NewMarket Technology, Inc. Latin American YTD Financial Performance Lifts Already Higher Than Anticipated Overall Sales Performance

Monday August 18, 9:16 am ET

Company Management to Conduct Webcast Thursday, August 21, to Discuss Q2 2008 and YTD Financial Results

DALLAS, TX--(MARKET WIRE)--Aug 18, 2008 -- NewMarket Technology, Inc. (OTC BB:NMKT.OB - News) today released an update on YTD revenue and net income growth for the Company's operations in Brazil, Chile and Venezuela. The Latin American operations have reported $12.6 million in revenue YTD with $528,600 in net income, supporting the Company's global goal of $120 million in profitable revenue for 2008. In 2007, NewMarket reported $93.1 million in revenue with $7.3 million in net income across all its operations.

NewMarket Technology has recently announced year-to-date higher than anticipated North American sales. The sales increase is expected to improve revenue and profit. The Latin American operations revenue performance will enhance the Company's overall revenue performance. The operations in Latin America are leading Microsoft and Oracle partners in the region and have seen substantial growth from these partnerships over the past year.

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About NewMarket Technology, Inc. (www.newmarkettechnology.com) 

NewMarket helps clients maintain the delicate balance between maintaining legacy systems and gaining a competitive edge from the latest technology innovations. NewMarket provides certified integration and maintenance services to support the prevailing industry standard solutions such as Microsoft, Cisco Systems, SAP, Siebel and Sun Microsystems. Concurrently, NewMarket continuously seeks to acquire emerging technology assets to incorporate into an overall product portfolio carefully packaged to complement the prevailing industry standard solutions.

NewMarket delivers its portfolio of products and services through its network of Solution Integration subsidiaries in North America and the leading emerging markets around the world to include, Latin America, China and Singapore.

NewMarket ranked Number One in Texas, Number Three in the United States and Number Five in North America on Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2001-2005. The Company grew from less than $1 million in revenue in 2001 to over $50 million in profitable revenue in 2005. In 2006, the company continued its rapid growth, reporting $77.6 million in revenue with a net income of $5.8 million.

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