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Coca-Cola Enterprises Taps JDA Software to Optimize Space and Category Performance and Deliver Market-Specific Assortments.


Streamlined Processes Help the World's Largest Bottler and Distributor of Coca-Cola and Other Branded Beverages to Increase Sales Volume and Profitability

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: JDAS) today announced that Coca-Cola Enterprises Coca-Cola Enterprises NYSE: CCE is the largest bottler by volume in the Coca-Cola System. It is the anchor bottler for North America and parts of Europe.

The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products, and in some areas a few other soft drink
, Inc. has deployed several applications in JDA's Space & Category Management solution suite, including JDA([R]) Space Planning, JDA([R]) Space Automation, JDA([R]) CategoryAdvisor and JDA([R]) Intactix Knowledge Base solutions, to streamline productivity and leverage retail shopper insights to drive positive business results.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola Enterprises is the world's largest non-alcoholic bottler, with annual revenues of $21 billion. Coca-Cola Enterprises sells approximately 80 percent of The Coca-Cola Company's bottle and can volume in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and is the sole licensed bottler for Coca-Cola's products in Belgium, France, Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. , Luxembourg, Monaco and The Netherlands.

The JDA solutions provide Coca-Cola Enterprises with a robust platform for planogram creation and analysis with integration to retailer point-of-sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

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) data. JDA Space Automation and Space Planning applications enable the execution of top-level category plans to optimize store-specific assortment management. The company utilizes JDA Intactix Knowledge base to better manage planograms, product allocation, store and merchandise data, as well as performance data and other key elements.

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 a solution that would allow us to deliver merchandising solutions that reflect the differences across stores to effectively bring the right products to consumers at the right locations," said Luisa Eichman, director of space planning services at Coca-Cola Enterprises. "We also needed to create a business process to ensure quality checks on store-level planograms, while at the same time increasing the productivity, efficiency and effectiveness of the planogram process."

The solutions that Coca-Cola Enterprises selected also had to support its Shopper Segmented Merchandising program, a major initiative launched in 2007 to optimize sales and shopper satisfaction.

Since deploying the JDA Space & Category Management solutions and implementing new and streamlined processes in more than 4,000 grocery stores, Coca-Cola Enterprises reports that it has achieved a 2 percent increase in both unit sales unit sales

Sales measured in terms of physical units rather than dollars. Unit sales data are often used by financial analysts when evaluating the health of a company.
 and dollar sales, and has significantly improved the quality, accuracy and consistency of the consumer-centric store-level planograms it delivers to retail customers. Coca-Cola Enterprises' planogram generation process has also improved significantly - instead of taking a few days to create a single planogram, users can create one in just five to 20 minutes.

"Implementing JDA Software JDA Software Group, Inc. is a demand and supply chain partner to the world’s leading retailers, manufacturers and suppliers and is located in Scottsdale, AZ. History
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 view of demand," Eichman said. "Given the expanded variety in beverage consumption and shopper demographics, determining the right beverages to carry for consumers needs to be done at the store level to improve sales and shopper satisfaction."

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, JDA Software senior vice president of manufacturing and wholesale distribution, said, "The solutions selected by Coca-Cola Enterprises proved to be ideal for streamlining its processes and achieving its performance goals. As a result, Coca-Cola Enterprises discovered what many JDA customers in the competitive beverage market have already experienced: that JDA's merchandising solutions can provide the powerful leverage needed to optimize space and category management, from the store level to the strategy level."

For more information about JDA Software's Space & Category Management solutions, visit www.jda.com.

About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA([R]) Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) is focused on helping companies realize real supply chain and revenue management results - fast. JDA Software delivers integrated merchandising as well as supply chain and revenue management planning, execution, and optimization solutions for the consumer-driven supply chain and services industries. Through its industry-leading solutions, leading manufacturers, distributors, retailers and services companies around the world are growing their businesses with greater predictability and more profitably. For more information on JDA Software, visit www.jda.com or contact us at info@jda.com or call +1.800.479.7382.

This press release contains forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

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 provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally accompanied by words such as "will," "ensure," "help," "can" and "expect" and other words with forward-looking connotations. In this press release, such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, Mr. Johnston's remarks that JDA's merchandising solutions can enable companies to improve space and category management. The occurrence of future events may involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: (a) our solutions may not perform exactly as we anticipate; (b) there may be implementation and integration problems associated with our solutions; and (c) other risks detailed from time to time in the "Risk Factors" section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 the uncertainty affecting our business is contained in our filings with the SEC. As a result of these and other risks, actual results may differ materially from those predicted. JDA is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

"JDA" is a trademark or registered trademark of JDA Software Group, Inc. Any trade, product or service name referenced in this document using the name "JDA" is a trademark and/or property of JDA Software Group, Inc.
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