HR Department Often Last to Know about Employee Issues; Latest Ouch Point(R) Study from Opinion Research Corporation Finds and Lamar Advertising to Present at CL King Best Ideas Conference

City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 09/17/2008 - Marketing Services industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Americans are nearly twice as likely to speak to a friend or colleague than their organization's HR department if they have an issue at work, according to the latest Ouch Point(R) survey from Opinion Research Corporation, an infoGROUP company (NASDAQ: IUSA). Though 66 percent would opt to speak to their manager about an issue, 39 percent prefer to turn to friends and only 22 percent would go to their HR department for help. Respondents over the age of 65, with more experience in the workplace (17%) were found less likely to approach HR than younger respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 (32%).



The newly released research report titled, "Optimizing Application Delivery over the WAN," by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), found that Best-in-Class organizations are spending $31 more per user annually on hardware, software, and services for application delivery and WAN optimization solutions as compared to all others. The report also found that Industry Average and Laggard organizations are spending $36 more per user annually on bandwidth upgrades as compared to Best-in-Class organizations. The report also revealed that this type of approach allowed Best-in-Class organizations to improve application response times by more than 12 times as compared to 13% average improvement for Laggard organizations.

Lamar Advertising Company (NASDAQ: LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, today announced that Sean Reilly, COO and President of the Outdoor Division is scheduled to present at the CL King's Best Ideas Conference which will be held at The Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, New York, New York. The presentation is scheduled for September 18, 2008 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. The presentation will be carried live via audio webcast at the Company's website, www.lamar.com and will be archived for 30 days.

Petel Incorporated (OTC: PTEI), the Broadband TV and Digital Media specialists, recently announce continued growth in revenue with an increase of 131% for Quarter 2 2008 over Quarter 1 2008. Further to Quarter 1 2008 closing with an increase in revenue of 82% over Quarter 4 2007, the board is pleased to announce the group has achieved a 131% increase in Quarter 2 revenue compared to the previous quarter. "We are pleased to register continued growth in revenues for the group from albeit a modest start to first quarter revenues of some $30,000. We now report quarter two revenues of $69,045," comments CEO David Morton.

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