CINCINNATI, OH– May 8, 2013 – KSS Retail, a dunnhumby company, today introduced PriceStrat® Analyzer, an advanced business intelligence solution designed to help the retail industry identify trends and exceptions so they can make faster, more accurate decisions about pricing and promotions. PriceStrat Analyzer empowers retailers to better harness their data for more accurate forecasting, while extending analytics throughout the organization for improved transparency and team collaboration.

Data analytics continues to be one of the top investment priorities for retailers. According to RSR Research, retailers are in strong consensus about the operational challenges they face: merchants simply can’t get information fast enough to react to the differences in what they thought might be happening vs. what is actually happening. Furthermore, RSR Research reports that many retailers struggle with the fact that information is siloed inside core systems (1).

PriceStrat Analyzer solves these challenges by enabling pricing teams to create and share dynamic, highly visual web-based dashboards and other reports across merchandising, category management, marketing and finance teams, as well as trade partners and other key stakeholders. Users can simply sort, pivot and filter data to monitor business performance across a spectrum of factors. Here are just a few examples of the pre-built dashboards available in PriceStrat Analyzer:

• Optimization Tracker Dashboard: Enables retailers to measure against forecast baselines to gauge the effectiveness of pricing decisions and identify key trends in various financial metrics – such as sales, units and margin – in an easy-to-use graphical format.
• Promotions Summary Dashboard: Illustrates the effectiveness of advertising and promotional scenarios and their potential cannibalization effects so retailers can make adjustments to optimize performance. Retailers can visually compare forecasts to actual performance of marketing programs.
• Competitive Analysis Dashboard: Presents competitive data at multiple levels – including category, department, zone and store – so key decision makers can monitor competitive positioning in the market and quickly make appropriate changes to improve their edge.

“It’s vitally important that retailers have visibility into the impact of their pricing strategy so they can take active steps to maximize both financial outcomes and customer brand perception,” said Yael Cosset, CEO of KSS Retail and Global CIO of parent company dunnhumby Ltd. “This new analytics solution reinforces KSS Retail’s commitment to ongoing innovation and to making sure that our clients get the most value from our technology solutions. We will continue to focus on combining superior science and data to help retailers transform how they optimize their decision-making process, so they can ultimately deliver what their customers want and need,” Cosset said.

PriceStrat Analyzer will be generally available on May 10, 2013. To learn more, visit http://kssretail.com/solutions/performance-analytics.

About KSS Retail

KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, Tesco, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

(1) Nikki Baird and Steve Bowen, RSR Research, “Retail Business Intelligence: A Work in Progress,” October 2012.

CINCINNATI, OH– April 16, 2013 – KSS Retail, a dunnhumby company, has inked a deal with Spartan Stores, owner and operator of more than 100 grocery stores in Michigan, to provide strategic Advisory Services around price optimization and the use of PriceStrat®, the company’s proprietary decision support software solution. KSS Retail’s experienced consultants will work closely with Spartan Stores to holistically assess the retailer’s pricing practices, systems and processes and then help the firm identify ways to improve its overall price and promotion strategies for business success.

In 2012, KSS Retail unveiled a tiered Advisory Service program to enhance its existing service platform, providing clients with specialized one-on-one senior-level consultation and peer benchmarking. The goal is to help retailers better use the information in their pricing systems to achieve key performance objectives, such as improvements in revenue, profit, market share or brand perception. “Pricing is very strategic to us and we strive for continuous improvement in everyday pricing and promotions,” said Kathy Alles, director, retail pricing and data integration for Spartan Stores. “The benchmarking that KSS provides against other retail customers and the ability to make real-time changes in pricing will help us become more competitive,” Ms. Alles continued.

“We are delighted to be working with Spartan Stores on this initiative,” said Andy Kalamaras, senior vice president of sales and professional services for KSS Retail. “We’ve developed a process that’s truly unique to the industry. Through our highly personalized approach and decades of retail industry experience, Spartan Stores will be able to refine its pricing and promotion strategies so it can become even more shopper centric and strengthen its market position.”

