January 26, 2006

Brookshire Brothers Grocery Selects KSS for Fuel Center Intelligent Price Optimization Solution

Texas-based retailer to rollout KSS PriceNet pricing and optimization solution across all fuel sites

Florham Park, NJ – January 26, 2006 – Brookshire Brothers, a grocery retailer with over 70 grocery stores and 71 fuel centers in East Texas, has selected the KSS PriceNet intelligent pricing solution to provide efficient fuel price management and optimization at it’s corporate fuel centers. Brookshire Brothers is one of the world’s leading retail distributors of Conoco branded gasoline and had previously selected KSS PriceStrat for it’s in-store price modeling and optimization solution. Brookshire Brothers will use KSS PriceNet to model and forecast the impact of different fuel pump prices to consistently achieve volume and margin goals. KSS PriceNet will also provide insight into the relationship of fuel pricing on in-store sales.

Larry Negron, Director of Petroleum Marketing at Brookshire Brothers stated, “With the volatility of gasoline prices today, it is extremely crucial for us to analyze our pricing and competition on a daily basis. KSS PriceNet allows us to monitor and adjust pricing strategies in real-time. In an industry where daily rack price changes can result in 40 to 50 percent swings in street margin, it is imperative that we are competitive and profitable at every single location, for every single price decision. KSS PriceNet gives Brookshire Brothers a definite pricing advantage over our competition. We are able to analyze different pricing scenarios per location and price in a way that will not only generate the highest volume results, but the greatest ROI as well.”

“Brookshire Brothers maintains a very keen focus on providing value to their customers,” said Iain Cockburn, Chief Executive Officer at KSS. “By utilizing the suite of KSS Intelligent Pricing solutions for both their stores and their fuel centers, they will have a better understanding of customer demand across their whole business, combined with the tools and capability to leverage that understanding for better pricing decisions. The KSS Price Modeling suite is installed within their four walls which reduces their costs and allows them access to Optimization, On-Demand.”

KSS PriceNet is an intelligent fuel price management system with the ability to accurately track volume and competitive price moves in the market and optimize fuel pump pricing, by grade of fuel, by location. KSS PriceStrat is an intelligent store item pricing workbench that enables price and promotion planning and optimization. The KSS Library of consumer demand models provides the basis for understanding and forecasting consumer demand across the store and fuel center, as well as the inter-relationships of these purchases. KSS will demonstrate these solutions at FMI’s Marketechnics technology show in San Diego, Jan. 30th - Feb. 1st, in booth # 951.

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.

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Mark Hawtin, Vice President Marketing Tel: +44 (0)161 228 0040

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