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March 6, 2008

ARTS Announces New Members Including Tesco, Nike, Carrefour and REI

For Immediate Release
Contact Kathy Grannis or Ellen Davis (202) 783-7971
grannisk@nrf.com or davise@nrf.com

ARTS Announces New Members Including Tesco, Nike, Carrefour, and REI

Washington, March 6, 2008 – The Association for Retail Technology Standards, the technology standards division of the National Retail Federation, today announced their membership base now exceeds 200 organizations from 22 countries. As a retailer-driven membership organization, ARTS is dedicated to creating an open environment where both retailers and technology vendors work together to create international retail technology standards. Ultimately, these standards reduce the costs associated with investment in retail technology.

Leading retailers who recently joined ARTS include: Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer and one of the world’s leading international retailers; Carrefour, the second largest retailer in the world and the largest in Europe, spanning four main grocery store formats: hypermarkets, supermarkets, hard discount stores and convenience stores; IKEA, a company founded in Sweden in 1943 which offers home furnishings and accessories of good design and function at low prices; JCPenney, one of America's leading retailers with the largest apparel and home furnishing sites on the Internet; and Kroger, one of the largest U.S. retail grocery chains, headquartered in Cincinnati.

“ARTS is delighted to welcome these top retail companies to our membership as we work to develop retail technology standards to facilitate IT support of the business,” said ARTS Executive Director Richard Mader. “These new members join an already stellar list and their participation will enhance the effectiveness of ARTS standards in support of industry best practices.”

Other prominent members to join ARTS include: Myer, a market leader in Australian retailing operating 60 stores with more than 20,000 employees; NEC, a Japanese multinational IT company that provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government; Nike, the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes, apparel and sports equipment; and REI, a national outdoor retail co-op dedicated to inspiring, educating and outfitting its members and the community for a lifetime of outdoor adventure and stewardship.

The Association for Retail Technology Standards is an international membership organization dedicated to reducing the costs of technology through standards. Since 1993, ARTS has been delivering application standards exclusively to the retail industry. ARTS has four standards: The Standard Relational Data Model, the Standard Request for Proposals, UnifiedPOS and ARTS-XML. Membership is open to all members of the international technology community—retailers from all industry segments, application developers and hardware companies.

The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores, chain restaurants, drug stores and grocery stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.6 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 24 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2007 sales of $4.5 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national and international retail associations. www.nrf.com

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