NewMarket Technology, Inc. Announces East Africa Trade Mission May 11th to Support Regional Launch Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - January 27, 2009) - NewMarket Technology, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NMKT) today announced that it will host an East Africa Trade Mission departing May 11, 2009 to Kenya. The Trade Mission will be directed at developing investment for early stage businesses in East Africa. NewMarket is developing a pipeline of East African acquisition candidate companies that support NewMarket's emerging market systems integration vision and mission. However, the Trade Mission will also present investment candidates outside of NewMarket's systems integration concentration. Early stage investment candidate industries will include high-tech, agriculture, municipal infrastructure, energy, urban development and manufacturing.

NewMarket has previously launched emerging market operations in Asia and South America. With over 70% of the Company's approximately $100 million in annual revenue coming from emerging markets, NewMarket has established itself as an emerging market systems integrator. The East African Trade Mission is the launch of NewMarket's emerging market expansion onto the African continent.

The East African launch also marks the beginning of a Greenfield business development strategy for NewMarket. Since 2002, NewMarket has utilized micro-cap business development strategies to expand the Company's overall operation from $2 million in annual revenue to approximately $100 million in annual revenue. In conjunction with the magnitude of NewMarket's current operations, the Company intends to move away from continuing to utilize micro-cap business development strategies to directly expand the core operation.

Alternatively, NewMarket's Greenfield strategy will entail facilitating the use of micro-cap business development strategies outside of the Company in order to develop emerging market candidates prior to acquisition by NewMarket. NewMarket will partner with other organizations to establish an independent publicly listed holding company dedicated to acquiring and investing in East African early stage business opportunities. NewMarket will further participate with its partners to identify candidate systems integration companies for acquisition by the independent publicly listed holding company. Following the acquisition of one or more regional systems integration companies, NewMarket will provide services to the one or more acquired companies to facilitate their growth and expansion. Once the companies acquired by the regional holding company have established sustainable momentum, NewMarket will then consider the acquisition of the regional systems integrators from the holding company. NewMarket's partners in the regional holding company will have similar interests with other candidate acquisitions not in the systems integration field.

For more information regarding NewMarket's expansion into East Africa or in regard to the scheduled Trade mission, please contact the Company at info@newmarkettechnology.com or via the phone at 214-722-3065 or 972-386-3372.

Virtual Town Hall Now Available on Corporate Website

NewMarket recently released its 2008 Virtual Town Hall. Each year the Company hosts a Town Hall meeting to review the previous year's results, to preview the Company's plans for the year ahead and outline plans to evolve the Company's growth strategy while adopting lessons learned.

In the past, the Company has hosted meetings in Dallas, Boca Raton, and New Orleans. This year, the Company produced a Virtual Town Hall meeting that is now available online to interested viewers on their own schedule and from their own location. The Town Hall features the Company's operational strengths, demonstrated by the projected historically high 2008 revenue, and profit performance. During the Town Hall, the Company outlines plans to build on its operational strengths to realize continued growth, even in the face of a difficult economy.

The Virtual Town Hall is presented in four segments allowing viewers to select all segments or only those on topics of their interest. The segments are an Introduction, the 2009 Preview, the Greenfield Strategy and the Economic Evolution. The videos can be accessed from NewMarket's corporate website at: http://www.newmarkettechnology.com/media.htm or by going to http://www.wallstreethdtv.com/view_iroadshows.php

Corporate E-mail Updates

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About NewMarket Technology, Inc. (http://www.newmarkettechnology.com/)

NewMarket helps clients maintain the delicate balance between maintaining legacy systems and gaining a competitive edge from the latest technology innovations. NewMarket provides certified systems integration and maintenance services to support the prevailing industry standard solutions from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle, Infor, Cisco Systems, SAP, Siebel and Sun Microsystems. Concurrently, NewMarket continuously seeks to acquire emerging technology assets to incorporate into an overall product portfolio carefully packaged to complement the prevailing industry standard solutions.

NewMarket delivers its portfolio of products and services through its network of Solution Integration subsidiaries in North America and the leading emerging markets around the world to include Latin America, China and Singapore.

NewMarket ranked Number One in Texas, Number Three in the United States and Number Five in North America on Deloitte's 2006 Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in North America. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years, from 2001-2005. The Company grew from less than $1 million in revenue in 2001 to over $50 million in profitable revenue in 2005.

The company has continued its rapid growth, reporting $77.6 million in revenue with a net income of $5.8 million in 2006 and most recently $93.1 million in revenue with a net income of $7.3 million in 2007.

"SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT" UNDER THE PRIVATE SECURITIES LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The statements in this release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to safe harbor provision of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results, events and performance could vary materially from those contemplated by these forward-looking statements. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause NewMarket's actual results in future periods to differ materially from results expressed or implied by forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, product demand and market competition. You should independently investigate and fully understand all risks before making investment decisions.

Contact Information: Contact: NewMarket Technology, Inc. Investor Relations 214-722-3065 ir@newmarkettechnology.com