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About Trade Promotion Management Associates (TPMA)
The Trade Promotion Management Associates is a non-profit trade association for professionals and organizations involved with trade promotion. TPMA provides members with information, education, and research on the dynamic world of trade promotion, including co-op advertising, market development funds, slotting fees, off-invoice deductions, channel promotions, and more.
Visit the TPMA website at www.tradepromo.org

About Blacks Retail Analysis
Blacks Retail Analysis provides professional retail services and information for the luxury apparel and fine jewelry markets. Our industry analysts draw on over 30 years of experience to help clients increase margins, manage change, and keep on the cutting edge of market trends.

Our services include business plan development, management consulting, market research, trend forecasting, and technology implementation. Knowledge is power. That's why we also provide our clients with up-to-the-minute industry news through our analyst blogs and email newsletters. We use information, technology and experience to help our clients increase profitability and better manage their business. At Blacks, we aren't just fashion forward, we are retail forward.
Visit the Blacks Retail Analysis website at blacksretailanalysis.com

About Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and Internet technologies. In today's high-stakes marketplace, retailers need as much knowledge about customer buying patterns as possible. The deeper your insight into historical data, the better you can analyze, report on, and forecast future sales and profits. Microsoft SQL Server 2005—the next generation of Microsoft data management and analysis software—delivers a multitude of new and enhanced business intelligence features designed to give retail businesses that deeper insight—and with it, competitive advantage
Visit the Microsoft website at www.microsoft.com

About the National Retail Federation
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 1.4 million U.S. retail establishments, more than 23 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2005 sales of $4.4 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents more than 100 state, national, and international retail associations.
Visit the National Retail Federation website at www.nrf.com

About Katzscan
Katzscan provides professional services on the implementation and integration barcode labeling, RFID tagging, and Electronic Data Interchange technologies to comply with supply chain vendor compliance requirements, allowing suppliers to successfully sell to trading partners and minimize chargebacks for non-compliance. For organizations looking to bring efficiencies to their own downstream supply chains, Katzscan helps implement and integrate these technologies and define vendor requirements and metrics.

Combining business operations knowledge and technical skills with fraud-fighting credentials and experiences, Katzscan can analyze where fraud may exist in an organization’s (internal & external) supply chain and recommend & implement detection and reduction solutions, both organizational and technological. Applicable to public companies and government agencies, and a benefit to private enterprises, this analysis is performed using the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance frameworks COSO and COBIT as guidelines, and can be used as a pre-assessment to an audit.
Visit the Katzscan website at www.Katzscan.com