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Alcoa Selects Integrity Interactive
for its web-based corporate compliance initiative
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$20.3 billion global corporation will use online training to spread its ethics and compliance culture to newly acquired companies

Dedham, Mass., April 28, 2003—Alcoa, the world's largest aluminum producer, has chosen Integrity Interactive's Web-based training courses as part of a company-wide enhancement of its ethics and compliance programs, Integrity Interactive announced today.

Integrity Interactive is providing Pittsburgh-based Alcoa with online training modules covering more than 140 ethics and compliance topics ranging from antitrust prevention to safety-related issues. Alcoa, a $20.3 billion, 127,000-employee corporation with operations in 40 countries, will use the Integrity Interactive modules to quickly and efficiently train a substantial portion of its employees in ethics and compliance issues. Employees receive e-mail notifications listing the required courses and recommended supplemental courses. The Integrity Interactive tracking system tells Alcoa's ethics compliance managers who have taken the required courses, whether they completed them, and how well they did. The company plans to expand its use of Integrity Interactive courses after the initial rollout is completed in 2003.

Alcoa selected Integrity Interactive for its compliance expertise, high completion rates and courses that favor plain language and real-world scenarios over legal terminology. That makes them appropriate for the full range of Alcoa employees, from the executive team to front-line workers, according to Perry Minnis, Alcoa's director, ethics compliance and advisory services. Integrity is also customizing some of its modules with Alcoa-specific policies and information.

"Historically, our process for teaching our value system and ethics was accomplished through preventive law training, normally conducted at a business' request. Many employees learned throughout their career by asking questions and observing co-workers," Minnis said "When our population went from 60,000 to more than 100,000 over the last several years, however, we didn't have years for people to catch up. A Web-based system is a convenient, cost-effective vehicle that reaches large audiences. The message is also consistent. It would have been hard to maintain that consistency if we did all the training through our managers. " Alcoa's Integrity Interactive-based training program is part of a broad-based program to reinforce its culture and ethics throughout global operations with a particular focus on the companies it acquired during a 1990s expansion period that quadrupled its size. Starting in 2000, the company launched an aggressive program to promote its corporate culture, which included ethical and compliance guidelines. Integrity Interactive offered the means to train a significant part of the fluctuating employee population in a relatively short time with consistency and without large overhead expenses.

"Progressive companies like Alcoa that are serious about propagating their corporate cultures and value systems are increasingly realizing the value of Web-based ethics and compliance training," said Integrity Interactive President Carl Nelson. "We're grateful for the opportunity to show how well our training can work in a large, geographically dispersed company like Alcoa, the way it does at other Integrity Interactive customers such as Chevron Phillips, Cox Communications, Dow Corning, and General Dynamics."

About Alcoa

Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses as a single solution to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap® foils and plastic wraps, Alcoa® wheels, and Baco® household wraps. Among its other businesses are vinyl siding, closures, precision castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The company has 127,000 employees in 40 countries. More information can be found at www.alcoa.com.

About Integrity Interactive

Integrity Interactive Corporation is the leading corporate ethics and compliance company. The company offers Fortune 1000 corporations Web-based compliance training and communications in more than 140 compliance topics, including Antitrust, Financial Integrity, Insider Trading, Export Controls, Dangers of Cover Ups, Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Respect. Nationally recognized legal experts in corporate ethics and compliance design Integrity's courses. The Integrity Interactive® System offers ethics and compliance training on its IntegrityWebTM Internet legal e-learning site. The courses cover a broad range of ethics and legal compliance topics and use realistic scenarios about compliance gaps set at the fictional companies, GlobeCoTM and GlobeteckTM. Integrity Interactive also offers a Web-based "hot-line" reporting and case management service on its Integrity WebLineSM system. For more information about Integrity, please visit the Web site at www.integrity-interactive.com.

Integrity Interactive® is a registered trademark of Integrity Interactive Corporation. Integrity WebTM, GlobeCoTM , Integrity WebLineTM and GlobeteckTM are trademarks of Integrity Interactive Corporation.



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