NewMarket Technology, Inc. Announces $2.7 Million in New Sales With 3rd Microsoft Contract in 2 Weeks

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - August 12, 2009) - NewMarket Technology, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NWMT) today announced the Company's subsidiary RKM has completed the sale of an approximately $500,000 three-year Microsoft corporate licensing contract with Papeles Venezolanos (PAVECA). The revenue will be recognized in equal portions over the next three years. NewMarket and its subsidiaries are focused on turning short-term, project-based contracts into long-term managed services contracts to support their recurring revenue business. The Company recently announced two other Microsoft corporate licensing contracts totaling $2.2 million, including one with Banco Federal (www.bancofederal.com).

RKM is a Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) and Enterprise Software Advisor (ESA) in Latin America and received the prestigious Associate of the Year in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions award at FOCUS 2009. Mid-Market and corporate customers in Latin America seek out the services of LAR/ESAs when implementing large Microsoft-based IT projects. Through this partnership with Microsoft, RKM offers high volume licensing, specifically "Enterprise Agreement" (EA) and "Select" for companies with more than 250 PCs and support services to large enterprises and institutional customers.

$1.00 - $2.50 Share Price Potential

NewMarket recently released an exclusive on-demand Webcast to review the Company's positive operating income for the previous three years and revenue growth from approximately $78 million in 2006 to $95 million in 2008. The focus of the Webcast is to present the potential for the share price to increase from the recent price per share of $0.45 to $1.00 and as high as $2.50. The price per share potential is suggested in conjunction with the presentation of the market capitalization values of comparative public companies. The presentation includes an outlook on the anticipated profitable revenue increase in 2009.

The Webcast is now available for review on the Company's corporate website. A link to the Webcast titled 'NewMarket Corporate Update (August 4, 2009)' is available on the Investor Relations page of the NewMarket website under Current Events and Communications at: http://www.newmarkettechnology.com/investor-relations.htm. For assistance accessing or listening to the Webcast, please email ir@newmarkettechnology.com or call 214-722-3065.

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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.

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