Shaw Industries Adopts Vangard Voice Systems' Mobile Voice Platform to Cut Supply...

Shaw Industries Adopts Vangard Voice Systems' Mobile Voice Platform to Cut
Supply Chain Costs, Speed Delivery and Improve Customer Responsiveness

Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform Enables Shaw's IT Professionals to Optimize
Existing Mobile Supply Chain Business Processes with Voice-Directed Data
Capture and Application Control Capabilities.

IRVINE, Calif., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Vangard Voice Systems, Inc.
(Vangard), the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech(R) Mobile Voice Platform
for voice powering mobile enterprise applications, announced that Shaw
Industries Group, Inc., the world's leading floor manufacturer, has adopted
its Mobile Voice Platform to add high productivity 'hands-free, eyes-free'
voice-directed capabilities to its existing mobile supply chain applications.
Shaw, a Berkshire Hathaway company, will leverage Vangard's Mobile Voice
Platform technology to further speed product delivery, customer responsiveness
and achieve additional reductions in operational costs across the company's
business processes.

"Shaw Industries is renowned as an industry 'game changer' through their
relentless search, and adoption of new forward-thinking technologies," said
Bob Bova, president and CEO of Vangard Voice Systems. "Particularly now during
a struggling economy, we are pleased, but not surprised that Shaw again seized
the opportunity to exploit another innovative technology, this time our Mobile
Voice Platform, to drive down operational costs, improve customer service and
increase employee productivity and safety."

Shaw Industries chose Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform because of its ability
to non-invasively add sophisticated voice capabilities to Shaw's existing
applications, improving operational efficiencies and cutting costs. Using MVP,
Shaw's IT organization avoids the expensive and often risky trade-offs
traditionally related to replacing or rebuilding existing and already proven
mobile applications or business processes, in order to adopt voice
productivity.

"Vangard's Mobile Voice Platform provides our IT professionals the ability to
add high productivity voice capabilities wherever we see opportunities to
improve customer service and reduce costs throughout the supply chain," said
Heath Ridley, director of engineering and systems, Shaw Industries Group. "By
employing Vangard's voice solutions, we will further improve employee safety
as well, by providing a hands-free, eyes free mobile capability that enables
mobile employees to remain fully aware of the conditions that surround them,
while achieving new levels of personal productivity and accuracy."

Shaw's first MVP implementation is a voice-powered cluster picking warehouse
application that will further speed the time and accuracy of satisfying
customer orders while reducing associated labor and overhead costs. Other
voice-enabling projects being considered include additional warehouse
applications, yard management and transportation related applications.

About Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the
world's largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floor covering provider with
more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 28,000 associates.
Headquartered in Dalton, Ga., the company manufactures and distributes
carpeting, rugs, hardwood, laminate and ceramic tile for residential and
commercial applications worldwide. A recognized leader in environmental
stewardship, Shaw has implemented hundreds of sustainability initiatives and
cradle to cradle design solutions, collectively termed the Shaw Green Edge.
For more information, visit www.shawfloors.com.

About Vangard Voice Systems
Vangard Voice Systems is the innovative provider of the AccuSpeech(R) Mobile
Voice Platform (MVP) for enterprise-wide voice productivity deployment. MVP
enables enterprises to achieve tactical, operational and strategic advantage
through the deployment of voice-directed data capture and application control
capabilities to existing mobile applications and business processes. The
Mobile Voice Platform: provides one common, full lifecycle, platform solution;
voice-enabling existing web-device, and server-based mobile applications,
using complete device-resident voice operations. MVP complies with enterprise
standards with device-, application- and network-independence.

Vangard's partners include Wavelink Corporation, Agilysys, Excalibur
Integrated Systems, Nuance Communications, Avnet and Ingram Micro. Vangard
solutions are available to government agencies on the GSA schedule. Vangard
Voice is a Motorola PartnerSelect ISV partner and its voice technology is
proven to operate effectively on a wide variety of devices including Motorola,
Intermec, LXE, PsionTeklogix, Opticon and others. For more information, go to
www.vangardvoice.com.

SOURCE Vangard Voice Systems, Inc.

Mollie Surratt, Marketing Communications Manager of Shaw Industries,
+1-706-275-1792, mollie.surratt@shawinc.com, or Dan Villanueva, Vice
President, Marketing of Vangard Voice Systems, +1-703-505-2984,
danv@vangardvoice.com