PARIS – October 22, 2002 – QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI), a leading provider of collaborative commerce solutions for the extended supply chain, announced today it will participate at the Gencod EAN France conference "EANnet.fr: les catalogues electroniques se mettent en reseau" on October 22, 2002 at the Hotel Meriden Etoile in Paris, where it will present QRS Catalogue™, a product content and data synchronization solution that enables retailers and their trading partners to reduce cycle times and decrease costs across the supply chain.

Gencod EAN France, the French member organization of EAN International (European Article Numbering) launched Gencod EANnet.fr to support the standardization of product information and encourage its members, retailers and their trading partners, to take advantage of those standards to make their supply chains more efficient and effective.

Supporting the EANnet.fr initiative, QRS Catalogue is a large database of product content for the retail industry. Containing more than 88 million EANs/UPCs, QRS Catalogue enables retailers and their suppliers – including Selfridges plc, Chanel, LVMH, Clarins USA and Escada – to synchronize product and pricing information and images via a secure network across all business processes. By using the QRS Catalogue, retailers and vendors can reduce operating costs, improve margins and improve inventories through the sharing of accurate data in real time.

About QRS

With headquarters in Richmond California and operations in France, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, 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; real-time, synchronized transaction delivery; and Web-enabled sourcing and procurement. 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, Saks Inc., 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.