SAN DIEGO, CA – December 5, 2008 – Trade Service and Equity/EDN announced today that Trade Service, the leading product and pricing content provider to the Electrical and Plumbing/HVAC industries has become an approved service provider to the Equity/EDN. Members will enjoy preferred access to Trade Service products that enable distributors to efficiently update pricing and product information, effectively merchandise non-stock items, power web-storefronts with attributed content and product images, and enhance overall enterprise system performance.

According to Bob Stone, Director of Business Development for Trade Service, “Trade Service is very pleased to have been named an approved service provider to the Equity/EDN organization. We already provide service to over 200 Equity/EDN members and look forward to working with the Equity/EDN team to show all the members how they can improve their businesses by subscribing to our industry standard content products.”

According to Bob Snyder, Vice-President of Equity/EDN, “Trade Service is recognized as the leading provider of content subscription services in the industries we serve. We want all of our members to be able to take advantage of their proven products. To be able to add Trade Service provides real value to our members. We look forward to working closely with the Trade Service team to make this a very successful program.”

For more information please contact:

Bob Stone
Director of Business Development
Trade Service
(317) 733-8939
robert_stone@tradeservice.com

About Trade Service
Trade Service is the leading provider of standardized product and price information to the electrical, plumbing/PVF, HVACR, industrial MRO, and office products industries. Since 1931, the company has been the leader in content acquisition, aggregation, management, publishing, and distribution, offering a variety of products, services, and systems to meet the content needs of over 20,000 distributors, contractors, and government agencies. The range of solutions provided includes printed directories, electronic catalogs, pricing data for business system updating, and robust attributed content to fuel full-functioning Internet storefronts.  For more information, visit www.tradeservice.com, or call (800) 854-1527.

About Equity/EDN
Equity/EDN, founded in 1991 and 1993, are national purchasing groups which provide marketing services and sales support to electrical wholesale distributors. With sales exceeding $6.2 billion, their network of independent electrical wholesale distributors services nearly every primary and secondary market in the United States. They are a focused organization.  Their only business is electrical wholesale distribution.  For more information, visit www.equityedn.com, or call (781) 844-3408.