MATTHEWS, N.C., April 3, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FDO) today announced that TradeStone Software has been named IT Strategic Partner of the Year at the Company's Annual IT Strategic Partner Summit. Joshua Jewett, Family Dollar Senior Vice President, Information Technology and Procurement, CIO presented the award to TradeStone Software CEO Sue Welch.
"TradeStone exhibited the four key attributes we define in a strategic partner," said Mr. Jewett. "Throughout the project, TradeStone exemplified great customer service, innovation, and teamwork. Through innovation and collaboration this partnership truly helped to deliver exceptional results."
This sentiment was echoed by the leader of the business team utilizing the TradeStone Software Merchandise Lifecycle Management suite, Family Dollar Senior Vice President of Global Sourcing, Kevin Boyanowski: "Throughout the implementation life cycle, and beyond TradeStone has demonstrated all the skills, sensitivities, insights and passion to enable us to achieve our application and business process goals – enabling Family Dollar to establish an incredibly strong foundation for the Global Sourcing process."
"Family Dollar has really been a dream partner," said Sue Welch, CEO, TradeStone Software. "They have taken our industry model and quickly determined how they could best rapidly implement it to bring value to their processes and help them grow their business. We are proud to share in their success and look forward to continuing to provide them value and results!"
The IT Strategic Partner of the Year award is designed to recognize exceptional partnerships in the categories of Vendor Commitment, Innovative Excellence, Outstanding Achievement and Benefits Realization. TradeStone was one of four finalists for Partner of Year along with Forsythe, IBM and DBS & Instream.
About Family Dollar
Beginning with one store in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1959, the Company currently operates more than 7,000 stores in 45 states. Family Dollar Stores, Inc., a Fortune 300 company, is based in Matthews, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte and is a publicly held company with common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FDO. For more information, please visit www.familydollar.com.
About TradeStone Software
TradeStone Software helps retailers, brand manufacturers and suppliers increase market share and improve margins through the use of Merchandise Lifecycle Management solutions that unify the design, sourcing, ordering and delivery of their private label and branded goods. Organizations including American Eagle Outfitters, Belk, Boots, Family Dollar, Groupe Dynamite, Guitar Center, Kohl's, Le Chateau, Macy's, NBrown Catalog Company, Pacific Sunwear, Shoprite, Urban Outfitters and Wilkinson use TradeStone's solutions to help them bring innovative and highly profitable products to market at record speeds.
TradeStone Software is headquartered in Gloucester, Mass., with offices in Atlanta, Bangalore, Hong Kong and London. More information can be found on the Web at www.tradestonesoftware.com.