TaylorMade-adidas Golf Enlists Symbol to Run the i2 Mobile Solution for Field Sales to Increase Productivity and Enhance Customer Service

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LAS VEGAS (May 15, 2002) -- Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL) announced today that TaylorMade-adidas Golf, a premier manufacturer of golf equipment, Maxfli golf balls, and adidas Golf footwear and apparel, has selected Symbol mobile devices and technology running the i2 Mobile Solution to extend enterprise information systems to the TaylorMade field sales team. The resulting efficiencies in sales and service yield improved on-site customer service.

Symbol mobile computers configured with the new i2 Mobile Solution field sales application software were deployed to TaylorMade sales representatives to capture retail inventory levels, look up customer-specific pricing, collaborate on orders, and provide real-time available-to-promise data from inside the pro shop or specialty golf retail location. The system is designed to enable an unprecedented level of visibility into TaylorMade's supply chain while functioning as a key entry point to TaylorMade's order management process.

"Adding the i2 Mobile Solution to our Symbol devices radically changes the way our business operates and delivers a definitive competitive advantage," says Mark Leposky, vice president of Global Operations, TaylorMade-adidas Golf. "Our sales reps have significantly reduced time spent on non-value added activities such as counting inventory and data gathering, which enables them to focus more time on customer value creation through category management and merchandising."

"We're pleased that TaylorMade-adidas Golf has selected Symbol and i2 for their new field sales initiative," said Barry Issberner, vice president, Vertical Marketing, Symbol Technologies. "Our field-ready handheld computers using i2 Mobile Solution are an ideal match for TaylorMade-adidas Golf. We're confident that Symbol has the combination of products, partners and technological expertise to provide the world's best field sales and service solutions."

"Symbol provides comprehensive and market leading solutions for both the LAN and WAN markets that work well with the i2 Mobile server and workflow applications to provide an ideal demand chain management and field service solution for TaylorMade," says Ray Greer, president of Global Network Solutions and Services for i2. "We are fiercely committed to the success of our customers like TaylorMade-adidas Golf, and have designed a mobile solution that can ensure success by yielding rapid improvements in operational efficiency and field productivity, while delivering measurable return on investment."

About Symbol Technologies

Symbol Technologies, Inc., is a global leader in mobile data transaction systems, providing innovative customer solutions based on wireless local area networking for data and voice, application-specific mobile computing and bar code data capture. Symbol's wireless information appliances connect the physical world of people on the move, packages, paper and shipping pallets, to information systems and the Internet. Today, some 10 million Symbol bar code scanners, mobile computers and wireless LANs are utilized worldwide in markets ranging from retailing to transportation and distribution logistics, manufacturing, parcel and postal delivery, government, healthcare and education. Symbol's systems and products are used to increase productivity from the factory floor to the retail store, to the enterprise and out to the home. Information about Symbol is available at www.symbol.com and 1-800-722-6234.

About i2

i2 is the leading provider of value chain management solutions that offer businesses maximum return on investment in the shortest amount of time. i2's value chain management solutions help companies plan and execute all of the activities involved in managing supply and demand, while requiring minimum change in current business processes. These solutions span the entire scope of value chain interactions, including demand chain management, supply chain management and supplier relationship management. Established in 1988, i2 is the only software solutions provider that measures, audits and reports total value provided to its customers, with a mission to deliver $75 billion in value by 2005. Learn more at www.i2.com. i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

i2 is a registered trademark of i2 Technologies, Inc. and its subsidiaries.

i2 Cautionary Language

This press release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including forward-looking statements regarding the integration of Symbol and i2 solutions and the customer's ability to implement or integrate i2 solutions successfully and in a timely fashion, receive expected functionality and performance, or achieve benefits attributable to i2 solutions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ from those projected. For a discussion of factors, which could impact i2's financial results and cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements, please refer to i2's recent filings with the SEC, particularly the Form 10-K filed April 1, 2002 and Form 10-Q filed April 29, 2002. i2 assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking information contained in this news release.