Stellar Event & Presentation Resources, Inc. Acquires Abbey Event Services in Southern California

August 28, 2000, HOUSTON, TX – Stellar Event & Presentation Resources, Inc. announced today the acquisition of Abbey Event Services (AES), a leading provider of event rentals and services to a wide variety of customers throughout Southern California. AES combined with the Stuart Rental Company in Northern California and Alford Media Services in Los Angeles, expands Stellar’s capabilities on the West Coast ranking it as one of the major suppliers to the event industry.

Abbey Event Services is the Southern California successor of Abbey Rents that was founded in 1924. With three locations in Southern California - Los Angeles County, South Bay and Inland Empire - AES provides all the items necessary to properly host a special event, party, meeting, convention or festival. Some of the major products provided by AES include clear span fabric structures, tents, chairs, tables, canopies, staging, lighting, linens, china and glassware.

Tom Tucker, Stellar’s CEO, explains that “Abbey Event Services of Los Angeles is a great addition to the Stellar portfolio of companies, which is comprised of the most respected party rental and event technology companies in America, each providing top quality equipment and professional services for the corporate presentation and special events industries. We are positive that this acquisition helps Stellar move towards its goal of national leadership in providing equipment and services to the event and presentation industry." Other Stellar companies include: Abbey Event Services of Houston and San Antonio; Alford Media Services of Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta; Ducky Bob’s Party Rentals of Dallas and Fort Worth; LD Systems of Houston and San Antonio; Party Plus of Atlanta and The Stuart Rental Company of Sunnyvale and Walnut Creek, California. The combined Stellar operations now employ 1,000 people working in 16 different locations.