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Linde Material Handling North America Upgrades to Enfinity Suite 6INTERSHOP COMMUNICATIONS AG:

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- Longtime customer continues to expand with Intershop’s latest
  e-commerce software release

San Francisco, CA – June 4, 2008 – Intershop Communications, a leading
provider of e-commerce solutions for mid to large-sized global enterprises,
today announced that Linde Material Handling North America, a leading
manufacturer of forklifts and warehouse equipment, is now live on Enfinity
Suite 6 at lindelink.com.

Linde is a longtime Intershop customer and chose to leverage Enfinity Suite
6 to expand its online presence and enhance the management of business
processes. Linde’s upgrade to Enfinity Suite 6 allows for exceptionally
high return on investment (ROI) and many benefits including:

  - Extensive back-office functionality and a rich native feature set

  - Out-of-the-box multi-channel capability with centralized management of
    all channels

  - High-performance and scalability with a sophisticated 3-tier
    architecture

  - Highly extendible backend integration capability via XML and Web
    Services

Intershop provided Linde with a number of out-of-the-box features integral
to improving efficiency and reducing costs. Key benefits of the latest
upgrade are:

  - Fast implementation of Intershop’s Enterprise Application Integration
    (EAI) Solution Kit enhancing the middleware component and allowing for
    a highly-stable integration layer with SAP

  - Document Management functionality simplifying product documentation
    management

  - Permissions Framework allowing for easier backend administration and
    improved access control.

Linde Management stated, 'We’ve continued to effectively use Intershop’s
Enfinity platform to deliver e-commerce for our Lindelink web portal. The
Enfinity upgrade project and its launch was very well planned and
executed.'

'We’re proud of our longstanding relationship with Linde and their
continued success in e-commerce,' stated Nader Nemati, Managing Director
Intershop Americas. 'Enfinity Suite 6 has the ability to power global
market leaders such as Linde with high-performance and scalable e-commerce
capabilities.'

About Linde Material Handling

Linde Material Handling is a leading manufacturer of forklifts and
warehouse equipment. Linde Material Handling is part of the KION Group, the
market leader in forklift trucks in Europe and the global number two in the
material handling industry. In 2007, the KION Group employed over 21,000
people and generated net sales of more than €4.3 billion ($6.6 billion).

About Intershop

Intershop Communications AG (Prime Standard: ISH2) is a leading provider of
comprehensive global e-commerce and online marketing solutions. Founded in
1992, Intershop has a long tradition of driving innovation in e-commerce by
automating and simplifying business processes for mid to large-sized
organizations. Intershop’s standard e-commerce software, Enfinity Suite 6,
offers a highly scalable and robust solution for conducting online
business, complemented by all necessary technical and business consulting
services. Intershop also acts as a business process outsourcing (BPO)
provider, managing all aspects of online retailing, including fulfillment,
online marketing and hosting. Around the globe more than 320 enterprise
customers, including HP, Sun Microsystems, BMW, and Deutsche Telekom run
Intershop solutions. Intershop has offices in the United States and Europe.
More information about Intershop can be found on the Web at
www.intershop.com.




Intershop Press Contact: 
Daniel Tensfeldt, Marketing / PR Coordinator
Phone: +1 (415) 844-1500, pr@intershop.com, www.intershop.com


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Language:     English
Issuer:       Intershop Communications AG
              Intershop Tower
              07740 Jena
              Deutschland
Phone:        +49 (0)3641-50-0
Fax:          +49 (0)3641-50-1002
E-mail:       ir@intershop.de
Internet:     www.intershop.de
ISIN:         DE000A0EPUH1, DE000A0C4ZE3
WKN:          A0EPUH, A0C4ZE
Indices:      CDAX, PRIMEALL, TECHALLSHARE
Listed:       Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
              in Berlin, Stuttgart, München, Hamburg, Düsseldorf
 
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