“Most Deserving Small Business”

Makeover Contest

Overview

Once again, Xerox is teaming up with Entrepreneur magazine to find a small to medium sized business in need of an overhaul.This time, the nation’s “Most Deserving Small Business” will win a complete design and technology makeover. The mostdeserving small business is not only in dire need of a makeover, but is also a business that is going beyond its daily work andmaking a difference in its community.

Xerox will assess the winner’s document processes and provide technology aimed at improving productivity. Plus, the winningbusiness will learn how taking small steps, such as adding color to documents and finding the right balance of equipment, canmake its office more effective and efficient.

In addition to Xerox document technology, the winner will receive new officefurniture from The HON Company, as well as interior design services fromThom Filicia, interior design specialist on NBC/Bravo’s Emmy Awardwinning hit show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, to make the office morefunctional and attractive.

From its beginnings, Xerox Corporation has helped shape the idea ofcorporate social responsibility. It believes passionately that goodcitizenship is good business and that a successful corporation must be an active participant in society. Last year, Xerox invested more than $12 million in some 400 educational, cultural and social institutionsthat tangibly impact the quality of life in communities where Xeroxemployees work and live around the world.

Xerox is committed not only to giving back to society, but tohelping businesses find better ways to work. Its intent is toconstantly lead with innovative technologies, products andsolutions that customers can depend upon to improve businessresults. Xerox develops and markets a full range of color andmonochrome copier, fax, multifunction and printer products, as well as document management and workflow software.Xerox is also leading the transition to color in the office by providing innovative, easy-to-use products that make it affordable to add color to documents for greater impact and response.

Office Makeover Contest

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Fast Facts

• No purchase necessary.

• The contest is open to U.S. companies with10 - 50 full time employees. Home officesare not eligible.

• The contest begins April 11, 2005 and endsJune 30, 2005.

• Only one entry can be submitted percompany.

• Companies can enter online or submit anentry by mail.

• Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. PDT June 30, 2005 and must include atleast one color photo of the inside of thecompany's office.

• The winner will be notified on or around July 15, 2005.

• The makeover assessment andimplementation will begin on or around July 18, 2005.

• Full rules and further information can befound at www.mostdeservingbiz.com

Judging Process

Submissions will be reviewed, qualified and scored by judgesfrom Entrepreneur magazine. Five finalists will be selected.

A panel of judges will review the finalists and select thewinning entry and two runners up.

This panel consists of: Dan Holtshouse, director of corporatebusiness strategy, Xerox Corporation; Thom Filicia, interiordesign specialist on NBC/Bravo's Emmy Award winning hitshow Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; Rieva Lesonsky, seniorvice president and editorial director of Entrepreneur magazine;Dave Burdakin, president of The HON Company; and StephenJordan, vice president and executive director of the U.S.Chamber of Commerce Center for Corporate Citizenship.

Judging is based on the following criteria:

• How is an entrant giving back to the community andwhat is their level of dedication? (How many volunteer hours, how much money or in-kind support donated, etc.)

• How outdated is the current technology of the entrant?

• Which company has the most inefficient documentprocesses, including number of steps within a process?

• How inefficient/outdated is the workspace?

Thom Filicia

One of House Beautiful's Top 100American Designers, Thom Filicia hasemerged as a different kind ofdesigner: one that blends the worlds ofmass media and interior design tocreate an overwhelmingly indelibleimpression.

Weekly, Thom stars as the interiordesign specialist on NBC/Bravo'sEmmy® award winning Queer Eye forthe Straight Guy. In this role, Thomwas also honored with an Emmynomination for Outstanding ArtDirection for a Variety or MusicProgram. Over the past few years,Thom has appeared in countlesstelevision programming including: theOprah Winfrey Show, The TonightShow with Jay Leno, The EllenDegeneres Show, The View, The JanePauley Show, The Tony Danza Show,The Today Show, MTV's 2003 VideoMusic Awards (presenter), AccessHollywood (as red-carpet host for the2003 Emmy Awards), AndersonCooper 360º, CNNfn, MSNBC'sSquawk Box, NBC's comedy GoodMorning Miami, E! News Daily,Barbara Walters presents: The Top 10Most Fascinating People of 2003,VH1's Big in 2004, and South Park.

Prior to his acclaim on Queer Eye forthe Straight Guy, Thom garneredrecognition as a major presence in thedesign industry. In 1999, Thomestablished his own interior companyin New York City, Thom Filicia, Inc.(TFI). TFI specializes in bothresidential and commercial products,with a range of high-profile clients inthe fashion, entertainment, media, realestate and finance industries.

