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NXTI News Next Inc. Increases Ranking in the Major Collegiate Licensing Program

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Next Inc. (OTCBB: NXTI) today announced that the company and its licensed college sportswear program has moved into the fourteenth position as one of the 25 top-selling companies on the Collegiate Licensing Company’s most recent rankings.

The Collegiate Licensing Company ("CLC"), according to its recent press release announced that Next Inc. has claimed the 14th position among some of the "major distributors" such as Nike USA(R), Champion(R) and Adidas(R). The Collegiate Licensing Company is the oldest and largest collegiate licensing agency in the nation. CLC currently represents more than 200 colleges, universities, bowl games, athletic conferences, The Heisman Trophy, and the NCAA including the Men's and Women's Final Four, the College World Series, and all NCAA Championships.

Ms. Colleen Lund, the Company's Director of Licensing stated "We are pleased to have improved our ranking with CLC by three positions. Our collegiate business has long been an important facet of our business providing a strong foundation for the Company. This progress clearly illustrates management is executing with regard to their previously stated goal of improving last years standing.”

About Next Inc. http://www.nextinc.net

Next Inc. is a creative and innovative sales and marketing organization. Next Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes licensed and branded promotional products and imprinted sportswear primarily through major college and university, motor sports and other major promotional key licensing agreements. Next is one of the dominant companies in the highly fragmented licensed promotional products and imprinted sportswear industries.

The company has expanded its distribution to include e-commerce through which a significant amount of the Company's most popular licensed products is marketed. The most significant are, www.campustraditionsusa.com, www.rpmsportsusa.com, www.americanbiker.com and www.americanwildlife.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which contains a safe harbor for forward-looking statements. The Company relies on this safe harbor in making such disclosures. The statements are based on management's current beliefs and assumptions about expectations, estimates, strategies and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements.