RIVA Demonstrates Alcohol Software Solution to the UK Wine and Spirits Association


London, England and San Francisco, CA - February 20, 2003 RIVA, a leading provider of enterprise production and compliance management software presented its innovative alcohol industry software solution to the UK Wine and Spirits Association (UKWSA) in London, England on January 24, 2003. The Wine and Spirits Association is a leading UK trade association in the beverage alcohol sector. It represents shippers, wholesalers and retailers, and has 200 members which import product from 50 countries. Some of the member companies attending the presentation included; Diageo, Allied Domecq, Bacardi-Martini, Matthew Clark, BRL Hardy, and Sainsbury.

John Corbet-Milward, UKWSA's Head of Technical and International Affairs, stated that, ãRIVA has developed a very impressive solution for the global wine industry that claims to be able to provide full traceabilityÊfrom bottle to vine.ä

Neil Kataria, RIVA's Co-Founder and Director of Alcohol Industry Solutions added, ãOur solution's platform was designed to provide the infrastructure for full and flexible traceability. We built the alcohol industry solution from the ground up with direct input from industryä

RIVA has developed the first enterprise wide, web-based software solution for the global alcohol industry that manages production and compliance from vine to bottle. RIVA's Alcohol Solution allows clients to improve visibility and traceability throughout their entire production process, increase reporting accuracies while reducing errors, and enhance mission critical business decisions with real-time production process data.

About RIVA
RIVA is an enterprise compliance management software company. RIVA's web-based products enable heavily regulated, process-oriented industries to improve product quality and product integrity management; enhance visibility and traceability; decrease compliance related costs; and reduce risks associated with non-compliance. The company was founded in July 2000 and is based in San Francisco, CA. Investors include Sequoia Capital and a series of Angel Investors led by The Capital Investors LLC , a Washington, D.C. based early stage fund comprised of high tech leaders.