SELLMEAT.COM TO LAUNCH E-TRADING SITE

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The creators of SellMeat.com chose the 2000 Meat Marketing Conference, held here, to announce their new partnership with Influence, LLC, a leading Midwest e-business solutions developer, to help design and launch their interactive Web site providing business-to-business real-time buying and selling of raw and further-processed meat and poultry products. SellMeat.com, set to go on-line this week, will offer electronic trading and value-added services, direct customer support and current industry news.