Broderbund Expands Desktop Publishing With the Print Shop 15 Line

Business Wire, Sept 5, 2002

About Broderbund

Broderbund LLC, recently acquired by Riverdeep Group plc, is the leading publisher of home productivity and digital media software products. Its brands, including The Print Shop, PrintMaster, Family Tree Maker and 3D Home Architect, are category leaders. Broderbund's flagship brand, The Print Shop, has sold more than 17 million units since its introduction in 1984. The company has more than 40 million customers in homes, businesses and schools worldwide.

Broderbund operates broderbund.com, the company's award-winning website, which is visited by more than one million people every month. It offers greetings, photo albums, more than one million graphics and other products and services.

About Riverdeep Group plc

Riverdeep provides highly motivating, dynamic, curriculum-based Internet and CD-ROM learning experiences for the K-12 home and school markets. Riverdeep's products feature interactive problem-solving approaches and real-world applications that contribute to the depth of children's conceptual understanding. The Company also offers extensive online tools including support and professional development offerings via riverdeep.net, helping educators integrate technology with curriculum to assess and improve student performance. Riverdeep's science, math, and language arts learning activities are correlated to national and state curriculum standards. Riverdeep's award-winning products, including Destination Math, Science Explorer, Science Gateways, and Tangible MATH, are accessible via riverdeep.net and are available on CD-ROM for all major operating platforms. Riverdeep's product offerings also include EdVantage's language arts courses, Edmark's early learning software, the Learning Company's offerings, which include Reader Rabbit, Carmen Sandiego, ClueFinders, and Oregon Trail, and Broderbund's home productivity and digital media software, including The Print Shop, PrintMaster and Family Tree Maker.

Riverdeep Group plc was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, with U.S. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more information, write to Riverdeep, Inc., 125 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140; call toll free to 800/564-2587; visit www.riverdeep.net; or send a note to info@riverdeep.net.

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