Eyefinity and Ocular Sciences Inc. Announce E-Commerce Alliance
Ocular Sciences to Offer Products Online at Eyefinity.com

FOLSOM, Calif., August 9, 2002, Eyefinity, the optical industry's most widely used Internet portal, and Ocular Sciences Inc., a global leader in contact lens marketing and manufacturing, today announced an e-commerce alliance. Ocular Sciences will offer its broad range of soft contact lenses to eye care practitioners for purchase on eyefinity.com in fall 2002.

Through Eyefinity, eye care practitioners can order from a multitude of optical suppliers and manage their orders and purchase history from one online location. With contact lens partners, such as Ocular Sciences, doctors can also choose direct-to-patient delivery options.

Steve Fanning, President and CEO of Ocular Sciences, commented: "Our partnership with Eyefinity is a natural extension of Ocular's unique marketing strategy, which is direct to professional only and focused on enhancing the business success of the eye care practitioner. This alliance provides an exciting new opportunity to expand our distribution reach to include the nations largest eye care doctor network and provide a simple, convenient method to order our clinically preferred contact through the optical industry's most widely used internet portal."

"Partnering with Ocular Sciences allows both companies to help empower the private eye care community," said Don Yee, CEO of Eyefinity. "Offering their products online, combined with our practice management software, claim processing and practice Web sites, creates a very robust and powerful set of tools for doctors."

Ocular Sciences will join other Eyefinity manufacturing alliance partners such CIBA Vision, Altair and Sola, as well as Dell and Office Depot.

Eyefinity, in conjunction with industry-leading partners, provides e-commerce, marketing and business management solutions to the private practice eye care community. Through the services of eyefinity.com, private eye care professionals can order products and lab materials, process online insurance claims, and create practice Web sites. Eyefinity serves over 17,500 private eye care practices and 320 labs, and processes more than 25 million transactions a year. For more information visit www.eyefinity.com.

Ocular Sciences, Inc. manufactures a broad line of high quality, competitively priced soft contact lenses marketed directly to eye care practitioners. The Company's lenses are brand and product differentiated by distribution channel, and Ocular Sciences' unique lens technology makes thinner lenses that are easier to handle and more comfortable to wear than those of leading competitors.