Escher Group to showcase technologies at world's largest postal technology exhibition

Boston, Mass. – September 30, 2008 – Escher Group Ltd, the leading provider of counter automation and business applications to the postal industry, will be unveiling its latest offerings RiposteTrEX™, RiposteSaaS™, RiposteMCM™, and RTelemetry™ at this year’s Post-Expo in London. These new offerings address the multi-faceted role of the post in the modern electronic age.

RiposteTrEX™ is a business electronic mail system that replaces paper-based business mailings through the postal system by providing collection, clearance and delivery options through a closed access, secure messaging system that ensures electronic delivery of intact messages. RiposteTrEX is the next generation of the Riposte® messaging technology that has underpinned post office counter networks worldwide since 1993.

RiposteSaaS™ provides a cost-effective and flexible method for post offices to acquire the power of RiposteEssential™, Escher’s integrated POS (point-of-sale) solution. RiposteSaaS includes a set of modular applications supporting a broad range of retail and postal transactions that streamline business processes and provide the potential for increased revenue. RiposteSaas enables the rapid deployment of the modules where RiposteEssential is hosted as a service and provided to customers “on-demand”.

RiposteMCM™ enables post office customers to directly access, via the web, services that would otherwise require a visit to a post office outlet. These customers are able to log on to their account and view their available credit (supporting both a top-up and/or credit account model). They would then be able to perform a variety of postal transactions and print mailing labels and other supporting documentation right from their computer.

“Our new offerings will help posts leverage their brand, physical presence, workforce, legal structures and business relationships in order to provide solutions for communications dilemmas that face citizens, business, and government in this changing world,” stated Liam Church, president and CEO of Escher Group, Ltd.

In addition, Escher will also be showcasing its innovative post box monitoring solution, RTelemetry™, which helps post offices manage their next-day delivery commitments. RTelemetry is powered by iPostLogger™, a non-invasive, non-manual intervention device that records and transmits events occurring at the post box.

About Escher Group, Limited

Escher Group Limited is a leading provider of distributed transaction processing and data management solutions and services. The company offers a business-to-business XML-based transaction management environment, used in thousands of locations worldwide. Since its introduction in 1993, Riposte®, Escher's flagship messaging solution, has grown to become the market leader in post office counter automation.

Trademarks: WebRiposte and Riposte are trademarks or registered trademarks of Escher Group, Limited in the United States and/or other countries. All other product names mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective owners.

Company Overview

Founded in 1989, Escher Group is a world-class provider of retail and message-based software solutions and services. With offices in five countries across the globe, Escher Group consists of two principal operating divisions: a Retail Software Division and a Message Based Communications Division.

Escher Group’s Retail Division provides point of sale software. Escher’s core technology, Riposte® with RiposteEssential™, together provide a retail management solution to organizations which are seeking to widen their service offering, expand customer reach, reduce costs and increase operational efficiencies. In particular postal organizations have used Escher technologies to add lucrative new services, including bill collection, entitlement payments, licenses, retail sales and banking.

Escher also offers a mobile wallet, which is based on Near Field Communication (NFC), a fast-growing standard that permits device-to-device communication allowing for information collection, exchange payment processing, rewards, and smart postering.
                                                                                   
Escher’s Message Based Division delivers RiposteTrEx™, the only digital mailbox solution designed specifically to encourage citizens, businesses, governments and international agencies to collaborate securely online, on mobile devices and even through emerging social networking channels. The RiposteTrEx™ platform is delivered as a service for commercial business communication and to support the realisation of eGovernment citizen-centric strategies.

Escher Group software and technology solutions can be tailored to all kinds of businesses. Our core, distributed-messaging technology is currently in use at over 55,000 business locations in 30 countries worldwide. This distributed, transaction processing platform currently processes in excess of $900 billion annually with over 2.4 billion transactions per annum.

If your industry needs retail and message-based software that can handle high-volume, secure transactions within diverse, distributed computing environments, you need Escher Group.

Escher Group is part of Escher Group Holdings plc which trades on the London Stock Exchange.