Contact: Tom Winterstein, SVP Sales & Marketing Tortal, Inc. (704) 644-8136 info@Tortal.net

For Immediate Release

YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity Selects Tortal to Create its Online Training University
Tortal Chosen to Create Online Training Programs Delivered through its Learning Management System

Charlotte, NC  03/17/2009: Tortal Inc., a leading provider of online training portals and eLearning courses announced the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity has selected Tortal to create, develop, and manage its online training university.

The YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity is a community service organization that promotes positive values through programs that help to build strong kids, strong families and strong communities.
 
Over the years, the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity has grown to include 11 branches and 55 program sites throughout the Greater Philadelphia area.

Tortal’s solution will provide the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity the ability to track, document, and report on a learner’s progress as well as provide internet hosting, security and maintenance services, and help desk support.  The initial training program will include Child Abuse Prevention, Member Experience Training, Volunteer Sports Coaching, Workplace Harassment, YMCA Quality, and Blood borne Pathogens. Tortal President Cordell Riley stated “we’re delighted to be selected by the YMCA of Philadelphia to launch an online training program that will not only benefit their employees and staff but in the long run will reduce the overall cost of training.”

Tortal’s cost effective custom eLearning solutions and Learning Management System are delivered entirely over the internet providing 24/7/365 access to training, learning, and assessment materials.

About Tortal, Inc.
Tortal, a Driven Brands Company, is the leading provider of online training portals and eLearning systems in the franchise industry.  Tortal also offers its eLearning products and services to other corporate entities, government, education, and non-profit organizations.  Driven Brands, Inc., is headquartered in Charlotte, NC, and serves as parent company for the separate businesses: Meineke Car Care Centers, Inc. (a franchise-based automotive service and repair chain); Maaco (market leader in franchised auto body repair and painting), Aero-Colours, Inc. (a franchised chain of mobile automotive paint repair services); Econo Lube & Tune (a franchised chain of automotive repair/quick lube services) and Tortal.  Learn more at www.Tortal.net and www.DrivenBrands.com

About the YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity
The YMCA of Philadelphia & Vicinity serves more than 52,000 members and 140,000 individuals a
year through ten branch locations and 55 program sites in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Delaware counties. In
each community it serves, the YMCA is a vital home-away-from home for its members, a link to positive values
and a place that strengthens minds, bodies and spirits through programs including: child care and Head Start,
summer camp, youth sports, aquatics, YMCA Achievers, water aquasize, adult literacy and more. Throughout
the Y, an emphasis is placed on building character through the values of caring, honesty, respect and
responsibility. On the web at www.philaymca.org