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Customer Profile - Golub - Price Chopper

A Long History
In 1900, Lewis Golub, a Russian immigrant, came to America. He settled in Schenectady, NY. Shortly before his death in 1930, Lewis Golub merged his company with one owned by Joseph Grosberg so his sons, Bernard and William would be part of a larger, stronger firm.

In 1937, Bill and Ben Golub met with other supermarket leaders and forged a national association, now called the Food Marketing Institute (FMI). From 1990 to 1998 Price Chopper doubled its number of stores through buyouts in Vermont, more in Pennsylvania and Worcester, MA and the first store in Connecticut, making the number of stores reach over one hundred.

Price Chopper now owns and operates 110 stores in New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont and Pennsylvania. Golub’s over 20,000 employees collectively own 55% of the company’s privately held stock.

Although Bernard Golub died in 1972 and Bill Golub passed away in 1992, a new generation of Golub's shape the corporation's destiny. Lewis, Bernard's son, and Neil, William's son, learned the business from their fathers. Today, Lewis Golub serves as Chairman of the Board, while Neil Golub serves as President and Chief Executive Officer.

During the last few years, Price Chopper has applied information technology (IT) very aggressively, particularly to its Point of Sale (POS) operations. Price Chopper uses TMS-2000 and SmartDock software from BGI.

Tech Talk - .NET Report Viewer
BGI has released the production version of our .NET Report Viewer. This product allows you to run any TMS-2000 or SmartDock report from any place with Internet access to the database. Reports are saved on your local PC for later viewing and analysis. Reports can be produced in Rich Text, CSV, PDF and Excel spreadsheet formats. Saved reports can be emailed or faxed from the Viewer on your PC. The Viewer can be used on a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) or the Internet.

The advantage to local LAN/WAN use is that report requests run in the background eliminating wait times from within TMS-2000 or SmartDock. Call Peter Rappe or Tom Walton for more information.

More Tech Talk...
Some TMS-2000 customers using SQL Server, have reported minor issues which are caused by not having the current version of Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) running on their local client PC's. To verify that your PC is running the current version of MDAC, in TMS-2000, select Help/Tech Info. In the upper right hand corner, within the Operating System Information group box, the following information should exist:
     DB PLATFORM: SQLSERVER; MDAC 2.8(2.81.117.6)
If your version is different than this, please contact us at support@bgiweb.com. This can most easily be done by selecting the Email button on the Diagnostics page.

BGI Web Services
BGI Web Services is an Internet communications module that enhances carrier dispatching from TMS-2000. It supports carrier web tendering, confirmation of load receipt, pick up confirmations at the vendor, and progressive dispatch where multiple carriers can be prioritized and assigned to a load. Web services volume has grown dramatically year to date with 56 users booking 45,550 loads.

SmartDock
BGI has been experiencing exponential growth with our Dock Scheduling application - SmartDock. Fueled by new Bio-Terrorism rules that take effect in December 2005, many prospects are finding that SmartDock is the missing link in the new "chain of custody" tracking requirements. If you would like to request additional information about SmartDock or to schedule an on-line demonstration please click here

New Clients:
J. Kings, Defense CEETA, American Tire Distributors, US Foodservice - Dallas

BGI has a new web site, URL, and logos.
Check it out at www.bgiweb.com. The old URL was www.bgint.com. Any hits to that site will automatically be redirected to the new site URL. (URL is web-speak for Universal Resource Locator.) You'll also notice with the new domain, bgiweb.com, that our email addresses have also changed. For example, support@bgiweb.com is now support@bgiweb.com. While the old addresses still work, it would be best to update your email address book with these changes.

Conferences BGI will attend in 2005:
Retalix Customer Conference - Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Dallas, September 18 - 20
UniPro Logistics and Operations Conference - Renaissance Hotel, Las Vegas, September 22 - 24
UniPro Fall Purchasing Conference - Dallas TX - Wyndham Anatole Hotel, Oct 16 - 19
FMI Productivity Conference - Orlando, Florida - Gaylord Palms Hotel, Oct 23 - 25

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Links:
FMI's Customer Pick-Up/Backhaul Fairness Statement

Bio-Terrorism Link - This Fact Sheet addresses the FDA Issued Final Rule on the Establishment and Maintenance of Records to Enhance the Security of the U.S. Food Supply Under the Bio-Terrorism Act of 2002. SmartDock provides "Chain of Custody" tracking to satisfy record maintenance and reporting requirements.

BGI Contacts: (Note: Our domain has changed from bgint.com to bgiweb.com)
Peter Rappe, 913-829-7900 prappe@bgiweb.com
Tom Walton, 913-829-7900 twalton@bgiweb.com
Support, 913-829-7900 support@bgiweb.com
Sales, 913-829-7900 sales@bgiweb.com

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