Recently, Thom Filicia and TFI havebeen called upon to design the UnitedStates pavilion for the 2005 World'sFair in Aichi, Japan. In 2004, Thomwas the spokesperson for Pier 1Imports and partnered with Xerox &

Entrepreneur magazine to judge andexecute design elements for theirOffice Makeover Contest. In 2004,Thom designed the tents for Olympus’Fashion Week in New York City and atable at Elle Décor’s “Dining byDesign” DIFFA Event. Otherhighlights include a complete housingrenovation for an Oprah viewer, theKips Bay Designer Showcase, and theHouse & Garden HamptonsShowhouse.

Thom and his designs have beenfeatured in an ever growing list ofpublications including The New YorkTimes, The Washington Post, W, TeenVogue, The Face, City, EntertainmentWeekly, New York Magazine, Details,Out, US Weekly, Cargo, Women's WearDaily, People, The Advocate, The NewYork Post, In Touch, Interior Design,Hamptons, and House & Garden. Inaddition, Thom contributed to theQueer Eye Book: The Fab Five'sGuide to Looking Better, DressingBetter, Behaving Better, & LivingBetter.

Thom studied Interior Design atSyracuse University's School of Artand Design. Early on, Thom focusedhis creativity on high-end interiors,working at the most venerable firms inNew York City. Having established astrong classical foundation, Thom isnow exercising his personal aestheticthat is driven by a unique andinnovative vision of classic simplicity.

Rieva Lesonsky

Rieva Lesonsky brings to her role aseditorial director at EntrepreneurMedia Inc. a winning combination ofexpansive high energy and verve,which has served as the basis for thesuccess of numerous brand extensionswhich include: Magazines —Entrepreneur, Entrepreneur’s Be YourOwn Boss, Entrepreneur China,Entrepreneur Mexico and EntrepreneurPhilippines; websites -Entrepreneur.com,SoyEntrepreneur.com,EntrepreneurPress.com andFreebks.com; Book Publishing -Entrepreneur Press, Entrepreneur’seBooks and Business Start-Up Guides.

Each month, millions of establishedand aspiring entrepreneurs turn toEntrepreneur for the advice, guidanceand inspiration generated by Ms.Lesonsky and her staff. Under hereditorial eye, Entrepreneur Media hasbecome the nation’s leading authorityfor and about entrepreneurs.

Ms. Lesonsky wrote the best-sellingbook Start Your Own Business,currently in its 3rd edition, and has co-authored several other books abouthow to start and grow a small business.

Ms. Lesonsky served on the SmallBusiness Administration’s (SBA)National Advisory Council for sixyears. The SBA also honored her as aSmall Business Media Advocate and aWoman in Business Advocate. For fiveconsecutive years, she was named oneof the Top 100 Most InfluentialJournalists by Business News Reporter.A nationally recognized speaker andexpert on small business andentrepreneurship, Ms. Lesonsky hasappeared on numerous national TVprograms, including The Today Show,Martha Stewart, Good MorningAmerica and Oprah.

Ms. Lesonsky holds a bachelor’sdegree in journalism from theprestigious journalism program at theUniversity of Missouri, Columbia. She is listed in Who’s Who in America.

During her 22-year association withEntrepreneur Media, Ms. Lesonsky has served in various editorial andmanagement capacities. Prior tojoining Entrepreneur Media, her careerincluded research positions for a majorLos Angeles publishing corporation, as well as at Doubleday & Co. in New York City.

Her admittedly full schedulepermitting, Ms. Lesonsky enjoyswatching baseball and relaxing with agood book. Originally a native of NewYork, she now lives in Irvine, California.

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Judge Bios

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Dan Holtshouse

Dan is responsible for helping build a strategicperspective on the emerging trends that will shapethe future of information and knowledge work in the office and across the enterprise. He is alsoleading efforts to better align corporate strategydirections with research and innovation across Xerox.

In his career at Xerox, Dan helped build a corporate-wide focus on Knowledge Management andKnowledge Sharing with a goal to both enhanceinternal work performance as well as guidedevelopment of new products and services thatenhance customer work environments. He has helpedbuild and launch a number of new products andbusinesses including responsibilities for managementof new electronic printing and publishing systems,technology leadership of computer graphics softwaredevelopment, acquisition of software businesses,assessments and spinouts of new technologies,business planning of digital scanning systems, andmarketing management of workstation and computernetwork systems.

