suppliers such as CBORD^®, whose products generate new revenue opportunities while simultaneously reducing operating costs and increasing patient safety.

"CBORD has a long history of delivering innovative products that provide safety, value, and revenue opportunities to our members," stated Tom Wessling, Vice President of Nutrition and Facility Services at Amerinet. "We are excited to have CBORD as a partner for food service, nutrition, and cashless software solutions. This agreement demonstrates CBORD's ongoing commitment to providing Amerinet members with high-quality products and industry-leading support and training services."

Healthcare providers of all sizes partner with Amerinet to improve their operating margins. More than 2,200 acute care and 25,000 non-acute care health systems take advantage of Amerinet's vast network. CBORD solutions will provide Amerinet members with the latest technology and automation solutions to enhance performance, reduce overall labor, control food cost, improve inventory management, increase revenue, and enhance patient and customer satisfaction at their facilities.

"Amerinet members will benefit from highly competitive pricing on CBORD's food and nutrition service systems, along with CBORD's cashless systems," said Ralph Prichard, CBORD's National Program Manager. "Many Amerinet members already use CBORD systems and can share their knowledge and experience with others. We value this relationship and look forward to building on our existing program with Amerinet."

About The CBORD Group

The CBORD Group serves healthcare facilities, colleges and universities, chain restaurants, supermarkets, continuing care facilities, corporations, and a host of other market segments. CBORD's products are used in food service, catering, nutrition services, online ordering, cashless dining, campus ID card privilege control, access control, integrated security, housing services, and other institution-wide activities. The CBORD Group serves more than 6,000 clients in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand, and Australia.

The CBORD Group was founded in 1975. Today it employs more than 475 professionals. To learn more about CBORD, visit us at www.cbord.com.

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