LONDON – October 01, 2002 – QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI), a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions for the extended supply chain, today announced the QRS/Selfridges Global Data Synchronisation Conference to be held October 3, 2002, at the London Marriott, Grosvenor Square, in London, England. QRS and Selfridges, one of the top department store groups in Europe, will introduce an electronic commerce programme that will enable Selfridges' trading partners to automate business processes, increase revenues and decrease costs across their entire supply chain.

At this conference, retail suppliers will hear how global companies – such as Clarins, LVMH, Jones Apparel Group and Escada – have synchronised product and price information via a secure network with their North American retail trading partners using QRS Catalogue™, the global retail industry's largest database of product content. They will hear from Selfridges about its current programme to enhance collaboration with its suppliers using QRS Catalogue to improve item set-up and maintenance, simplify purchase order and invoice creation, and accelerate shipping and receiving processes. Attendees will also hear from Tim Mister, the European IT Partner for Kurt Salmon Europe, the leading retail consultancy, who will discuss the benefits of collaborative supply chains and data synchronisation from a global and strategic perspective.

"With product content becoming increasingly standardised in Europe, the timing could not be more perfect for retailers and their trading partners to take advantage of the benefits an electronic catalogue solution has to offer," said Shak Akhtar, QRS vice president of international sales and operations. "We are very pleased to be working with Selfridges and its distinguished trading community of suppliers, enabling them to streamline their supply chain and improve business performance through the use of QRS Catalogue."

QRS Catalogue is a centralised source of product information that is key to efficient and profitable business for both suppliers and retailers. It provides value across all categories of retail merchandise, including apparel, consumer packaged goods, hardlines and other general merchandise. Currently, more than 3,500 companies worldwide use QRS Catalogue to synchronise product information for more than 88 million UPCs/EANs to cut procurement-cycle times, better manage inventory and reduce product time to market.

With operations in Europe and North America, QRS provides professional services, trading partner enablement, community management and around-the-clock customer support in multiple languages through its QRS Global Services group.

About Selfridges, plc

Selfridges is a leading UK department store group that offers customers an extensive range of quality branded fashion and home merchandise, including top-name clothing, house wares and other home furnishings. Situated within a distinguished and spacious setting, the Selfridges food hall and array of attractive restaurants, bars and cafes complete the ultimate shopping experience.

Currently Selfridges has stores in London and Manchester, England, and will be opening a Birmingham store in Autumn 2003; Selfridges also plans to open another five to six stores in major UK conurbations within the next five years. The flagship London store, Selfridges Oxford Street, was established in 1909 and is currently the second largest department store within the UK, with more than 540,000 square feet of retailing space.

About QRS

QRS (Nasdaq: QRSI) has been building, automating and managing retail trading relationships through innovative software applications and services since 1988. Today, QRS is an established leader in providing collaborative commerce solutions for the extended supply chain. QRS offers scalable trading community connectivity, reliable product content management, Web-enabled sourcing and real-time, synchronised transaction delivery. QRS solutions are used by more than 8,000 retail industry customers* representing the world's top retailers, vendors and manufacturers, including Federated Department Stores Inc., Selfridges plc, Sears, Roebuck and Co., LVMH LLC, Group Clarins USA and Jones Apparel Group Inc. With QRS adaptive commerce solutions, retail industry customers can transform their extended supply chain in response to marketplace dynamics, drive process efficiency and achieve superior profit. Learn more about QRS Corporation at www.qrs.com.

*Based on total, unique QRS corporate customers that purchased or licensed QRS products and services between April 2001 and May 2002.