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April 9, 2003
Livewire Wins Top Kiosk Industry Excellence Award

Lift ticket-selling kiosks voted “Best of Breed” by industry insiders

Livewire Kiosk announced today that its Ski Lift Ticketing kiosk network has been chosen as the “Best Retail Kiosk Application” by the judges of the kiosk industry’s “Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards”. This award was given following final judging at the industry’s KioskCom trade show, held April 8-10, 2003 in Las Vegas. In a March 17th release, the trade group announced that Livewire was one of the five finalists for this prestigious honor, including BMW, Okidata, Circle K, and Travel Centers of America. The award was accepted by Livewire CTO David McCracken on Tuesday April 8th at a ceremony at the Riviera hotel in Las Vegas.

“The Interactive Kiosk Excellence Awards honor, recognize and promote the best kiosk implementations over the past year. They showcase the best kiosk applications and designs for the many industries that currently use interactive, self-service kiosks,” said KioskCom™ Executive Director, Lawrence Dvorchik. “The winners set the standards of excellence for future kiosk implementations.”

Roy Smith, Livewire’s President said, “We are delighted to be recognized in this way by the kiosk industry. Coupled with our stellar sales this ski season of over $4M worth of ski lift tickets and our recent retail deployments for Pfaltzgraff and Waypoint Bank, this award really puts the icing on the cake.”

“Since Livewire nearly went out of business as a direct result of the events of 9/11, it is particularly satisfying for us to achieve this type of success, reaffirming the resiliency of the entrepreneurial spirit in the United States. I want to commend our employees, investors, suppliers, partners, and customers for sticking it out and helping to make this dramatic turnaround possible. This year we will continue our growth by expanding our ski ticket market geographically in Utah, Nevada, California and New England and by providing robust, functional and profitable systems to our retail kiosk customers. “

Founded in 1998, Livewire specializes in deploying web-enabled self-service kiosks in retail stores. Livewire is known for its expertise in developing kiosks for the retail environment, with deployments in 25 states nationwide. The company is the leading self-service ticketing provider to the U.S. ski industry. Its Colorado-based network of kiosks sell tickets for over 100,000 skier days per season.

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