Advant-E Corp. (AVEE.OB)

Advant-e Corporation, through its subsidiaries, develops, markets, resells, and hosts business-to-business electronic commerce (e-commerce) software in the United States and Canada. The company provides services that allow its customers to transmit and receive business documents electronically. It also provides hosted electronic data interchange (EDI) solutions that utilize the Internet as the communications method to connect with business partners, integrate data with internal systems, expand and manage electronic trading communities, and validate data through a hosted business rule service. In addition, the company offers Web EDI solution, a hosted, Web-based system, which enables suppliers, grocery and other retailers, automotive manufacturers, and other large buying organizations to send and receive electronic purchase orders, invoices, price changes, and other documents through a Web-based service, as well as to conduct EDI in grocery and automotive industries. Further, it provides EnterpriseEC, an electronic transaction network and trading community management platform to companies currently doing e-commerce, as well as companies that plans to conduct e-commerce in the future. Additionally, the company provides professional services, and technical maintenance and support that enable customers to automate delivery and receipt of inbound and outbound documents. Its software integrates and connects supply chain management, customer relationship management, and financial enterprise resource planning systems with third party software that provides various delivery and document capture options. Advant-e Corporation was founded in 1994 and is based in Dayton, Ohio.

For the nine months ended 30 September 2006, Advant-E Corporation's revenues increased 22% to $4M. Net income increased 62% to $631K. Revenues reflect increase in the turnover mainly attributed to the continued market acceptance of the Company's core Web EDI and Enterprise EC services to small & medium size suppliers of grocery. Net income also reflects improved gross margins and increased net other income.