Transcom creates two new senior positions

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TRANSCOM CREATES TWO NEW SENIOR POSITIONS Transcom WorldWide S.A., the European CRM specialist, today announced the creation of two new senior positions. Jon Fitch will join Transcom as Chief Technology Officer and Steve Britton will join as Sales and Marketing Director. They will start their respective roles on 7 July 2003. Jon Fitch joins Transcom from Mindpearl AG, an international specialist provider of customer contact solutions, where he has been IT and Operations Director since 1999. Jon has extensive management experience in the CRM technology field, in particular through developing a multi- site call center in six continents with over 1000 employees. Prior to Mindpearl, Jon worked for Swissair and British Airways. He has also won several industry awards for technical innovation. As Chief Technology Officer for Transcom, Jon will be responsible for Transcom's existing technology and IT functions and all future technological research and implementation programs. Steve Britton joins Transcom from TeleTech Holdings Inc, a global provider of outsourced customer management solutions, where he headed a new business development team focusing on the retail, telco and IT sectors. In addition he was responsible for developing TeleTech's European solutions partnership program. With previous positions at US based e-billing/payment and e-care solutions provider DCTI, and call center/CRM solutions company ETSI Inc. amongst others, Steve has over 18 years experience in sales. Steve's primary responsibility will be to develop business with new clients. Keith Russell, CEO of Transcom WorldWide, commented: "With the rapid growth of the company to 34 centers across Europe and North Africa it became necessary to create two new roles dedicated entirely to giving an international focus to technology and sales development. We are pleased to have identified two key players from the industry to oversee what are pivotal areas in our CRM business". For further information please contact: Keith Russell, President and CEO +352 27 755 000 Dwayne Taylor, Investor Enquiries +44 20 7321 5010 Transcom WorldWide is a rapidly expanding Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution provider, with 34 centers employing more than 7,800 people delivering services to 18 countries - Luxembourg, Sweden, France, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Morocco, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the UK. The company provides CRM solutions for companies in a wide range of industry sectors, including telecommunications and e-commerce, travel & tourism, retail, financial services and utilities. Transcom offers clients a broad array of relationship management services, including inbound and outbound call handling, Interactive Voice Response, Internet Services, e-mail processing and fax broadcast. Client programs are tailor-made and range from single applications to complex programs, which are offered on a country-specific or international basis in up to 38 languages. Transcom WorldWide S.A.'A' and 'B' shares are listed on the Stockholmsbörsen O-List under the symbols TWWA and TWWB. This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements" with respect to our expectations and plans, strategy, management's objectives, future performance, costs, revenues, earnings and other trend information. It is important to note that our actual results in the future could differ materially from those anticipated in forward- looking statements depending on various important factors. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based on information available to us on the date hereof. All written or oral forward-looking statements attributable to Transcom WorldWide, any Transcom WorldWide members or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the factors referred to above. We do not intend to update these forward-looking statements. ------------------------------------------------------------ This information was brought to you by Waymaker http://www.waymaker.net The following files are available for download: http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/07/04/20030703BIT00740/wkr0001.doc http://www.waymaker.net/bitonline/2003/07/04/20030703BIT00740/wkr0002.pdf

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