SOLA and Eyefinity^SMAnnounce Strategic Alliance

FOLSOM, CA, March 5, 2002 -- The optical industry's most used online services organization, Eyefinity^SM, and one of the largest manufacturers of spectacle lenses in North America, SOLA, have entered into a long term alliance to provide eye care professionals (ECPs) with product information, dispensing advice, and continuing education.

"Increasing lens product designs and material options can make life more complicated for independent practitioners," said Don Yee, Eyefinity President and CEO. "Practices need a simple way of finding the product that will best meet an individual patient's needs. Our mutual objective with SOLA is to provide practical lens information for independent ECP's."

Eyefinity provides a single point through which practitioners may order products, process insurance claims, and place private orders to their labs. According to Mark Ashcroft, SOLA's President of the Americas, "Eyefinity is the Internet destination of choice for the majority of eye care professionals. Lens solutions are a key element of our message, but we are also focused on providing ECPs with the information they need to increase patient satisfaction while streamlining the dispensing process."

This alliance will ultimately provide eye care professionals with diagnostic solutions and patient retention tools, while simplifying material acquisition.

About Eyefinity
Eyefinity is dedicated to being the independent eye care practice's innovative marketing, business management and information solutions partner that links independent eye care professionals with manufacturers, optical labs and consumers for superior patient care and smart practice management. Headquartered in Folsom, CA, Eyefinity serves more than 17,500 private eye care practices and 320 labs, and currently processes more than 20 million transactions a year.

About SOLA
SOLA International, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes a broad range of ophthalmic lenses, primarily focusing on the faster-growing high index segment of the global lens market, and particularly on specialty value-added products. SOLA's strong global presence includes manufacturing and distribution sites in three major regions: North America, Europe and Rest of World (primarily Australia, Asia and South America). With SOLA's 7,000 employees in 30 countries, customers in over 50 markets are served worldwide.

For additional information, visit the Eyefinity Web site at www.eyefinity.com.