European Retailer HEMA Selects JDA Category Management Solutions

JDA solutions chosen to help improve shelf-level planning and increase shopper satisfaction

Scottsdale, Ariz. – February 23, 2011 – JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS) today announced that HEMA, a leading European retailer based in the Netherlands, has selected a number of space planning solutions from the JDA Category Management suite, including JDA® Space Planning, JDA® Space Automation, JDA® Intactix Knowledge Base and JDA® Planogram Generator to help improve shelf-level planning and increase shopper satisfaction.

HEMA is an international retail organization with more than 550 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany. Customer-friendly and with a unique profile, HEMA distinguishes itself from other general merchandise retailers by selling its own line of fashionable private-label products.

HEMA selected JDA space planning solutions to help rationalize its store layouts, automate its merchandising based on pre-defined policies, differentiate assortments based on local preferences and better anticipate consumer demand.

“HEMA has already established itself as an innovative, forward-looking retailer,” said Razat Gaurav, senior vice president, EMEA, JDA Software. “By implementing JDA Category Management solutions, HEMA will be able to leverage consumer insights and local needs to create targeted assortments and displays. Any retailer that serves such a diverse market — spanning multiple countries or consumer segments — can benefit from an approach that rationalizes, and responds to, diverse shopper preferences. We’re pleased to partner with HEMA in taking its success to the next level.”

About HEMA
Headquartered in Amsterdam, HEMA is a general merchandise retailer with more than 550 stores in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Germany that sell its unique line of private-label products. HEMA employs approximately 10,000 people in its corporate headquarters, bakery, distribution center and retail stores.

About JDA Software Group
JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, is the leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions worldwide. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s multiple service options, delivered via the JDA® Private Cloud, provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise.  To learn more, visit www.jda.com or e-mail info@jda.com.

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