Eyefinity Announces Agreement with SECO International to Offer Online Continuing Education Through eyefinity.com

FOLSOM, CA, January 7, 2004 -- Eyefinity, the optical industry’s most widely used Internet portal, and SECO International, one of the industry’s most prominent and respected organizations, have announced an agreement to offer SECOInternational.com’s Online Education for the eye care professional through Eyefinity’s web site.

With this agreement, Eyefinity becomes an authorized SECO Online Education partner, and will offer SECOInternational.com’s continuing education courses for optometrists and staff members to its base of over 20,000 offices in the site’s eLearn area, beginning in early 2004.

"SECO’s history speaks for itself, and we’re obviously very pleased to partner with them to bring valuable educational programs to private eye care practitioners," says Don Yee, Eyefinity's president and CEO. "Online CE is gaining popularity, and is ideal for today’s time-challenged practitioner. It’s a perfect fit with our mission."

"The SECO International/Eyefinity partnership now provides eye care and eyewear professionals of all levels an online community experience that is both unique and encompassing," adds William Spearman, O.D., president of SECO International. "Eyefinity represents the vanguard of the Information Age for our profession and our partnership is a very natural symbiosis."

About Eyefinity
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 www.eyefinity.com, private practice eye care professionals can order products and lab materials, process online insurance claims, and improve practice management and marketing. Eyefinity serves more than 20,000 private eye care practices and 320 labs, and processes more than 25 million transactions each year.

About SECO International
SECO International is produced annually by SECO International, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Southern Council of Optometrists, Inc. SECO International, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a not-for-profit membership association founded in 1923, and counts as its member’s practitioners in the twelve southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The annual SECO conventions regularly attract approximately 7,500 national and international eye care professionals, vendors and allied ophthalmic personnel.

For more information, visit www.eyefinity.com or www.SECOInternational.com