E-Power Announces Industrial-Strength Call Center to be Based in Houston

    HOUSTON--Nov. 7, 2001--E-Power International Inc. (OTCBB:EPWI), a diversified manufacturing and service company, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary GPS Worldwide will begin offering a 24 hour by seven day a week monitoring service hosted by Barton Protective Services. By offering its industrial location services customers an enhanced call center option for monitoring, special needs which arise from customers' emergency calls will have an added degree of professional and dependable response options. This service will be provided only to fleet or industrial users of the vehicle tracking systems in North America.
    Plans are to add consumer services where in the Barton Protective Service's call center can provide peace of mind for consumers capable of dispatching roadside assistance, un-locking doors if they are locked out and providing verbal disclosure of the consumer's vehicle location. An Interactive Voice Recognition (IVR) system will also provide a scalable platform where service monitoring features are automated, not requiring a live operator.
    Barton Protective Services call center affiliation with GPS World Wide will expand E-Power International's efforts to bring integrated services that add value while keeping costs down for small- and medium-size business operators. A small fleet owner can add the call center for less than ten dollars per month per vehicle. This professional assurance that someone will always be there to help track a vehicle extends the many Web-based features already offered by GPS Worldwide. The service will be offered nation wide via a toll free service starting Dec. 1, 2001. To learn more about this new service you can call Craig Finger at GPS World Wide, 281/219-0433.

    About E-Power International Inc.

    E-Power International Inc. (EPWI), a diversified manufacturing and service company, is an innovative world integrator of systems, an installer of safety systems and a provider of world-wide mobile electronic security services with a reach that includes Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. E-Power International has strong leadership positions in financial services by means of its ownership in professional employer organizations. For more information on E-Power International please call Mark McCollum at 281/219-0433.

    About Barton Protective Services Inc.

    Barton Protective Services Inc. is an innovative provider of premium contract security and people-related services which offers uncompromising value and results. Barton is one of the ten largest private contract security companies in the nation and operates services in over 33 major cities across the nation, employing over 10,000 professionals who are dedicated to serving over 700 clients nationwide. For information about the call center service call Todd McCullough, general manager, at 713/977-5995 or e-mail at todd_mccullough@bartonsolutions.com.

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