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Newbury, Piret & Co. Announces Sponsorship of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business

BOSTON, MA February 5, 2004 -- Newbury, Piret & Co. a leading Boston investment banking firm announced today that it has become a sponsor of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business.

Founded in 1991, Northeastern University's Center for Family Business is a membership based educational program focused on the unique interests of emerging leaders, successors and senior generation family members who are stakeholders in their family businesses. Supported by committed sponsors, who are experts in their fields of service to family business, the Center currently serves more than three hundred stakeholders in seventy plus family owned businesses.

Marguerite Piret, President and CEO of Newbury, Piret & Co., praised the sponsorship. "For over a decade, the Center for Family Business has provided unparalleled services to its members and we are proud to become a sponsor of the Center. Our sponsorship of the Center for Family Business is a clear testimony of our continued commitment in providing the highest level of investment banking and financial advisory services to family controlled and owned enterprises."

The Center for Family Business educational value is comprised of six interactive Executive Breakfast Workshops open to the entire family and key non-family executives. The Center also owns and manages the leading search engine for family enterprises as well as publishing the Family Business Quarterly newsletter, with a circulation of close to ten thousand readers.

About Newbury, Piret & Co. Inc.
Newbury, Piret & Co. Inc., is a leading Boston based investment banking firm, serving public and private growth companies in the technology and business services markets. Founded in 1981, Newbury, Piret provides Corporate Finance, M&A, Strategic Advisory and Valuation services focusing on expanding middle market companies in the life sciences, communications and information technology, business services and defense industry sectors. For more information, visit the company's Website at http://www.newburypiret.com.

About Northeastern University's Center for Family Business:
Northeastern University's Center for Family Business was founded in 1991. A membership based educational program, the Center's activities revolve around Constituent Forums focused on the unique interests of emerging leaders, successors and senior generation family members who are stakeholders in their family businesses. Bi-monthly participation with peers in small facilitated and focused discussion groups allows forum members to address issues of their own concern and to learn from others. Supported by committed sponsors, who are experts in their fields of service to family business, the Center currently serves more than three hundred stakeholders in seventy plus family owned businesses. For more information, visit the center's website.

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