Press Release

ROCKFORD, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 6, 2000--Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (NYSE:WWW) announced today it has launched 24-hour customer service via a new Business-to-Business web site made possible by software solutions from IMPRESS SOFTWARE and SAP. The site provides Wolverine's retail customers and sales representatives with the ability to check order status, track shipments, check stock availability, place orders and browse the product catalogs for all of Wolverine's nine consumer brands. Retail customers can also request shoes be shipped directly to their customer's home. Wolverine is promoting the site to its dealer network with a limited offer that waives small order and drop-ship handling charges as well as same-day shipping on orders placed through the site by noon Eastern Time each day.

"After successfully digesting our core implementation of SAP's Apparel and Footwear Solution in 1999, extending these capabilities to our customers is the next logical step," said James Weston, Wolverine World Wide's CIO. Wolverine's Business-to-Business web initiatives already include order tracking and communication tools used by its international licensees, distributors and contract factories launched during the fourth quarter of 1999, and Sales Force Automation tools launched in the first quarter of 2000. "We are taking significant advantage of what the Internet and our systems upgrade make possible in the Business-to-Business arena," said Weston.

SAP is the world's leading provider of e-business software solutions. Its software is installed at more than 13,000 companies in over 100 countries. The company is listed on several exchanges including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP."

IMPRESS SOFTWARE, based in Hanover, Germany, and Boston, Mass., is a certified SAP partner and has been specializing in connecting SAP™ R/3® and other business systems to the Internet since 1996. It has been involved in several major Internet projects worldwide, including those for BMW, Siemens and Adidas AG.

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. manufactures and markets a wide variety of branded footwear and performance leathers. Major branded products of the Company include: Bates® Uniform Footwear; Caterpillar® Footwear; Coleman® Footgear; Harley-Davidson® Footwear; Hush Puppies® shoes, slippers, and accessories; HYTEST® safety footwear; Merrell® performance outdoor footwear; Wolverine® work, sport and rugged outdoor footwear, apparel and accessories; Stanley footgear; and Wolverine® All Season Weather Leathers™. The Company's premier comfort technologies include: Air Paradise™, Bounce® , Comfort Curve® , Wolverine DuraShocks® and DuraShocks Motion Control™, Wolverine Fusion™ and Zero-G™.