For Immediate Release

STIRLING DOUGLAS GROUP

Reports Several new Clients

Forecasting expert captures much of the office supply retail market

CHICAGO, April 17, 2000: Continuing a streak of client wins, SDG Software (Stirling Douglas Group Inc.), Toronto, ON, today announced here at the Retail Systems 2000several new customers for its store/SKU forecasting based applications. Among the new customers is one of America’s leading office supply superstore chains, which joins Office Max as a client of the world leader in consumer demand forecasting systems, and Belk Inc., the nation’s largest privately-owned department store. New Zealand’s The Warehouse Limited, France Printemps, Supersol of Israel, Liverpool of Mexico and Keikaku of Japan are among some of the new global customers who have recently joined the SDG family of satisfied users.

"SDG continues to grow its customer base by providing unmatched solutions to the forecasting and replenishment challenges facing retailers, distributors and manufacturers today," said Doug Cook, President and CEO of SDG.

"Our integrated solutions and forecasting engine, ideally position us to furnish our customers with the highest degree of certainty and accuracy from our applications and the training and personal support required to get the most out of our systems."

Earlier in the year SDG announced the release of its Best-of-Breed PREDICT™ Forecasting Engine as a stand-alone tool. The robust forecasting, replenishment and planning system offers increased certainty in forecasting at the store/SKU level allowing retailers to dramatically improve service levels by reducing out of stocks, while optimizing inventory investment, and thus providing compelling ROI.

About Stirling Douglas Group

Stirling Douglas Group (SDG) is the world leader in SKU/Store Level consumer demand forecasting engines. Sixteen years of forecasting systems development on mainframe, client server and now web enabled, has made SDG’s PREDICT™ demand forecasting engine the world’s most accurate for baseline and promotion uplift. SDG’s expertise extends to forecast based replenishment, PROMPT™, and forecast based planning, MAPS™. All SDG software is platform independent. For more information visit SDG’s website: www.stirlingdouglas.com.