Keystone Internet Services, Inc. and KBKIDS.COM, LLC Terminate Agreement

WEEHAWKEN, NJ – July 25, 2000 – Hanover Direct, Inc. (AMEX: HNV) announced today that Keystone Internet Services, Hanover’s e-commerce services provider, and KBKids.com, LLC have mutually agreed to terminate and not renew the fulfillment services agreement previously entered into by the companies. Based on KBkids.com’s intention to perform its fulfillment needs in-house instead of outsourcing fulfillment to Keystone, the companies have begun the 60-day wind-down period pertaining to services provided by Keystone to KBkids.com.

About Hanover Direct, Inc.
Hanover Direct, Inc. (AMEX: HNV) and its business units provide quality, branded merchandise through a portfolio of catalogs and e-commerce platforms to consumers, as well as a comprehensive range of Internet, e-commerce, and fulfillment services to businesses. Hanover Brands, Inc. is comprised of the Company’s catalog and e-commerce web site portfolio of home fashions, apparel, general merchandise and gift brands, including Domestications, The Company Store, Turiya, Domestications Kitchen & Garden, Kitchen & Home, Encore, Improvements, Silhouettes International Male, Undergear, and Gump’s By Mail. Hanover Direct is the exclusive distributor of the Compagnie de la Chine brand in North America; the Company owns Gump’s, a retail store based in San Francisco; and the Company has a majority equity stake in Always In Style®. Each brand can be accessed on the Internet individually by name. erizon, Inc. is comprised of Keystone Internet Services, Inc. (www.keystoneinternet.com), the Company’s third party, end-to-end, fulfillment, logistics and e-care provider, and Desius, LLC, the Company’s joint venture with RS Software India, Ltd., offering 24/7-web shop services and e-commerce systems development. The erizon subsidiary also services the logistical, IT and fulfillment needs of the Hanover Brands subsidiary. Information on Hanover Direct, including each of its subsidiaries, can be accessed on the Internet at www.hanoverdirect.com.

About Camdens, Inc.
Camdens is the leading e-commerce and services company delivering end-to-end executive gift, reward, recognition and incentive solutions to Fortune 5000 companies. The Company combines a business-to-business focus and innovative technology with a strong commitment to outstanding merchandise and customer service. The result is a highly customized, efficient and scalable enterprise solution that enables corporations to manage and control all of their corporate gifting through a single point of contact. In addition to simplifying and unifying corporate gift procurement, Camdens gives corporate customers a multitude of back end reporting features that help deliver discipline and control to the corporate gift process.

Camdens launched its service in September 1999. The company is headquartered in White Plains, NY.

CONTACT:

Hanover Direct, Inc.
Brian C. Harriss
Sr. VP – Chief Financial Officer
Tel: (201) 272-3224

AGG International, Public Relations
Paula Zwerdling / paula@aggintl.com
Tel: (212) 869-8230

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