JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, announced today that Brico Dépôt has successfully completed the implementation of JDA® Space Planning, JDA® Intactix Knowledge Base and JDA® Web Publisher. A part of the £10 billion Kingfisher Group, the No. 1 do-it-yourself (DIY) and home improvement retailer in Europe, Brico Dépôt is a French chain of DIY and home improvement stores offering a wide range of renovation products, from building materials and tools to finished products such as windows, doors and other home fixtures.

The deployment of the JDA Space & Category Management solutions enables the retailer to successfully plan category and merchandise strategies, as well as maximize overall profitability per square foot across its more than 100 retail depots in France. As a result, Brico Dépôt has improved its in-store merchandising processes, increased productivity and streamlined the execution of top-level category plans to maintain its leadership position across Europe in the competitive DIY retail environment.

“Brico Dépôt relies on JDA’s Intactix Knowledge Base and Web Publisher solutions as tactical support to achieving its strategic objectives, including the development of precise planograms to each depot. With a dedicated portal to recommendations from Brico Dépôt’s headquarters, our company’s innovative concept and corporate brand at each depot is consistent and efficiently maintained,” said Médéric Payne, merchandising and commercial planning director, Brico Dépôt. “JDA’s proven Space & Category Management solutions help Brico Dépôt streamline merchandising execution to optimize space and category performance. These solutions play an important role in helping us to deliver more value to customers and improve returns to shareholders.”

Payne added, “With our expanding retail operations across Europe, we knew that JDA’s Space & Category Management solutions would help us to successfully translate merchandising strategy into tactics, drive consistent store execution of our corporate decisions, and lay the foundations for our future growth. I believe that utilizing JDA’s robust solutions will help Brico Dépôt to improve overall profitability as well as help us to achieve a completely integrated supply chain within the next few years.”

Brian Mort, JDA Software’s regional vice president, EMEA, commented, “To succeed in today’s competitive, consumer-driven market, retailers must accurately pinpoint consumer behavior and profitably satisfy demand. JDA’s Space & Category Management solutions help retail companies worldwide to achieve tangible benefits through merchandising optimization. We are delighted that Brico Dépôt has implemented JDA’s proven, industry-leading Space & Category Management solution suite to effectively plan, execute and analyze its demand-based category and assortment strategies. We look forward to helping Brico Dépôt drive overall profitability, maximize sales per selling area and satisfy customers through optimized strategic merchandising initiatives.”

Learn more about JDA’s Space Planning, Intactix Knowledge Base and Web Publisher solutions at JDAConnect 2010, October 18-20 in Amsterdam.

About Brico Dépôt

Founded in 1993 by Castorama Dubois Investment, €2.7 billion Brico Dépôt is a French chain of home improvement retail stores. Serving a large European clientele of do-it-yourselfers and professionals in the construction business, Brico Dépôt is present in 100 French cities and has 16 stores in Spain and six in Poland. With over 13,000 SKUs, the retailer offers a wide range of DIY and renovation products, from building materials and tools to finished products such as windows, doors and other home fixtures. For more information on Brico Dépôt, visit www.bricodepot.com/en/accueil.php.

About JDA Software Group, Inc.

JDA® Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JDAS), The Supply Chain Company®, is a leading provider of innovative supply chain management, merchandising and pricing excellence solutions. JDA empowers more than 6,000 companies of all sizes to make optimal decisions that improve profitability and achieve real results in the discrete and process manufacturing, wholesale distribution, transportation, retail and services industries. With an integrated solutions offering that spans the entire supply chain from materials to the consumer, JDA leverages the powerful heritage and knowledge capital of acquired market leaders including i2 Technologies®, Manugistics®, E3®, Intactix® and Arthur®. JDA’s multiple service options provide customers with flexible configurations, rapid time-to-value, lower total cost of ownership and 24/7 functional and technical support and expertise. To learn more about JDA Software, please visit www.jda.com, e-mail info@jda.com or follow JDASoftware on Twitter.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are generally accompanied by words such as “can,” “will,” “ensure,” “help,” “enable” and “expect” and other words with forward-looking connotations. In this press release, such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, comments and remarks that our Space & Category Management solutions will help our customers to achieve certain benefits. The occurrence of future events may involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to: (a) our solutions may not perform exactly as we anticipate; (b) there may be implementation and integration problems associated with our solutions; and (c) other risks detailed from time to time in the “Risk Factors” section of our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information relating to the uncertainty affecting our business is contained in our filings with the SEC. As a result of these and other risks, actual results may differ materially from those predicted. JDA is not under any obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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