Rubric Announces 8th Consecutive Year of Profitability

Fiscal Year 2002 Marked by Strong Customer Relationships

Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Rubric, a leading provider of localization and translation services, has announced its 8th consecutive year of profitability with its most recent fiscal year, which came to a close at the end of November, 2002. In addition, the company has announced that it achieved a 100% customer retention rate, continuing to work with all companies that began the year with Rubric and thus maintaining Rubric's strong tradition of long-term customer relationships.

The strong financial performance over eight years is unprecedented in the industry. This past year's achievement was due to these solid customer relationships, growth in several strategic markets, as well as complementary cost-cutting and workflow optimization. Rubric continues to be a leader in the industry in terms of streamlining the localization process and reducing customers' time-to-market. Rubric's financial management has long been a strong point, and Rubric's achievement this past year was especially significant in light of its ability to reduce rates to reflect continually increasing efficiency gains, and in light of the weak economy in areas such as technology in 2002.

Rubric's continued financial strength enables the company to take a long-term view, invest in technology improvements regularly and focus on each customer's specific needs, thus assisting customers to expand their business and compete globally.

About Rubric
Rubric assures a better localization experience. Specializing in globalization services for the high technology industry, Rubric brings flexibility, on-demand scalability, and integrity to guarantee localization success. Rubric's refined processes adapt to the high tech sector's need for proactive localization planning, anticipation of dynamically changing requirements, and agile response capabilities. For more information, visit www.rubric.com.