INTERNAL MEMO

04/01/96

CREATION OF AN IP BALTIC COMPANY

To reinforce its development in the Baltic States - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - IP Arbo creates its first 100% subsidiary: IP Baltic.

This new federative entity will be operational starting January 1996 and will replace IP Arbo in the Baltic zone. It will act as a provider of services for, on one hand, the three national companies IP Riga, IP Vilnius and IP Tallinn in the fields of logistics, computer systems and management and, on the other hand, for the market in the field of consulting.

To succeed in these missions, the Group renews its confidence to Andris Mikhelsons, presently Managing Director of IP Riga, by appointing him head of IP Baltic.