<i>Lawn & Landscape</i> Media Group and PlantFind.com Form Strategic Partnership

CLEVELAND/BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - The Lawn & Landscape Media Group, the market leader in trade publications serving the rapidly growing professional lawn care and landscape contracting industry, and PlantFind.com, a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the green professional, announced the decision to form a strategic marketing partnership. The marketing partnership will specifically be between Lawn & Landscape magazine and PlantFind.com.

Over the last 21 years, the Lawn & Landscape Media Group, a division of Cleveland-based communications company GIE Media, has offered business managers the information they need to succeed in the horticultural business. The magazine reaches 71,000 monthly subscribers and covers the critical lawn and landscape market trends and management issues, providing the necessary resources for readers to gain the competitive advantage in its market. Its dynamic Web site, www.lawnandlandscape.com, offers daily news updates, pesticide label search capabilities, personalization, downloadable archives, and an RFQ marketplace. The magazine also sponsors a variety of industry educational conferences and trade shows geared to interior and exterior landscape professionals, including the Lawn & Landscape School of Management, the Lawn & Landscape Business Strategies Conference and the Interior Business Conference & Trade Show.

"The tools that PlantFind.com has, and is developing, are exactly the type of tools that we have looked for in a partnership and that we can bring to our subscribers to help enhance their business without putting a dent in their pocket," said Richard Foster, CEO and president of GIE Media. "This now allows our customers to take full advantage of the Internet. We are excited and enthusiastic about being a part of the PlantFind.com team."

"PlantFind.com delivers some of the best e-commerce solutions, such as our enhanced request for quote system, marketplace and industry software, to the green industry," explained Michael Ferraro, president of PlantFind.com. "This partnership is in-line with our business strategy to bring the best partnerships and the best minds together that will assist the nursery and landscape industry in education and take full advantage of the Internet as an everyday tool."

PlantFind.com is a leading provider of (B2B) e-commerce solutions for the wholesale green industry, currently offering in excess of 238 million individual plant listings from more than 1,700 growers. PlantFind.com is the premier online vertical marketplace for the wholesale green goods industry. Plantfind offers flexible e-commerce solutions that include: electronic procurement and bid submission, online auction for excess inventory, catalogue aggregation, and comprehensive customer support programs, enabling greater levels of productivity for the commercial green industry. For additional information visit www.PlantFind.com or call 877-473-3363 or email info@PlantFind.com.

In addition to Lawn & Landscape, the Lawn & Landscape Media Group also publishes Interior Business magazine, Snow Business magazine, Irrigation Business & Technology, GIE Expo Extra and The Green Industry Products & Services Guide. Each magazine reaches the full range of decision-makers in the professional lawn and landscape marketplace. For additional information visit www.lawnandlandscape.com or call 216-961-4130.