October 3, 2006

Giant Eagle® Inc. Optimizes Fuel Pricing For Added Value And Efficiency Using KSS PriceNet

105 Get Go® fuel and convenience stores complete KSS software rollout

Florham Park, N.J.–Oct. 3, 2006 – KSS, the global leader in fuel pricing automation and optimization solutions, announced today that Giant Eagle® has completed the software rollout of KSS PriceNet for fuel price automation and optimization at 105 GetGo® convenience store locations.

“KSS PriceNet has provided us with the ability to automate and more effectively manage our fuel pricing process,” said Dan Pastor, vice president of fuels and convenience at Giant Eagle. “We are focused on delivering exceptional value to our customers and KSS PriceNet is helping us achieve this goal.”

Giant Eagle, one of the nation’s largest food retailers and food distributors with approximately $6.2 billion in annual sales, is using KSS PriceNet to automate manual fuel pricing tasks.

“The KSS PriceNet solution has allowed Giant Eagle to better understand, manage and automate the fuel pricing process,” said Bob Stein, chief executive officer of KSS’ fuels division. “With PriceNet, Giant Eagle is able to react quickly to rapidly changing market conditions to ensure that they are delivering consistent value to their customers.”

KSS PriceNet is available as an on-site, fully integrated pricing system designed to add discipline to the pricing process and help operators make better informed pricing decisions. KSS PriceNet organizes and analyzes all of the relevant pricing and market data and provides dynamic pricing rules with an industry best-practice workflow and process to control all pricing activities. KSS PriceNet uses KSS’ leading demand modelling and optimization technology to allow operators to set prices by taking into account the individual competitive and demand dynamics for each grade of fuel, at each site.

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About Giant Eagle

Giant Eagle Inc., ranked 34 on Forbes magazine’s largest private corporations list and past recipient of Progressive Grocer’s Retailer of the Year Award and the EPA’s ENERGY STAR Retail Partner of the Year Award, is one of the nation’s largest food retailers and food distributors with approximately $6.2 billion in annual sales. Founded in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has grown to be the number one supermarket retailer in the region with 144 corporate and 72 independently owned and operated supermarkets in addition to more than 100 fuel and convenience stores throughout western Pennsylvania, Ohio, north central West Virginia and Maryland.

About KSS

KSS is the global leading provider of pricing analytics, price management, rules-based pricing and optimization technology and services to fuel retailers and wholesalers in the oil and gas, convenience store, grocery and big box retail industries. KSS clients include global, national and regional companies managing a total of over $100 billion in revenue through more than 20,000 fuel sites and rack terminals, throughout the world. KSS US headquarters are located in Florham Park, NJ with European headquarters in Manchester, UK.

For further information please visit the website at www.kssg.com or contact:

Bob Stein, Chief Executive Officer Tel: +1 (973) 549 1850
Mark Hawtin, Vice President Marketing Tel: +44 (0)161 228 0040

For media inquiries, contact Roy Miller Tel: +1 972 717 3500 ext 235 or rmiller@transsynergy.com

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