fine.com CEO Dan Fine Wins 1999 Entrepreneur of the Year Award

Business Wire, June 28, 1999

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 1999--

This past Thursday Dan Fine, chief executive officer of fine.com International Corp. (Nasdaq:FDOT) was recognized for his entrepreneurial leadership of fine.com.

In an awards banquet held at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Ernst and Young LLP named Fine the 1999 Northwest Internet Services Entrepreneur of the Year.

Fine, founder of fine.com, was one of eight winners selected from twenty-two finalists. The finalists were some of the Northwest's emerging leaders, including Steven Gillis of Corixa Corporation, Naveen Jain of InfoSpace.com, Inc., Russell C. Horowitz of Go2Net, Inc., Terry Drayton of HomeGrocer.com, and Nick Hanauer of Avenue A Media.

"The Entrepreneur of the Year award really attests to the great team at fine.com. This past year has been challenging and the award validates their hard work, quality and never-say-never attitude," stated Fine. "Our company wouldn't be the industry leader it is today without their dedication and belief in the Internet. We are honored to be recognized by such a prestigious award."

The Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards are considered the premier event for honoring entrepreneurs in the United States. The awards take place during the month of June in 47 cities around the country. Winners are selected by blue-ribbon panels of judges composed of community, business and civic leaders, as well as prior award winners. All regional award recipients are eligible to compete in the national Entrepreneur of the Year awards event.

About fine.com International

fine.com International Corp. is a leading provider of integrated e-commerce and interactive response communication services that combine the Web with communications and business process automation solutions. fine.com clients include leading Global 1000 companies and other market leaders.

The Company was founded by Dan Fine in 1994 and became publicly traded in 1997. Fine was recently named the 1999 Washington State Small BusinessPerson of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration and awarded the Einstein Technology award from the government of Israel. fine.com has recently been named the Better Business Bureau / KVI May 1999 Business of the Month and the No. 5 Fastest Growing Public Company in the State of Washington by the Puget Sound Business Journal. On May 17, 1999, fine.com entered into a definitive agreement with ARIS Corporation (Nasdaq:ARSC), a leading provider of international IT consulting, training and software, for the acquisition by ARIS of fine.com. The transaction is expected to close in the third calendar quarter of 1999.

For more information about fine.com, please visit www.fine.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that would cause results of operations to differ materially from management's expectations. For more information about important factors that bear on the Company's operations and prospects, the reader is referred to the risk factors set forth in the Company's prospectus dated August 11, 1997, and its Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, as amended, for fiscal year ended January 31, 1999, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as factors discussed in the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB. The SEC maintains a Web site that contains registration statements, reports and other information regarding registrants (including fine.com International Corp.) that file electronically with the SEC. The address of the SEC's Web site is www.sec.gov.