Outsourced Logistics

Weber Distribution, a leading third party logistics and supply chain management provider, announced that it has signed a multi-year contract with The Vitamin Shoppe (NYSE: VSI), a leading specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products, to warehouse and distribute many of their top volume items throughout the Western United States.

Weber currently handles weekly shipments of vitamins and nutritional supplements to replenish approximately 100 Vitamin Shoppe stores located throughout the entire Western region including Hawaii. Weber is performing a high volume pick and pack operation, which is extremely time sensitive on adherence to expiration dates. The entire process is radio frequency based in order to provide real time access to the latest fulfillment activities and reporting through Weber’s web portal.

At its 303,000 square foot food-grade facility in Fontana, California, Weber receives product directly from many of the 700 Vitamin Shoppe vendors. Vitamin Shoppe’s product lines include vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, herbs, sports nutrition formulas, homeopathic remedies, green living products, as well as health and beauty aids.

“We selected Weber because of their prominent position as a regional distribution and fulfillment provider in the Western United States,” said Rich Tannenbaum, vice president supply chain for The Vitamin Shoppe. “They have ample capacity to handle The Vitamin Shoppe’s current and future business requirements as the company grows and expands, and they have a highly experienced management team who is familiar with The Vitamin Shoppe operations and our pick and pack requirements. Weber offers a technology platform to give us the visibility we need to run our supply chain.”

In addition to distribution and inventory control services, Weber has equipped the facility with a customized quality control room where personnel from Vitamin Shoppe can perform quality processes and sampling of products to ensure all shipments meet Vitamin Shoppe’s high standards.

According to Bill Butler, Weber’s president and CEO, communication between VSI and Weber was excellent during the implementation process and many levels of relationships have been developed throughout the entire supply chain. “The Vitamin Shoppe’s supply chain team and senior management are very impressive and we have enjoyed the working relationship. We are also thrilled to support Vitamin Shoppe’s on-going business expansion,” said Butler. “Vitamin Shoppe fits perfectly into our specialty retail focus. We are excited to not only meet, but exceed their distribution expectations in the coming months and years.”

About Vitamin Shoppe Industries, Inc.

Vitamin Shoppe (NYSE: VSI) is a leading specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products based in North Bergen, New Jersey. The company sells vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements, herbs, sports nutrition formulas, homeopathic remedies, green living products, and health and beauty aids to customers located primarily in the United States. The company carries national brand products as well as exclusive products under the Vitamin Shoppe, BodyTech, MD Select, and VS Basics proprietary brands. The Vitamin Shoppe conducts business through more than 450 company-owned retail stores, national mail order catalogs, and websites, www.VitaminShoppe.com, and www.EcoShoppe.com and has a social community site at www.VSconnect.com.

About Weber Distribution

Weber Distribution has evolved into a nationwide provider of logistics solutions. Weber’s expertise includes non-asset freight management, temperature sensitive asset-based LTL and TL services, dedicated and shared warehousing, distribution, cross-docking/pool distribution, transloading, network optimization modeling and analysis, retail compliance, order fulfillment, material handling, supply chain management, real estate development, and personnel staffing. Weber specializes in providing its clients with unique innovative logistics solutions primarily to these vertical markets:

 Retailers/Importers

 Food & Beverage/CPG

 Chemical/Specialty Products

 Confectionary

Weber serves many well-known and respected companies such as Walmart, Target, Safeway, General Mills, Hershey, Nestlé, Spectrum Brands, California Innovations, Scholastic Books, and PPG Industries. As a result of its on-going innovation, experience and dedication, Weber has been the recipient of numerous industry awards, including:

 100 Great Supply Chain Partners

 Inbound Logistics’ Top 100 3PLs

 Logistics Management’s Top 50 3PLs

 The Los Angeles Business Journal’s Top 100 Privately-Held Companies

 Food Logistics Magazine’s Top 70 3PLs

 Food Logistics Magazine’s FL100 listing of the top technology solution and service providers to the food industry.

Ocean World Lines Promotes New Vice President OWL Asia

Opens new offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Qingdao

Ocean World Lines (OWL), a global door-to-door and end-to-end NVOCC, announced today that it has promoted Eric Seamon to the position of vice president OWL Asia, effective immediately.

Seamon brings more than 20 years of industry experience to the newly created position as OWL expands its presence in the region with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Qingdao. Seamon is responsible for overseeing operations, sales, marketing, finance, human resources and further expansion for all offices and services within the Asia Pacific region. In the first quarter of 2011, OWL will have new offices in Ningbo, Xiamen, and Shenzhen. OWL will continue to expand throughout China and the Far East with plans to open offices in Dalian, Tianjin, Korea, Vietnam, Philippines and Bangladesh by the end of 2011.

Seamon previously worked as OWL’s regional vice president, Asia Pacific. Prior to OWL, Seamon was with Manalytics International as their senior supply chain consultant for retail and 3PL. He was responsible for strategic sales planning, project design, and research with a heavy focus on network redesign and Asia optimization.

