LSI Communications Signs Letter of Intent To Acquire Coaching Institute; World Leader in Coaching is Perfect Compliment to Technology

Business Wire, March 9, 1999

DRAPER, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 1999--LSI Communications, Inc. (OTC BB:LSIM) announced today the signing of a letter of intent to acquire Coaching Institute Inc. of Salt Lake City, Utah.

Coaching Institute is one of the nation's leaders in professional coaching and is growing at a phenomenal rate. Sales increased 39.8% from the third quarter of 1998 to the fourth quarter of 1998.

Coaching is an extremely effective method of improving business and personal performance. Although a relatively new industry, coaching has been featured in popular magazines such as Nation's Business, Business 98, Upline, Cutting Edge, and Inc. Additionally, newspapers from throughout the country have written about this fast-paced, dynamic industry. Coaching was also recently featured on "CBS This Morning."

Coaching Institute Inc., is a pioneer in this high growth industry. Clients include recognized leaders in the real estate industry such as Automation Quest and A.D. Kessler, national sales trainers such as Omar Periu, RE Marketing and Leap World Team, motivational speakers such as Rory Aplanalp and John Furman, along with many other corporate clients showing success rates exceeding 90%.

"Coaching Institute's is not only a perfect compliment to our technology offering," says Craig Hendricks, President of LSI Communications, "but it also provides a very effective distribution channel with its fine partner network. We look forward to having Coaching Institute as a part of our organization."

Recently, LSI Communications and its subsidiary, Warever Corporation announced the release of Legion(TM), a software program designed to help you make your Internet experience faster and easier. The software is compatible with Microsoft Explorer(TM) (NASDAQ:MSFT), Netscape Navigator(TM) (NASDAQ:NSCP) or Communicator(TM), as well as the many other on-line services such as America Online (NASDAQ:AOL), Prodigy (NASDAQ:PRGY), and CompuServe(TM).

With its continued diversification and growth, LSI Communications (OTC BB:LSIM) and its subsidiaries are committed to developing and providing the finest in technology, software, training and marketing.

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