MI9 Business Intelligence Systems Inc. is pleased to announce Danier Leather signed contracts for the MI9 Business Intelligence.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Danier Leather is a retailer of quality fashionable leather and suede outerwear, apparel and accessories. Since 1974, Danier Leather has cultivated a strong reputation centered on fashion, quality, value and the highest level of customer satisfaction. As an integrated designer, manufacturer, and retailer, Danier Leather is able to offer its customers high-quality, fashionable leather clothing and accessories at unmatched value. Danier Leather’s products are sold exclusively at its 96 shopping mall, street-front, and large format power centre stores or through its corporate sales division and online through its website, www.danier.com. The unique combination of manufacturing expertise, exceptional design and rigorous quality control allows Danier to produce leather and suede garments and accessories that are as affordable as they are fashion-forward.

MI9 Business Intelligence will provide a corporate repository for a wide range information from Danier’s existing store and host based systems, including their NSB merchandise management system, Great Plains financial accounting suite and Fujitsu point of sale systems. MI9 Business Intelligence will improve the speed and accuracy of delivery of critical management information to all parts of the business, utilizing the power and flexibility of the world-class MicroStrategy web reporting and analysis tools.

Danier will be implementing the standard BIS offering, which has an extensive library of over 500 preconfigured reports, designed specifically for retailers, and over four thousand pre-defined business performance metrics that will be used by Danier to analyze and monitor the performance of critical areas of the retail business. Including:

• Store performance versus plans, Comp store and peer group analysis
• Market basket analysis, Product affinity reporting
• Inventory service levels, under/overstock analysis, inventory balancing reports
• Merchandise performance against imported financial plans, Buyer performance
• Retail prices, Discounts, Overrides and Markdown analysis
• Sales Audit & Loss Prevention reporting
• Vendor performance reporting
• Associate performance monitoring
• Stock ledger data mining
• Full POS data analysis to transaction line level
• ARTS conformant IX Retail Electronic Journal

The new Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence system is scheduled to go live in May 2006, 90 days from contract signature. Danier will then join the growing ranks of major retailers world-wide, who are gaining business benefits every day from the MI9 Business Intelligence System.

If you would like further information about MI9 and our products for the retail industry, please contact me directly. Mike Burge (President MI9 Business Intelligence Systems Inc) Tel: 416.491.1483 / mburge@mi9retail.com.