The KSS Advisory Services offering can be customized per client based on company need. For further details about KSS Retail Advisory Services, visit http://kssretail.com/services/kss-advisory-services/.

About Spartan Stores
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Spartan Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPTN) is the nation’s tenth largest grocery distributor with 1.4 million square feet of warehouse, distribution, and office space located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Company distributes more than 40,000 private and national brand products to approximately 375 independent grocery locations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, and to the Company’s 101 corporate owned stores located in Michigan, including Family Fare Supermarkets, Glen’s Markets, D&W Fresh Markets, VG’s Food and Pharmacy, and Valu Land.

About KSS Retail
KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, Kroger, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

SGS Project has been instrumental in providing organizations in the region with advanced enterprise IT solutions and products for more than 5 years. SGS Project clients include large retailers such as Santekhkomplekt, Henderson, Woolstreet, Beringov and Eldorado, as well as clients in the manufacturing and in the oil and gas industries.

KSS Retail is a worldwide leader providing technology and consulting services to help retailers optimize their pricing and promotion strategy. Clients include retailers such as TESCO, The Kroger Co., O’Reilly, 7-Eleven and Sonae. Its flagship software solution, PriceStrat, enables merchandising executives, category managers and pricing analysts to increase their productivity and make better, smarter decisions about pricing particularly in high-volume, low-margin environments.

With the help of KSS Retail, organizations can reduce the risk of bad decisions by utilizing “what-if” scenarios that use real-time data for improved accuracy in forecasting. This in turn enables organizations to enhance their competitive positioning, improve margins, create pricing stability, increase revenue and meet other strategic corporate objectives.
“We are excited about growth in Europe and looking forward to a continued partnership with SGS Project,” KSS Retail CEO Yael Cosset said. “We are confident that our proven success with PriceStrat clients will extend to retailers in the Russian Federation and the rest of Europe.”

“It’s a great pleasure that we can finally provide our customers one of the most advanced solutions for price and promotion optimization,” SGS Project CEO Alexey Sotskov said. “We are looking forward to furthering our relationship with KSS Retail and helping retailers in the Russian Federation to become more successful.”

About SGS Project
SGS Project is a Russian IT company with focus on the retail market. SGS Project provides customers with the world’s best IT solutions and their customer numbers are constantly growing. Also, SGS Project exclusively provides top of the line retail solutions in Russia. SGS Project is a pioneering company founded by IT professionals with many years of retail experience and specialty. With great expertise in the retail sector, SGS Project has helped many customers to improve their business with price optimization, assortment planning and Product Lifecycle and Product Data Management. Current retails clients include Henderson, Woolstreet, Eldorado, Beringov, Santekhkomplekt and others. They also serve and support several customers in the Manufacturing and in the Oil and Gas industries. For more information visit www.SGSProject.com.

About KSS Retail
KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

With nearly a decade of experience, CSolutions has been instrumental in providing organizations in the region with advanced technical solutions and products. Continuing this effort, CSolutions today works with clients in the Baltic region including the countries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

KSS Retail is a worldwide leader providing pricing and promotion optimization technology and consulting. Clients include retailers TESCO, The Kroger Co., O’Reilly, 7-Eleven, and Sonae. Its flagship technology solution, PriceStrat, enables merchandising executives, category managers and pricing analysts to increase their productivity and make better, smarter decisions about pricing particularly in high-volume, low-margin environments.

With the help of KSS Retail, organizations can optimize their pricing and negotiate supplier terms by utilizing “what-if” scenarios that use real-time data for improved accuracy in forecasting. This in turn enables organizations to enhance their competitive positioning, improve margins, create pricing stability, increase revenue, and meet other strategic corporate objectives.

“We are excited about growth in Europe and looking forward to a continued partnership with CSolutions,” KSS Retail CEO Yael Cosset said.

“Becoming partners with KSS Retail is a very important step for us to further develop our business in retail sector in the Baltic States.” CSolutions CEO Aigars Ceruss added.

