Article: Symposium Corporation Announces Separate Agreements to Acquire Two Transaction-oriented Companies.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1999--

Symposium Corporation (OTC BB:SYPM) ("Symposium") today announced that, as part of its overall strategy to identify, acquire and consolidate companies in niche markets in direct marketing and financial services, it entered agreements to acquire two transaction-oriented companies.

Symposium has acquired from Direct Sales International LP ("DSI") an option to purchase all of DSI's assets for $22.9 million plus the amount necessary to enable DSI to repay its bank loan and the assumption of DSI's accounts payable, accrued expenses and deferred revenues. The amount necessary to enable DSI to repay its bank loan is ...

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