1418 Companies Compare Themselves to the PCI in the First Month of the Challenge.

Chicago, IL August 05, 2006 – Entrex and the Private Business Channel announce that over 1400 companies have "taken the Challenge" in the first week of operations.

"We are exhilarated by the response we have had and the multiple companies that have requested to join the index” said Stephen H. Watkins CEO of Entrex and the Founder of the Private Company Index. “What is amazing is looking at the overall performance of the anonymous data. Obviously it is not matches the index performance… but it becomes obvious that sales for private companies is still vibrant.”

"This has been a challenge to get up, running and embraced... but slowly the financial community is earmarking this as a benchmark of private companies."

About Private Company Index

The Private Company Index (www.privatecompanyindex.com) provides the financial and investment community a resource to objectively measure private business activity. The Index also allows business owners and the general public the ability to follow the trends and productivity of privately owned businesses.

The Index was created by Entrex (www.entrex.net)-the global source to find, research, track, manage and trade interests in private companies- along with the Private Business Channel (PBC) (www.privatebusinesschannel.com) an online video and television production company featuring the best-of-breed private companies on the path to open their equity to private investors.