Coed Sportswear Drives Global Brand Execution with QRS Solutions

RICHMOND, CA – July 28, 2004 – QRS Corporation (Nasdaq: QRSI) today announced that Coed Sportswear, Inc., a leading manufacturer of lifestyle statement imprinted apparel, has signed a contract renewal to continue using QRS Managed EC™ to facilitate communications with its substantial trading partner community. Coed Sportswear, a longtime QRS customer, also uses QRS Catalogue™ to meet its data synchronization needs.

With its commitment to "no minimum" orders and 24-hour shipping, Coed has established itself as a customer-focused supplier in the industry. To maintain its high customer service levels, Coed relies on systems and processes that ensure the accurate flow of information across the supply chain. Coed uses QRS solutions for electronic communications among its 8,000-member trading partner community.

QRS Managed EC enables suppliers to outsource their EDI communications and transact electronically regardless of their technology infrastructure, making possible "any-to-any" transactions and communications. QRS Managed EC levels the technical playing field for trading partners – allowing any size supplier to transact with any size retailer.

"Coed prides itself on being the most desirable company to do business with in the imprinted apparel industry," said Mark Lane, president and owner of Coed Sportswear, Inc. "Partnering with QRS enables us to work with our national department store and sports retailer partners efficiently and cost-effectively."

"QRS solutions enable companies like Coed to work with trading partners of all sizes, while simultaneously increasing the accuracy of product information," said Ray Rike, QRS' Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. "We value our relationship with longtime customers such as Coed Sportswear, who are using QRS solutions to achieve data synchronization to drive global brand execution."

About Coed Sportswear, Inc.

Founded in 1990, Coed Sportswear, Inc. is America's leading manufacturer of lifestyle statement imprinted apparel. For the past 11 years, Coed has provided retailers of all sizes a wide variety of creative T-shirt graphics on quality garments for both the adult and youth markets.

About QRS Managed EC™

QRS Managed EC™ is a retail service bureau that provides electronic communication and business document exchange solutions. QRS Managed EC is an EDI-to-fax/email translation service that eliminates the need for hardware, software or additional staff. QRS Managed EC can also generate UCC128 shipping labels and GTIN and non-GTIN bar-coded price tickets.

About QRS Catalogue™

QRS Catalogue™ is the North American retail industry's leading product data synchronization application. With over 100 million unique items, QRS Catalogue enables more than 3,500* marketers, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers to share the latest product information with 550 total product attributes including price, style, color and size. QRS Catalogue offers a complete solution for item setup and synchronization, and supports the latest EAN.UCC System global standards initiatives. QRS is a UCC-certified Solution Partner for UCCnet™ services. By automating business processes such as item setup and maintenance and product marketing content management, QRS Catalogue helps customers achieve increased revenue and greater productivity.

About QRS

QRS (Nasdaq: QRSI) is a technology company that serves the global retail trading community. We offer collaborative commerce solutions that drive a new standard for global brand execution. At QRS, we manage the flow of critical commerce information and leverage our retail technology expertise to address fundamental industry challenges such as global data synchronization, mandate compliance, transaction management and global trade management. QRS solutions help approximately 9,800* customers expand into new markets and channels, improve operational efficiency and differentiate their brand.

*Based on total, unique QRS corporate customers that purchased or licensed QRS products and services between June 30, 2003 and July 1, 2004.


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