He held several positions for UPS Supply Chain Solutions, including director of product development for their Cargo Management services based in Atlanta, Georgia and director of business development and marketing, Asia Pacific. As director of marketing and business development, Seamon earned multiple promotions and reorganized the Asia business development unit with a focus on trade lane specific sales, product education, data management and marketing. As regional director, Great Lakes region, he increased the region’s net profit by 128%.

Seamon also worked for Fritz Companies (prior to the acquisition of UPS) as trade-lane director, Transpacific trade; global account manager, consolidated services; solutions manager, consolidated services; and inbound transportation manager. He was named a member of the North America operating committee at Fritz Companies’ in May of 2000.

“We have been known as a large North American export NVOCC, but over the last few years we have built a very strong transpacific eastbound business. Eric’s intimate knowledge of the Asia market and in-depth product knowledge is helping us to put the best and brightest young managers in place and attract the most loyal staff, customers, and suppliers within those markets,” said Alan Baer, OWL’s president. “We now offer our shippers more sophisticated and higher value technology by creating a global customer service platform throughout Asia – just like we have been offering in North America and Europe.”

“On top of our geographic expansion in Asia, we have improved our service portfolio and built out OWL AIR and OWL Cargo Management, our air freight forwarding operations and origin PO and consolidation services,” said Baer. “We always felt that we had the best visibility and alerting tool in the business and now we have an end-to-end service offering to feed it.”

Ocean World Lines, known in the industry by its iconic owl logo, is one of the largest fully bonded NVOCC’s in the world. OWL maintains more than 45 service contracts with the top ocean carriers and handles today’s most complex global supply chain requirements.

Founded in 1979, OWL works with importers, exporters and freight forwarders to move all types of cargo and provide global door-to-door/end-to-end service. OWL offers a single source experience for its customers coupled with leading-edge technology for a truly value-based solution.

With over 200 employees worldwide, OWL has offices located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Qingdao, Singapore, Tokyo, Atlanta, Charleston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Long Beach, Miami, New Orleans, New York, Norfolk, San Francisco, Seattle, Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, and Ipswich, as well as a network of agents worldwide.

OWL is a subsidiary of Pacer International, a leading North American freight transportation and logistics service provider that offers a broad array of services to facilitate the movement of freight from origin to destination.

Revenue increases 42 percent on quarter-over-quarter and 32 percent year-over-year basis, driven by strong software license revenue growth and new customer acquisitions

LONG BEACH, CA – (August 4, 2010) – Apriso®, a leading provider of manufacturing software solutions to achieve and sustain operational excellence, today announced revenue growth has accelerated in the second quarter of 2010. Total revenue grew 42 percent on a quarter-over-quarter basis and 32 percent year-over-year basis. Software license revenue more than doubled on a year-over-year basis; growth was driven by existing customers expanding their FlexNet® solutions and by four new customers selecting Apriso as their provider for enterprise manufacturing operations management.

“The growth of our software license revenue is indicative of the substantial value Apriso is delivering global manufacturers as they look for scalable enterprise solutions to drive continuous improvement, realize higher quality, while reducing their IT and manufacturing costs,” stated Jim Henderson, president and CEO of Apriso. “Along with adding to new customers and markets, our existing customers continue to expand their Apriso footprints, contributing to our expansion in 2010 and their improved manufacturing operational excellence.”

Customer Activity

A total 23 customer sites have gone live in the first half of 2010 with new FlexNet® applications, reflecting Apriso’s continued global expansion, with live sites now in Lithuania and Romania. Cleantech continues to be a strong focus in the second quarter, with the announcement that Boston Power selected Apriso’s FlexNet as their enterprise Manufacturing Execution System. In addition, a high profile electric car manufacturer selected Apriso as their foundation for manufacturing operations management. During the quarter, software and services were implemented at manufacturers in the consumer goods, packaging, aerospace &defense, life sciences and industrial equipment industries.

Product Updates

In June, Apriso announced availability of FlexNet 9.5, one of the company’s most extensive software upgrades ever completed. This new version of FlexNet has redefined manufacturing Business Process Management (BPM) by offering advanced blueprinting and prototyping capabilities to support an agile approach to implementation and continuous improvement of manufacturing processes. New user interfaces enable greater productivity and flexibility. An extended partnership with Predisys delivers an improved, integrated architecture to harness the power of Statistical Process Control (SPC) across multiple plants and across end-to-end manufacturing processes.

Awards

Apriso was selected by Inbound Logistics Magazine as a top logistics provider, based on Apriso’s ability to drive supply chain excellence by synchronizing material flows with production for greater flexibility, ROI and ease of implementation.

About Apriso

Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling manufacturers to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events by supporting continuous improvement on a global scale. Apriso’s FlexNet is a BPM platform-based solution for global manufacturing operations management that delivers visibility into, control over and synchronization across manufacturing and the product supply network. Apriso serves 180+ customers in 40+ countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Its customers include General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, L’Oréal, Trixell, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor. For more information, please go to www.apriso.com.

Apriso and FlexNet are registered trademarks of Apriso Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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