MUTM Mutual Merchant Services Inc (GM)

Mutual Merchant Services (PINKSHEETS: MUTM) (German WKN# A0Q8CV) today announced that C. J. Deans has been appointed to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. As a member of the Board, Mr. Deans will guide the company's new Business Development Initiative to provide financial services including credit and debit card acceptance, check guarantee, and check verification to the Resort, Gaming and Food and Beverage markets.

"Mr. Deans' broad range of experience and current involvement with large luxury resorts, golf courses, spas, cruise ships, as well as Yacht Clubs, City Clubs and Athletic Clubs will serve as a rich source of new merchant accounts," said T. A. Gillis, Director and President of MUTM. "Mr. Deans also affords MUTM access to the gaming marketplace including 'traditional' as well as 'tribal' gaming and all amenity functions that are applicable, such as restaurants, grills, cocktail lounges, and gift shops," Mr. Gillis added.

Mr. Deans has over forty years of experience in banking and financial/management consulting and currently serves as President of Resort Links, Inc., a company that handles furniture and fixture procurement negotiation for resorts, country clubs, city clubs and yacht clubs, gaming and hotel properties across the United States and Canada. In addition, the company represents Greg Norman Golf Course Design within the Native American Hotel/Gaming industry. The company also provides vacation/destination golf packages into selected golf markets, with a primary focus on Myrtle Beach, SC, Scottsdale, AZ and the Las Vegas, NV areas.

Mr. Deans is also Senior Vice President of VGM Resorts and Gaming, an operating division of VGM Club, one of the nation's premier group purchasing organizations handling purchase negotiations for country clubs, yacht clubs, city clubs, resorts, and cruise ships for virtually every item, including food and beverage which is essential in their daily operations.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, which are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Expressions of future goals and similar expressions reflecting something other than historical fact are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those currently anticipated. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, market acceptance of products and technologies, competitive factors, and the Company's ability to continue to secure sources of financing. The Company undertakes no obligations to revise or update any forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date of this press release.

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