About CSolutions

Corporate Solutions was founded in 2006, bringing together experienced IT specialists. By the end of 2012, Corporate Solutions had developed into a group including IT, management consulting and business solutions companies with customers based in Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland and Sweden, and employing more than 60 experts in different areas. For more information about the offers of our subsidiaries, please visit our web site www.csolutions.lv or write to us at info@csolutions.lv or phone +371 2965 8393

About KSS Retail

KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

“We see price optimization as a competitive advantage in helping us achieve and maintain our sales objectives for unit sales, sales dollars, gross profit dollars and gross margin,” noted Tim Cosens, Director of Merchandising, Marketing & Technology, McKeever Enterprises. “We believe that KSS and PriceStrat will help us maintain our price image in the midst of fierce competition,” he continued.

“We enable our retail clients to put the customer at the center of everything in order to create greater relevance and improve customer loyalty,” KSS Retail CEO Yael Cosset said. “Since McKeever is one of five independent companies operating a total of 49 Price Chopper locations in the Kansas City area, utilizing PriceStrat will help ensure the customer has a consistent experience and the highest level of relevance no matter what location they shop,” Cosset continued.

KSS Retail executives, including Mr. Cosset, will be available to discuss trends in retail technology and pricing strategy at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show, the largest gathering of retail and technology businesses and professionals in the world, being held this week at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, USA, January 13-16, 2013. KSS Retail is exhibiting in Booth 963.

About McKeever Enterprises, Inc.
McKeever’s Enterprises, Inc. operates nine Price Chopper full service supermarkets in the Kansas City area. Founded in 1976, the McKeever Family has prided itself on providing great value for the community with Fresher Ways to Save!

About KSS Retail
KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

With more than 20 years of experience in the retail sector, Forecast Ltd. has been instrumental in providing organizations in the region with advanced technical solutions and products. Continuing this effort, Forecast today works with clients in the Balkans, Cyprus and Turkey.

KSS Retail is one of the largest and leading companies in the pricing optimization technology worldwide, with facilities and customers worldwide such as TESCO, Kroger, O’Reilly, 7-Eleven, and Sonae. Its flagship technology solution, PriceStrat, enables merchandising executives, category managers and pricing analysts to increase their productivity and make better, smarter decisions about pricing particularly in high-volume, low-margin environments.

With the help of KSS Retail, organizations can optimize their pricing and negotiate supplier terms by utilizing “what-if” scenarios that use real-time data for improved accuracy in forecasting. This in turn enables organizations to enhance their competitive positioning, improve margins, create pricing stability, increase revenue, and meet other strategic corporate objectives.

“We are excited about growth in Europe and looking forward to a continued partnership with Forecast Ltd.,” KSS Retail CEO Yael Cosset said.

KSS Retail executives, including Mr. Cosset, will be available to discuss this partnership as well as retail technology market trends and retailer pricing strategy at the National Retail Federation (NRF) Big Show, the largest gathering of retail and technology businesses and professionals in the world, being held this week at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York City, USA, January 13-16, 2013. KSS Retail is exhibiting at the conference in Booth 963.

About Forecast

Forecast Ltd. is an independent market research and consulting company founded in 1991, with the vision to provide high-quality research and consulting services to businesses and institutions involved in the production and distribution of mass selling goods. In this pursuit Forecast Ltd. excels in pricing research, in-store research and consumer research. For further information, please contact Mr. Spiros Asproudis at sasproudis@forecast.gr or by phone: +30 210 325821/2.

About KSS Retail

KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

BI-LO Holding and its Winn-Dixie stores hope to leverage the KSS Retail optimization solution to model pricing and promotions to ensure that it is delivering even greater value for customers. The KSS Retail optimization solution provides real-time modeling of regular and promotional pricing with the ability to look at pricing by price zones, as well as customer segments.

“The KSS price optimization tool has strengthened BI-LO’s value message with consumers by focusing their pricing efforts on the right items and the right locations,” said Bruce Steadman, Group Vice President of Local Merchandising and Owned Brands. “The combined company will leverage this success across both banners, further enhancing the customer experience and ensuring that customers are provided with the best possible prices on all the products they regularly purchase with us.”

