Circuit City, SUBWAY® restaurants, Northern Tool & Equipment, Catalina Marketing pick SAS

New customers advance SAS’ momentum in retail; sales grew 20 percent last year

Retail Systems 2006 Conference & Exposition, CHICAGO (May 23, 2006) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, announced today that four varied retail companies are applying SAS® Retail Intelligence solutions to analyse critical data and make better business decisions. SUBWAY® restaurants, Circuit City, Northern Tool & Equipment and Catalina Marketing join retailers from around the world that use SAS to drive performance and gain insights into customer behaviour, demand forecasting, marketing campaigns and supply-chain costs.

• Circuit City Stores Inc. (NYSE: CC), a retailer of brand-name consumer electronics with more than $10 billion in revenue, is using industry-leading forecasting software from SAS for high-volume SKU forecasting. SAS forecasting enhances Circuit City’s existing planning system by delivering a more accurate view of customer demand. Retail forecast error drives higher safety stock, and Circuit City’s goal is to improve forecast accuracy in order to reduce safety stock and provide a better customer experience. For more information on Circuit City, visit www.circuitcity.com and www.thesourcecc.ca
   
• SUBWAY® restaurants, North America’s largest restaurant chain, is using SAS® Enterprise BI Server to assess costs and analyse store performance. SUBWAY restaurants, which has more than 25,000 locations in 83 countries, chose SAS because of its proven reputation for working with the extraordinarily large volumes of data generated in the restaurant business. For more information about SUBWAY® restaurants, visit www.subway.com

SUBWAY® is a registered trademark of Doctor’s Associates Inc.

• Northern Tool & Equipment, the ultimate source for tools and equipment, has begun implementing SAS® Marketing Automation to sharpen its marketing efforts. SAS, the leader in business intelligence, won Northern Tool’s confidence by offering the company an integrated marketing solution that will help leverage the massive amounts of customer information contained in its database. For more information about Northern Tool & Equipment, visit www.northerntool.com
  
• Catalina Marketing Corp. (NYSE: POS), the global leader in behaviour-based marketing solutions, is using SAS to help analyse customer purchase data. Through the use of SAS® Enterprise Miner™, Catalina will further enhance its business intelligence by assisting retailers and manufacturers to increase customer loyalty and improve response rates in targeted communications programs. For more information about Catalina Marketing, visit www.catalinamarketing.com

SAS retail customers also include Brooks Brothers, Bakers Footwear, Burger King, Carrefour, Casino, Casual Male, The Children’s Place, Fakta, Federated Department Stores, Karstadt, Kohl’s, Li & Fung Retailing Group, The Limited, Lowe’s Companies, Luxottica Retail, Marks & Spencer, Newport News, Office Depot, Sainsbury’s, Sport Chalet, Staples, Tesco, Too Inc., Waitrose Limited, Williams-Sonoma and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM.

SAS recorded a record $1.68 billion in revenue in 2005, including a 20 percent increase in retail industry sales.

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