Prior to joining Xerox, Dan was responsible for thedesign of advanced automotive electronics at GMand holds some of the early patents for vehicle AirBag Systems. He also worked as a computer designengineer on computer navigation systems for NASAmanned spacecraft systems.

Dan is a frequent contributor to business articles and papers on Knowledge Management, ContentManagement, and Knowledge Work Productivity. He also co-edited the book The KnowledgeAdvantage, published in 1999.

He holds Master’s Degrees in Electrical Engineeringand Business Administration.

Dave Burdakin

Dave Burdakin is president of The HON Companyand executive vice president of HNI Corporation(formerly HON INDUSTRIES). He has been withThe HON Company for twelve years and has beenpresident since 1999.

Under Dave's leadership, The HON Company hasgrown and gained market share, outperforming theindustry despite economic challenges, and hasbecome one of America’s leaders in leanmanufacturing. Dave spearheaded The HONCompany’s investment in customer research andbuilding the HON brand through a number ofinnovative product solutions, advertising, publicrelations, direct marketing and an enhancedcompany Web site — hon.com. He also droveexpansion of The HON Company’s showroom atChicago's Merchandise Mart and opened newshowrooms in New York City and Washington, D.C., in 2003.

During Dave’s tenure, The HON Company wasnamed Manufacturer of the Year by the OfficeFurniture Dealers Alliance in 2003 and 2004, andearned several prestigious awards for its furnituredesign and manufacturing, including the GOODDESIGN® Award from the Chicago Athenaeum:Museum of Architecture and Design, the Nationaland Virginia Shingo Prizes for Excellence inManufacturing, and the Georgia Oglethorpe Awardfor Organizational Performance Excellence.

Prior to joining The HON Company, Dave workedfor Ransburg Corporation, Bendix and AmericanCan Company. Dave received his Bachelor ofScience from Lehigh University and his MBA fromStanford University Graduate School of Business.

Dave serves on the board of directors for WabashNational Corporation and is on the executivecommittee for the City of Hope National OfficeProducts Council.

Stephen Jordan

Stephen Jordan is vice president and executivedirector of the Center for Corporate Citizenship(CCC), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) affiliate of the U.S.Chamber of Commerce, and has served in thiscapacity since the CCC’s founding in May 2000.

In his current position, Mr. Jordan works with abroad spectrum of companies and Americanchambers of commerce in the United States andoverseas and has produced numerous conferences,policy papers, and other projects and programsrelated to the fields of corporate citizenship,business-society relations, ethics, education, disasterassistance, military quality of life, criticalinfrastructure protection, homeland security, andpublic-private partnerships. Some of the mostnotable coalitions he has played a role in launchinginclude the Partnership for Critical InfrastructureSecurity, the National Cyber Safety Alliance,Business Strengthening America, and the CCC’sBusiness Education Network.

He regularly consults with corporate donor advisoryboards and he is a director on two non-profit boards:Communities in Schools — DC and the SouthernBusiness Leadership Council.

Previously, Mr. Jordan served as executive directorof the Association of American Chambers ofCommerce in Latin America from 1997 to 2000. In the private sector, he has worked in the publishingindustry and has a background in strategy, marketingand business development. He began hisprofessional career as a Senate Foreign RelationsCommittee legislative assistant for Inter-Americanaffairs. He holds an MBA from GeorgetownUniversity and an MA in Political and SocialThought from the University of Virginia withaccompanying academic honors from bothinstitutions.

Judge Bios

(1) Grand Prize:

• An office makeover worth up to $125,000*

• A Xerox assessment of office documentprocesses, followed by new officehardware and software aimed at addingcolor and increasing productivity

• Interior design consultation by celebritydesigner Thom Filicia, and designexecution to improve office appearanceand functionality

• New office furniture from The HONCompany

• A three year subscription toEntrepreneur magazine

*The exact retail value of the office makeover will dependon the specific written recommendations made by Xeroxand designer Thom Filicia for improving the appearance,functionality and productivity of the winner's officeenvironment.

(2) Runners up:**

• First runner up will receive a Xeroxcolor multifunction system with anestimated value of at least $2,500, a newoffice chair from The HON Companyand a three-year subscription toEntrepreneur magazine

• Second runner up will receive a Xeroxcolor network printer, with an estimatedretail value of at least $800, a new officechair from The HON Company and athree-year subscription to Entrepreneurmagazine

**The co-sponsors reserve the right to award substituteprizes, based on product availability, that are of equal orgreater value of the runner-up prizes listed above.

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