“We are focused on helping our clients develop a deeper understanding of what’s important to their shoppers,” KSS Retail CEO Yael Cosset said. “Utilizing PriceStrat, BI-LO and Winn-Dixie Stores will be able to model, measure and deliver pricing and promotions in-line with their strategy of value for their customers.”

About BI-LO Holding
BI-LO Holding, ninth-largest traditional supermarket chain in the United States. Under the banner names of BI-LO and Winn-Dixie, the company employs 63,000 team members who serve customers in 687 grocery stores and 493 in-store pharmacies throughout the eight southeastern states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. BI-LO and Winn-Dixie are well-known and well-respected regional brands with deep heritages, strong neighborhood ties, proud histories of giving back, talented and loyal team members, and strong commitments to providing the best possible quality and value to customers. For more information, please visit www.bilo.com and www.winn-dixie.com.

About KSS Retail
KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

CINCINNATI, OH– July 26, 2012 – KSS Retail, a dunnhumby company, has developed a tiered Advisory Service program to enhance its existing service platform, in order to provide specialized one-on-one senior level consultation with the goal of optimizing retail customer’s investments and to achieve key strategic objectives.  KSS Retail Advisory Services is highly strategic and seeks to move beyond tactical implementation.

“We’ve developed a process and a program that’s truly unique to the industry.  Our Advisory Service approach begins with detailed analysis, strategic recommendations and key metrics, working to ensure continuous improvement for pricing and promotion optimization”, said Andy Kalamaras, Senior Vice President of Sales & Professional Services for KSS Retail.

The KSS Advisory Services offering can be customized per client, and also includes the option to become a member of its Customer Advisory Board (CAB).  The CAB provides the opportunity for KSS clients to provide direct input and influence the future of its product offerings like PriceStrat® Optimization Solution, the Company’s proprietary tool that allows customers to optimize pricing by shopper segment.

For further details about KSS Retail Advisory services, go to http://kssretail.com/services/kss-advisory-services/.

About KSS Retail

KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

“Our success has been built by truly understanding our customer’s needs and delivering value and service,” said a Dealer Tire spokesperson. “With the KSS Retail PriceStrat solution, we will be able to more intimately understand the end consumers, deliver solutions and recommendations that matter, and improve the shopping experience.”

“We are focused on assisting our clients develop a deeper understanding of what’s important to their customers. Utilizing PriceStrat, Dealer Tire will be able to model, measure and deliver solutions and recommendations in-line with their strategy of value for their supply chain”, noted KSS Retail CEO, Yael Cosset.

 About Dealer Tire LLC

Dealer Tire, LLC is a Cleveland based company that exclusively services the automobile manufacturers and their dealers in the United States and Canada.  Dealer Tire is the only national firm exclusively dedicated to helping original equipment automobile manufacturers design, implement and manage profitable tire programs for their dealerships that, in turn, increase customer satisfaction, customer safety and customer retention.

 About KSS Retail

KSS Retail, a dunnhumby Company, is the premier global provider of price optimization and shopper insight solutions for the grocery, convenience, chain drug, general and online retail industries. Retailers use KSS Retail software and professional services to better understand their shopper’s needs, and to deliver more effective pricing, promotions and merchandising decisions. KSS Retail clients consistently achieve improved market share, sales and profit growth, and enhanced competitive positioning. Current clients include 7 Eleven, O’Reilly Auto Parts, BI-LO, Sonae, Raley’s, United Supermarkets, dabs.com, ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, and many others. For more information, visit www.KSSRetail.com.

“As we ready to launch our next generation of PriceStrat capability, we are focused on delivering maximum value to our existing and future clients by transforming how they will optimize prices and promotions moving forward. In this environment, Andy is uniquely positioned to provide sales and service leadership globally to help meet our business objectives,” said Yael Cosset, CEO of KSS Retail.

Mr. Kalamaras was most recently Northeast Regional Sales Director for Guidance Software, where he exceeded sales goals and helped lead the North American implementation of Salesforce.com.

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