The Cincinnati Zoo, one of the worlds oldest Zoological Parks, selects JDS Solutions WinRetail™ to manage its many shops.

CARLSBAD, California - May 15, 2002

World acclaimed Cincinnati Zoo and Event Network, Operators of the Zoo's Retail Shops, chooses WinRetail™ to Manage Retail Enterprise.

The JDS Solutions Corporation today announced that Event Network, operators of all Retail shops within the Cincinnati Zoo, licensed the JDS WinRetail™ Enterprise Management solution for the zoo's Retail group.

The Zoo chose JDS's WinRetail™ to manage both the back office and front end Point of Sale operations throughout its diverse organization. The Zoo also selected The JDS WinRetail™ Communications Manager to control all communications between the retail operation and the buying offices of Event Network in San Diego, CA. Event Network also contracted for The JDS Solutions Corporation's nationally acclaimed 24/7 Customer Support Service to handle all system related customer service requirements in the Zoo's retail operation.

About The Cincinnati Zoo
Since its founding in 1875, the Cincinnati Zoo has played a vital role in the life of Cincinnati and the surrounding region. The Zoo opened its doors on September 18, 1875, and was the second major zoological garden in the United States The Cincinnati Zoo's original managing organization, the Zoological Society of Cincinnati, was founded in 1873. The Zoo's founder, Andrew Erkenbrecher, was a German-born immigrant and animal lover who worked tirelessly to establish a zoological garden in Cincinnati. Because of his influence, the Cincinnati Zoo was largely patterned after the Frankfurt Zoo and other European zoos. The Cincinnati Zoo opened with 65 acres, the same as the Berlin Zoo, then the largest zoo in Europe. The Elephant House, opened in 1906 and patterned after similar exotic architecture at the Berlin Zoo, is today one of the most spectacular historic zoo buildings in the world. Since the 1890s, the Zoo has had close relationships with public and private schools. In recent years conservation education has played an ever-increasing role. Zoo education programs reach more than 120,000 students on Zoo grounds each year and more than 90,000 students are visited in their classrooms by Zoo naturalists and animals.