AL Systems Powers 2 Retailers Into the Apparel Top 10

Five of Apparel "Top 50" Count on AL Systems

Rockaway, NJ – August 29, 2006 – AL Systems, Inc., the leading supplier of software solutions for improving distribution, announces that 10% of the "Top 50" apparel companies, including 20% of the "Top 10", count on AL Systems. Apparel magazine’s (http://www.apparelmag.com) "Top 50" is a ranking by profit margin of U.S. publicly traded apparel companies with greater than $100m in annual sales. Five companies on this prestigious list – and two of the top 10 – have selected software solutions from AL Systems to reduce costs and improve distribution operations. The firms include Urban Outfitters (#5), Pacific Sunwear (#9), Talbots (#35) and Gymboree (#37).

"We have a long and successful track record in the apparel industry, helping leading companies increase profitability by improving order fulfillment productivity and accuracy," says Paul Lightfoot, CEO of AL Systems, Inc. "We are pleased to see our clients publicly recognized as leaders; their success is how we measure our success."

Urban Outfitters, a leading global retailer and wholesaler offering lifestyle-oriented merchandise, uses AL Systems paperless putting solutions in its distribution centers to improve the productivity and accuracy of split case order fulfillment. AL Systems also provides Urban Outfitters with solutions for productive and accurate auditing, sortation, cross docking and manifesting. Urban Outfitters has relied on solutions from AL Systems for more than ten years, through exponential and continuous growth, to improve the flow of merchandise and to increase the productivity and accuracy of order fulfillment operations.

At Gymboree, AL Systems provides software to productively and accurately direct a high-speed unit sortation solution for e-commerce (direct) fulfillment. Pacific Sunwear and Talbots rely on light-directing putting solutions from AL Systems for store-bound split case fulfillment. Under Armour recently selected AL Systems to help improve their fast-growing distribution operations.

About AL Systems, Inc.
AL Systems provides clients with integrated supply chain software solutions that improve the flow of merchandise through distribution centers. AL Systems solutions include paperless picking, packing and putting; cross-docking, in-motion manifesting; RFID; high-volume manifesting; automated print & apply solutions; and automated sortation and conveyor control (WCS). We help our clients reduce order fulfillment costs and distribute goods faster and more accurately. Clients of AL Systems include Pacific Sunwear, Gymboree, Simon & Schuster, 3M Pharmaceuticals, Kohl's Department Stores, Mervyn's, REI, Talbots, Men's Wearhouse and Urban Outfitters. AL Systems, in its fourth consecutive year of profitable growth, has been helping clients improve distribution operations for more than 25 years. For more information, visit www.alsystemsinc.com.