Gloucester, Mass., May 24, 2004 — TradeStone Software, a pioneering leader in collaborative e-sourcing software, today announced that American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (AE), a leading lifestyle retailer has selected the company's SteppingStones Suite to advance the automation of their global sourcing initiatives. AE joins others major retailers like The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLCE) and Ocean State Job Lots in recently selecting SteppingStones.

SteppingStones is unique in delivering a composite view across multiple systems while eliminating expensive replication and synchronization. It will foster quick adoption throughout AE's extended supply chain making it easy for vendors and factories to collaborate with the Company on orders, prepare packing lists and invoices, and provide advance ship notification.

"With SteppingStones, global order management starts long before an order is generated and includes pre-planning for timely merchandise flow to the stores by selected criteria including color, size and delivery date," said Sue Welch, President and CEO of TradeStone Software. "Our software enables retailers to collaborate and plan months before an actual order is generated, helping to cut costs, boost efficiencies, and shorten time-to-market."

"TradeStone's solution will allow us to leverage our current investment in software while strategically expanding functionality," said Michael Rempell, Senior Vice President and CIO of American Eagle Outfitters. "We are pleased to be working with TradeStone to expand our capabilities to define product, collaborate with vendors, and manage purchases across our global supply chain."

About TradeStone's SteppingStones Suite TradeStone's SteppingStones Suite delivers the most rapidly deployable, functionally- rich e-sourcing technology to the global sourcing market. It is based on 20 years of development that marries technology with deep domain expertise. Built upon the latest Web Services technology, SteppingStones supports all the key functional areas of international buying and selling – the Request for Quote (RFQ) process, order management, track-and-trace visibility, compliance certainty, and payment processing. Conveniently accessed through a Web browser, SteppingStones requires no up-front training for companies and their suppliers and is the first and only composite application for the global sourcing market that works on either a stand-alone basis or can be layered into an application mix to fill global gaps.

About American Eagle Outfitters American Eagle Outfitters (Nasdaq: AEOS) is a leading lifestyle retailer that designs, markets, and sells its own brand of relaxed, casual clothing for 15- to 25-year-olds, providing high-quality merchandise at affordable prices. AE's collection includes modern basics like jeans, cargo pants, and graphic Ts as well as a stylish assortment of cool accessories, outerwear and footwear. AE's Canadian subsidiary, Bluenotes/Thriftys, offers a more urban/suburban, denim-driven collection for 12- to 22-year-olds. American Eagle Outfitters currently operates 745 AE stores in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, 64 AE stores in Canada, and 109 Bluenotes/Thriftys stores in Canada. AE also operates via its Web business, www.ae.com, which offers additional sizes and styles of favorite AE merchandise.

About TradeStone Software, Inc.
TradeStone Software enables retailers and manufacturers to plan, design, collaborate on and purchase goods from across the world as easily as from across the street. TradeStone's Unified Buying Engine uses Web services technology to layer across an organization's existing infrastructure while its modular software fills in buying process gaps to provide a single view, access and interaction across the entire procurement process. The first and only complete solution for global sourcing, product lifecycle management, and unified order management, TradeStone's intuitive "No Training" technology helps people throughout the supply chain to collaborate globally, enabling users to focus on speeding innovative products to market. Marquee customers include American Eagle Outfitters, The Children's Place, Deutsche Woolworth, Ocean State Job Lot, Pacific Alliance and Federated Department Stores. TradeStone Software is based in Gloucester, Mass. and can be found on the Web at www.TradeStoneSoftware.com.

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