ModusLink Expands Its European Footprint

Opens New Facility in the Czech Republic

Waltham, MA October 17, 2005 -ModusLink Corporation, a subsidiary of CMGI, Inc. (Nasdaq: CMGI), today announced it has expanded its European operational footprint. The Company has opened a solution center in Brno, Czech Republic delivering end-to-end supply chain solutions. The center is equipped with highly skilled personnel, a robust system infrastructure and proven business processes, enabling clients to decrease the time it takes to bring product to market while increasing customer satisfaction and profitability.

“ModusLink has been delivering supply chain services in Europe for 14 years. Over those years, the company has continued to develop the global footprint, focusing on locations that offer competitive solutions for manufacturing and distributing product to its final destination most efficiently and cost effectively,” said Joseph C. Lawler, President and CEO of CMGI. “The Brno, Czech Republic center is a key element to the European footprint strategy. The new facility offers clients a low cost infrastructure, access to highly skilled labor and strong transportation grid, enabling products to be transported to and from key distribution points with a maximum of four hours’ transportation time for final distribution to countries within Europe or outside of the region to the Americas and Asia regions.”

The new facility adds 75,000 square feet of operational space to the current global footprint, which now totals approximately 725,000 square feet across five countries in Europe. The Brno, Czech Republic facility delivers a broad range of forward supply chain services, including supply chain design and consulting, just-in-time materials planning and procurement, inventory management, assembly and packaging, and fulfillment to clients’ distribution centers, retail partners and end-users, as well as handling the reverse supply chain, including return management, product repair, asset management and disposition, and spares and parts management and fulfillment. The facility is located at CPT Park BRNO, Turanka 96, 627 00 BRNO – Slatina.