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IBM Renews Contract with First Priority Group's Fleet Service Subsidiary

15 December 1999

IBM Renews Contract with First Priority Group's Fleet Service Subsidiary, National Fleet Service, Inc.
    PLAINVIEW, N.Y., Dec. 14 -- First Priority Group, Inc.
announced today that its largest subsidiary, National Fleet
Service, Inc. has renewed its exclusive vehicle fleet maintenance contract
with IBM .  IBM's fleet has grown to become one of the Company's
best accounts.
    According to Mr. Craig Kadamian, Vice President of Business Development
for NFS, "National Fleet Service provides the nation's largest and most
prestigious companies with the best nationwide collision repair management
services available.  IBM routinely audits our service and performance records
for their fleet, and the renewal of this multi-year contract has earned our
fleet subsidiary, IBM's continued long-standing vote of confidence."
    In addition, First Priority Group recently announced that because of its
exemplary reputation as the nation's leader for the provision of collision
repair management, it has taken advantage of its 16 years of experience by
launching driversshield.com, a wholly owned subsidiary of FPG.  The new web-
based company offers the nation's first and only Internet site providing
complete collision repair management for insurance companies throughout all
fifty states, utilizing its highly qualified 2,500 contracted collision repair
facilities.
    Since its founding in 1983, First Priority Group has built a national
reputation for efficient, cost-saving management of collision claims for self-
insured corporate and muniude Coca-Cola,
Time Warner, The Hershey Company and many other prominent corporations.
Through its affinity auto club programs, First Priority Group and its
subsidiaries have established relationships with The Assurance Group, formerly
American Bankers Insurance Group, Providian Bank and other prominent credit
card and financial organizations.
    Certain information contained herein includes information that is forward-
looking.  The matters referred to in forward-looking statements may be
affected by the risks and uncertainties involved in the Company's business.
These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by the
cautionary statements contained in the Company's Securities and Exchange
Commission filings.