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Texas Tea Offers Web-Enabled Onsite Automotive Service to Bay Area Clients Of Abilizer

13 November 2000

Texas Tea Offers Web-Enabled Onsite Automotive Service to Bay Area Clients Of Abilizer

               Employees Can Now Get Their Car Serviced at Work

    SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 13 Texas Tea, Silicon Valley's
premiere web-enabled automotive service company, announced today that it is
offering its service to Bay Area clients of Abilizer Solutions, Inc.
Customers of Abilizer in the Bay Area can now choose to provide Texas Tea's
automotive services to their employees and receive the service at work.
Employees can order a variety of automotive services, such as oil change and
tire rotation, from the Abilizer full-service Employee Portal that combines
internal, external and employee-generated content, targeted to the individual
employee.
    "In today's employee economy, companies are looking for ways to
efficiently deliver information and service to their employees, when and where
they need it," said Jeremy Singer, vice president of business development at
Abilizer.  "Texas Tea provides employees at Bay Area companies with an
essential time-saving convenience."
    Texas Tea offers automotive products and services at corporate campuses
and provides consumers with a convenient way to track and store vehicle
service history online.  All services are performed onsite while the employee
is at work.

    About Abilizer
    Founded in 1998, Abilizer Solutions Inc., a privately-held company based
in San Francisco, provides a platform for transforming economics of delivering
information in the workplace.  Abilizer has more than 70 leading companies,
representing more than two million employees.  These companies include Ace
Hardware, ACS, Applied Materials, EDS, Ericsson, HOK, Oracle, Sun Microsystems
and Visa. http://www.abilizer.com.

    About Texas Tea
    Texas Tea is changing the way its customers think about servicing their
vehicles through its innovative web-based service concept.  Texas Tea offers
automotive products and services at corporate campuses, giving employees a
simple and cost effective way to have their car serviced, and giving them the
added benefit of more free time.  Bay Area customers include Sun Microsystems,
3Com, National Semiconductor, Microsoft, and Applied Materials.  Texas Tea is
backed by the Sierra Angels, BH Equity, and the Springboard Angels.  The
company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and is currently in its third
year of operation in the Silicon Valley.  For more information about Texas
Tea, please visit http://www.texastea.com or call 888-TEXAS-TEA (888-839-2783).