Harte-Hanks Acquires StepDot Software GmbH; A Leading German Data Integration and Data Quality Provider will be Combined with Harte-Hanks Trillium Software®

Business Wire, June 13, 2006

SAN ANTONIO -- Harte Hanks Inc. (NYSE:HHS), a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, today announced that it has acquired StepDot Software GmbH of Germany. StepDot, based in Boblingen, Germany, has been a value-added reseller specializing in data quality and integration solutions for Harte Hanks since 2002.

Harte-Hanks further announced that it plans to integrate StepDot into its Trillium Software operations, and will now do business as Harte-Hanks Trillium Software - Germany GmbH.

"Combining Harte Hanks Trillium Software and StepDot continues a Harte Hanks strategy of building world-class solutions that enable organizations to achieve total data quality while also expanding our company's presence globally," said Richard Hochhauser, president & chief executive officer, Harte-Hanks.

StepDot has numerous corporations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland among its clients, representing financial services, automotive and pharmaceutical among other sectors.

"Acquiring StepDot provides Harte Hanks a more strategic presence in Central Europe and in Germany, its largest and most dynamic economy," said Gary Skidmore, corporate officer and senior vice president, Harte-Hanks, who leads the company's international operations. "StepDot has the same values and commitment to client success that are key to our own company's continued growth, and it shares our commitment to deliver industry-leading data quality solutions for Central Europe."

Financial terms of the acquisition agreement are not disclosed. As a result of the acquisition, Klaus Webersinke, chief executive officer of StepDot, now is named vice president, Central Europe, for Harte-Hanks Trillium Software.

Harte Hanks Trillium Software enables organization to achieve Total Data Quality by providing a full complement of technologies and services providing global data profiling, data cleansing, enhancement, and data linking for e-business, customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, data warehouse, and other enterprise applications. Use of the Trillium Software System(R) by many of the world's largest and most successful companies has made Trillium Software the leader in its marketplace. For more information about Trillium Software and its offerings, call 978-436-8900, or visit Trillium Software online at http://www.trilliumsoftware.com.

About Harte-Hanks

Harte-Hanks, Inc., San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to a wide range of local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves the return on its clients' marketing investment with a range of services organized around five solution points: Construct and update the database -- Access the data -- Analyze the data -- Apply the knowledge -- Execute the programs. Expert at each element within this process, Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing is highly skilled at tailoring solutions for each of the vertical markets it serves. Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into more than 1,000 separate editions with circulation in excess of 12 million in California and Florida each week.

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