2007 Mid-Market All Stars

Ocean State Job Lot has been honored with a 2007 Mid-Market All Stars award by RIS News magazine. The awards recognize small-to-midsize retailers who have achieved impressive marketplace success and growth in year-over-year sales and revenue gains.

OSJL's expansion efforts cap a year of significant growth, adding three stores and growing sales to $350 million. Today, OSJL employs 3,000 at over 80 stores. Company officials project the addition of five or more new stores in 2007. With TradeStone’s Unified Buying Process to take advantage of opportunistic buys, OSJL was able to double their imports, year over year, since implementation. And with the margin differential of 20-35% on imported merchandise, store profits are growing, too!

This is a fine example of an IT investment paying off handsomely for merchandising and top-line growth. For more details on this award, please read the press release.

2006 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100

Supply & Demand Chain Executive named TradeStone and the Unified Buying Process to its list of top supply chain vendors for the second year in a row.

Customers nominated TradeStone in three areas: commitment to customer success, innovative functionality, and rapid and repeatable ROI.

For more details on this honor, please read the press release.

Global Retail Achievement Award

Retail Systems named Deutsche Woolworth the Winner of the Global Retail Achievement Award for their deployment of the TradeStone Suite.

Earlier in 2005, Gartner Research and Computerwoche Magazine highlighted Woolworth’s deployment of the TradeStone Suite as the IT Implementation of the Year.

To learn more, please read the press release.

2006 Pros to Know

Sue Welch was recently named a Pro to Know by Supply and Demand Chain Executive Magazine.

"Sue Welch has shown herself to be a thought-leader in the fields of global sourcing and unified order management," said Andrew K. Reese, editor of Supply & Demand Chain Executive.

For more information, please read the press release.