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Rowe International Rowe Announces AMI Entertainment Software Development Center In Chicago

Rowe set out to recruit a team with proven capability

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Rowe International Corp., the leading manufacturer of commercial jukeboxes and a provider of digital music and content management software, announced today the expansion of and key staff appointments to the Chicago-area software development center of its AMI Entertainment division.

The center, which opened in February 2006, focuses on maintaining and enhancing the AMI Entertainment Network, which administers music services for digital jukeboxes.  The primary focus of the center is the development of www.amientertainment.net, the website from which jukebox operators can monitor and update their jukebox clients. In addition, the center develops the back-office software functions required of a digital music provider including invoicing, royalty payments, and processing music feeds from record labels.

AMI Entertainment’s software development center is headed up by Ron Richards, vice president of software engineering, who joined the company in June 2005. The Chicago-area staff boasts top-level engineers with experience in producing enterprise-class software for such Fortune 500 companies as eBay, Nestlé, Semantic, Ford Motor Co., IBM and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. They are Dan Garrett, architect and director, Marc Saegesser, John Groppe, Mary Grygleski, Eran Loewenthal and Jesse Buck.

The new team will work closely with AMI’s jukebox client, quality assurance and operations teams, all of which are based at Rowe’s headquarters in Grand Rapids, MI.

“To meet the growing demands of the AMI network,” Richards said, “Rowe set out to recruit a team with proven capability in building a robust communications software system. We located the development center in suburban Chicago to take advantage of the area’s historic expertise in communication software. With local employers such as Motorola, Lucent and the world’s largest options exchange, the Chicago area contains a deep pool of talent from which to recruit.”

In early 2006, the AMI network began to show the stress associated with a successful growing network, Richards observed. “The expanding AMI music library and growing number of jukeboxes connecting to the network caused the AMI website to become sluggish at times,” he explained. “The new team came along just in time to address these growing pains.”

Within six months of forming the new team, Rowe/AMI implemented a number of performance improvements to the AMI Web client. These performance improvements, rolled out over the summer and in early fall, dramatically improved the speed of selecting local music for the jukebox. The team is now busy at work enhancing the new AMI website that will launch in 2007. The enhanced site will further improve the operator’s ability to configure music and will allow Rowe/AMI to support the anticipated rapid growth of its jukebox network over the next several years.

The new office of AMI Entertainment is located at 2021 Midwest Road, Suite 200, Oakbrook, IL 60523. Ron Richards can be reached by phone at 630.705.5115.

ABOUT ROWE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION and AMI ENTERTAINMENT

Rowe International Corporation is the number one manufacturer of commercial and home coin-op jukeboxes, and the leading maker of CD-to-digital upgrade kits. The Company manufactures the NiteStar® and Solara® (floor format) and StarBrite® (wall-mounted) Internet-enabled all-digital jukeboxes. The Company’s Internet-enabled devices can operate over a variety of broadband connections. AMI Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rowe International Corp., provides digital music content and Web-based management services for the Rowe Internet-enabled jukeboxes over the AMI Entertainment Network. Rowe International and AMI Entertainment are headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rowe also maintains a technical support and sales office in London, and has one of the industry’s most extensive sales and support systems, with distributors in more than 35 countries. Distributor and product information is available at Rowe’s website, located at www.roweinternational.com, or by calling the Company at (616) 243-3633.