ICI PAINTS DRIVES SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE THROUGH MANUFACTURING EFFICIENCY WITH INFORMANCE

Leading global paint manufacturer deploys Informance Enterprise Edition.

REDWOOD CITY, CA — November 2, 2007 — ICI Paints, a leading international decorative paint manufacturer, recently deployed the Informance Enterprise Edition, a manufacturing business intelligence solution by Informance, a leader in Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI) solutions, to drive strategic enterprise performance initiatives and continue driving supply chain excellence. ICI Paints will leverage Informance to collect data, derive insight and discover correlations of tactical and strategic actions. ICI Paints will also use Informance to identify and measure key performance indicators (KPIs) within and across manufacturing facilities on an ongoing basis.

"Informance gives us visibility into all of the facilities across our plant network to drive operational success," comments Steve Belke, Vice President, Supply Chain for ICI Paints. "They are a crucial partner to help measure our key performance indicators — the Informance solution set is a prerequisite for success in our ongoing strategic initiatives."

As a global paint manufacturer with one of the widest geographical reaches of any paint business, ICI Paints closely monitors and takes action on opportunities to unlock capacity and enhance supply chain performance. Informance delivers business intelligence for manufacturing operations so that everyone throughout the plant, the plant network and the enterprise focuses on the operating strategies and execution tactics that enable transformational improvements.

"Informance is honored to work with ICI Paints in support of their strategic projects," said Sunil Singh, CEO and President of Informance International. "We enjoy helping companies like ICI Paints that want to build on and accelerate their improvement initiatives and are eager to leverage the power of business intelligence for manufacturing performance management."

Using Informance, manufacturing teams can drive corporate initiatives like Lean, Six Sigma, TPM, and other continuous improvement methods. Informance enables business executives, plant management and improvement professionals to understand issues and performance metrics within business context, which is essential to critical decision making. As an additional layer of support, Informance offers deep domain expertise and insight with industry and cross-industry benchmark analyses to help world-class manufacturers sustain and build on performance gains. Informance aligns with improvement programs so that manufacturing professionals and enterprise management can view operational metrics and performance in order to make fast, informed decisions and make appropriate adjustments throughout the plant or across the network. They focus on the changes and improvements that will have the greatest impact on operational and financial performance, and then track progress against their initiatives.

About ICI Paints
ICI Paints is part of the ICI Group, one of the world's largest producers of specialty products and paints. ICI Paints worldwide has 49 manufacturing sites in 25 countries and more than 15,000 employees. Headquartered in Strongsville, Ohio, ICI Paints' North American operations produce widely respected and tradition rich decorative coatings brands such as Glidden™, Dulux®, Ralph Lauren®, Devoe®, Fuller O'Brien®, C-I-L™, Color Your World™ and Liquid Nails® caulks and adhesives. Products are sold through ICI Paints company stores, national retail outlets and independent paint dealers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico and are also exported internationally. ICI Paints is an official corporate partner of Major League Soccer, and the Glidden brand is the official paint of Major League Soccer. To learn more about ICI Paints, visit www.icipaints.com/northamerica.

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