CET Designer with the Haworth Canvas Extension Wins Best of NeoCon Silver Award

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan – June 12, 2006 – CET Designer with the Canvas Extension won a best of NeoCon Silver Award for software technologies at the annual industry trade show in Chicago. The award was give to Configura, Inc. and Haworth, Inc.
The first and only parametric and configuration-driven tool on the market, CET Designer addresses some of the most critical steps in the process of selecting and specifying office furniture and interiors. Through rapid graphical configuration, it creates layouts in 2D, 3D and/or in rendered form, bridging gaps in information communication among dealers, customers and specifiers. For dealers, it reduces cost and error, and improves quality and cycle time. For customers and specifiers, it offers truer views of layouts, easy and immediate changes, and faster access to information.

CET Designer is the foundation for the Haworth Canvas Extension. Canvas includes several product catalogs from Haworth, as well as specific functionality that allows Haworth and its dealers to customize CET Designer to meet their precise needs.
The Best of NeoCon competition honors new products introduced to the U.S. market since the close of the previous year’s competition. Award sponsors include Contract magazine, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA), the International Facility Management Association (IFMA), the McMorrow Report, and Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. Configura is on display the Configura exhibit, space 2017 on the eighth floor of the Merchandise Mart, during NeoCon 2006, June 12-14.

About Haworth, Inc.

Haworth, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of adaptable workspaces, including raised floors, movable walls, systems furniture, seating, storage and wood casegoods. Family-owned and privately held, Haworth is headquartered in Holland, Michigan, and serves markets in more than 120 countries through a global network of 600 dealers. The company had net sales of US $1. 4 billion in 2005. www.haworth.com

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Leading Office and Architectural Interior Company First to Choose CET Designer

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan and HOLLAND, Michigan – January 9, 2006 - After the enthusiastic response at the 2005 NeoCon show, where Configura first presented CET Designer to selected Haworth dealers, Haworth has agreed to partner with Configura.

Configura’s new state-of-the-art technology, CET Designer, is the foundation for the Haworth Canvas solution. CET Designer encompasses a wide range of functionality that makes it quick and easy to specify and quote configurable products.

As part of the partnership with Haworth, Configura has opened an office in Grand Rapids, MI. In addition to sales personnel and consultants, the office will be staffed with Help Desk personnel who will support Haworth dealers with CET Designer.

Since NeoCon, the Canvas project team has been adding functionality and loading their new Compose product into the software. Compose and Canvas will be available in January 2006 and more products will be loaded soon after.

According to Haworth Inc.'s Senior Vice President of Global Information Services Michael D. Moon, Partnering with Configura will enable us to support our dealers with a highly sophisticated, state-of-theart pecification tool. It will give both Haworth and its dealers front-edge advantages in today's very competitive market." He went on to say how Configura is uniquely capable of delivering timely, costeffective solutions, and that Haworth is looking forward to implementing CET Designer in North America.

“The fact that Haworth chose CET Designer is strong evidence that our competitive technology is utstanding when it comes to organizing an efficient and automated sales process," says Johan Lyreborn, CEO of Configura Sverige AB.

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Configura Launches CET Designer

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan – January 1, 2006 – After the successful introduction of CET Designer for kitchens in Scandinavia during 2004, Configura now introduces CET Designer on the North American office furniture market. The first office furniture manufacturer to support and provide its products for CET Designer is Haworth Inc., a global supplier of office furniture products.

CET Designer marks a new era for space planning software. CET Designer offers a complete solution for creating proposals, space plans and visualizations of commercial furniture and kitchen products. Just as importantly, the software makes the sales process error-free, more efficient and enhances the designer's ability to quickly and effortlessly learn new product systems.

CET Designer is one part of a more comprehensive concept called Configura CET. Other components in the CET concept are tools and portals for the development, marketing and distribution of extensions.

For more information, please visit www.cet-extensions.net.