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Bob's Stores Transforms its Store Communications with Opterus Store Ops-Center

Toronto, Ontario - January 4, 2010 - Opterus Inc. today announced that Bob's Stores, a retail chain that offers great values on family clothing and footwear, will implement Opterus Store Ops-Center. Bob's Stores will deploy Store Ops-Center to all 34 locations located in the U.S.

"We are very excited about the Opterus solution because of the enhanced functionality that it provides when compared to our previous system. There are a number of significant functional improvements that Opterus provides. The biggest improvement for us is the mobile functionality that allows our field management to stay updated on new messages, tasks and issues that are assigned to the stores," said Kevin Campbell, AVP Store Operations, Bob's Stores. "More importantly, the Opterus team has been extremely responsive throughout the entire process. Store Ops-Center has met and exceeded our expectations."

Opterus is a proven store communications and task management portal for retailers who want to efficiently and effectively communicate with their stores. Offered as a software as a service (SaaS) model, Opterus can be easily and quickly deployed, allowing retailers to start realizing improved efficiencies and cost benefits as soon as the solution is deployed. Opterus Store Ops-Center provides a very high return on investment through significant labor hour savings, improved revenue generation, and other strategic enterprise productivity and efficiency benefits.

"We are very excited to welcome Bob's Stores to the growing list of Opterus clients," said Ron Blackwelder, vice president of sales and marketing, Opterus Inc. "Because of their previous experience with task management, Bob's Stores recognized immediately that Opterus provided the enhanced functionality they required. We look forward to working with Bob's Stores and leveraging their commitment to improving communications between their retail operations team and head office."

For more information about Opterus, please contact Ron Blackwelder, VP sales and marketing, at 704-257-1020 or by email at ron.blackwelder@opterus.com.

About Bob's Stores
Bob's Stores Corp., based in Meriden, CT, was founded in 1954 and operates 34 stores in the United States, offering great value in casual clothing, activewear, footwear, workwear, and teamwear.

About Opterus
Opterus Inc. is a leading provider of a cost-effective, easy-to-implement store information and execution management solution that increases productivity and improves retail enterprise communications. Opterus Store Ops-Center software is an on-demand, web-based retail portal designed to communicate corporate policy and day-to-day objectives between corporate office and store locations. This solution is specifically designed for retail operations, and provides store personnel with clear, concise and timely direction, along with the proper tools to best do their jobs to support corporate initiatives. Opterus is based in Toronto, Ontario and was founded in 2006 by a group of seasoned retail industry technology veterans. For additional information about Opterus, please visit www.opterus.com.

Media Contact:
Janet Hawkins, President
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Catherine Seeds
Ketner Group PR + Marketing (for Opterus)
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