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Merit Audio Visual Announces Change Of Company Name To Merit Software


New York, NY -- Merit Audio Visual has filed with the New York State Department of Corporations to change its company name to Merit Software.

The new name reflects the company's transition from a publisher of supplemental educational videos to a developer of desktop, client/server, and Internet applications, which are effective in improving students' reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and mathematics skills.

Merit has begun a 12- to 18-month effort to tell the educational and IT marketplace of the name change.

Concurrently, a new web site and print catalog will help describe the benefits of using Merit's software and offer technology-based solutions to common problems educators face when trying to boost their student's skills.

Since 1985, Merit has been publishing electronic media products that are effective in improving users' basic skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, grammar, and mathematics.

ABOUT MERIT SOFTWARE:

Since 1983, Merit Software (www.meritsoftware.com) has been producing educational software that addresses the core competencies that students require to succeed. The emphasis is on strengthening students' ability to read, analyze data and communicate their ideas.

Merit Software's programs are known throughout the industry for providing context-sensitive tutorials for students and convenient record management features to aid teachers, tutors and parents.

Visit www.meritsoftware.com to examine the company's library of educational applications currently being used in thousands of educational facilities worldwide.

Merit's educational software has been the subject of rigorous, independent, scientific-based research. These studies have concluded that Merit's software provides an effective supplement to everyday instruction. Research findings are available on www.meritsoftware.com/research.

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