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The Coface Group facilitates, partners and secures trade throughout the world. The Group offers more than 70,000 companies - whether large or small, whatever their business and wherever they are - a full range of solutions spanning rating, protection and services. By furnishing market survey information and investment guarantees along with credit insurance, receivables management and business information, the Group gives its clients the opportunity to outsource the entire management of their customer data accounts.

Unparalleled local service worldwide
The Group offers companies a local service in 93 countries and five continents. Six platforms coordinate the Group's global offering in high growth potential regions so as to continually improve its service offering. The CreditAlliance, InfoAlliance and @rating networks unite high quality partners in the fields of credit insurance and credit information, as well as rating.

High Technology paves the way for secure data exchange
The Common Risk System, built around a database containing information on 35 million companies worldwide, represents the backbone of the Group's @rating Solution, a unique web-based rating system allowing enterprises to insure trade debt throughout the world. @rating Solution, which now forms part and parcel of all Coface products, helps enterprises to expand in today's global marketplace and will provide them with the keys to success in their future e-business initiatives.

Key Features

• A world-class business-to-business trade facilitator
• No. 1 in export credit insurance
• Leader in company information and trade receivables management
• Operations in 93 countries and five continents
• 70,000 clients worldwide
• @rating, the Group's flagship product allowing enterprises to insure trade debt throughout the world
• Common Risk System, an on-line database containing information on 35 million companies worldwide
• 2000 turnover of EUR 845.8 million
• Return on equity of 12.8%
• Listed on the first market of the Paris Stock Exchange (member of the SBF 120 index)

Transpobank was founded in Milan in 1988. The company's activity consists in the realisation of ad-hoc services for road transport firms. The company has been highly successful for more than ten years thanks to its ability of perceiving the demand and the expectations of road transport companies and forwarding agents and of translating them rapidly into high-tech services, which can be easily and flexibly applied.
Thanks to its long experience in this sector and its high development ability, Transpobank is the leading company offering ID-services to road transport companies in Italy. The company's staff, including its subsidiary Ratios s.r.l, consists and branches all over Italy with more than 100 free-lance workers. In Europe Transpobank is partner of Teleroute.com which has got branch offices in sixteen European countries and thus guarantees its presence and efficiency almost everywhere.

The services in this moment available are the following:

Transpobank - Data bank for national transport (within Italy)

Company Portraits - Guide to European road transport companies and forwarding agents

• The FedEx Express global transportation network provides rapid, reliable, time-definite delivery of documents, packages and freight shipments worldwide.
• A state-of-the-art information technology network enables information-rich service offerings. More than 2.5 million customers are connected electronically with FedEx Express -- through its web site for its customer automation systems -- and about two-thirds of U.S. domestic transactions are processed electronically every business day.

For more information, see www.fedex.com