OrderDog™ And Natural Synergies Join Forces

Independent Stores Now Gain Critical Competitive Edge

Carrollton, TX. May 22, 2008 – OrderDog™, Inc., a technology-based company that provides neutral and secure third party business-to-business services and solutions to the natural products industry, and Natural Synergies, LLC, which is a neutral, comprehensive resource network of independent natural food retailers, are proud to announce their new strategic partnership. This partnership allows independent natural product retailers the ability to leverage the state-of-the-art OrderDog™ ordering and inventory system to achieve a greater advantage over their competitors.

OrderDog™ has long been an innovator of electronic order management systems for independent natural product retailers. “The unified ordering system that OrderDog™ has created is truly ‘state-of-the-art’,” said Bryan Bauman, Vice President for OrderDog™, “When you combine the power of our system with the reach and strength of the Natural Synergies group, independent retailers can only benefit and grow their businesses.”

“We are very excited about this partnership as it gives our member retailers the opportunity to get into a state-of-the-art ordering system without the large up-front costs usually associated with such a system,” stated Eric Gutmann, President & Chief Operating Officer for Natural Synergies. “With the iPOS system, stores do not have to worry about all of the time and effort required to setup and maintain databases, as it is all handled and updated by the OrderDog™ system.”

OrderDog™ and Natural Synergies were both founded with the idea of helping independent natural product retailers grow their businesses as efficiently as possible.

Headquartered in Carrollton, Texas, OrderDog™, Inc. provides natural product industry retail stores with the industry standard hardware and web-based unified ordering and inventory systems. Servicing over hundreds of retailers and suppliers across the United States, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, OrderDog™ has proven to be the industry’s foremost expert on supply chain solutions. To contact OrderDog™ please call 866-OrderDog or go to www.OrderDog.com.

Founded in 2006, Natural Synergies is a neutral, comprehensive resource network designed to help independent natural food retailers overcome new competitive challenges and thrive in the marketplace.