Verisk Analytics : 3E Company and Locus Technologies Announce Strategic Collaboration — October 29, 2014

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Carlsbad, Calif., October 29, 2014 - 3E Company, a leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, and Locus Technologies (Locus), a leading provider of cloud-based environmental compliance and EH&S management software, announced a strategic collaboration today. 3E Company is a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business.

The alliance brings together 3E's substance-level global regulatory content and product-level safety data sheet (SDS) data and Locus's compliance and EH&S software platform. The combined offering provides companies with a comprehensive, efficient, and affordable solution set for hazardous communication and workplace safety that can reduce risk and help streamline conformance with EH&S regulations.

The collaboration highlights both companies' respective strengths. These assets include 3E's unique ability to research, source, aggregate, enrich, and maintain EH&S compliance-related data and information and make it available in a customer-specific and easy-to-use format and Locus's proven capability to build and maintain flexible, user-friendly software systems. Integrating 3E's critical data with Locus's software enables joint customers to manage EH&S management and compliance obligations within a comprehensive cloud platform.

"As the industry-leading provider of EH&S regulatory information and compliance management services, 3E has a diverse network of trusted companies with which we collaborate," said Uday Virkud, president and CEO, 3E Company. "Our alliances with these companies enable our joint customers to better meet their regulatory and safety obligations. We're delighted to collaborate with Locus and are confident that our customers will benefit from having seamless access to 3E's data through Locus's platforms."

"We're excited to offer our customers access to 3E data and to use the flexibility of our software platform to create an integrated solution with the industry's most comprehensive and up-to-date data and content offering. This alliance stems out of Locus's commitment to providing our customers with the most extensive tool set available to better manage their compliance and EH&S requirements," said Neno Duplan, president and CEO, Locus Technologies. "Collaborating with 3E offers our joint customers streamlined access to valuable data that can positively affect their compliance management strategies - improving their operations and data quality while reducing risk and associated costs."

About 3E Company
3E Company, a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business, offers a comprehensive suite of data and solutions for environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance management. This solutions suite addresses the entire chemical life cycle and includes regulatory research; SDS authoring, distribution, and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E provides an industry-leading combination of a 24/7/365 EH&S mission-control call center and the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. 3E was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with additional operations in Canton, Ohio; Bethesda, Maryland; Kingsport, Tennessee; Montreal, Quebec; and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com.

About Locus Technologies
Locus has been providing businesses with the power to be green on-demand since its founding in 1997. Locus's cloud software enables companies to organize and validate all key environmental information in a single system, which includes analytical data for water, air, soil, greenhouse gases, sustainability, compliance, and environmental content. Locus software is delivered through Cloud Computing (SaaS), so there is no hardware to procure, no large up-front license fee, and no complex set-ups. For more information, visit www.locustec.com or email info@locustec.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.