Oxford Industries, Inc. (NYSE: OXM) is upgrading its Oxford Products (International) Ltd. subsidiary’s systems to MAE 7.0. Oxford Products has been running its business on Parellax e-trade, an older Parellax product, since 1999. This has been a successful partnership for Oxford and Parellax. However, as Oxford’s business evolved over the years it determined that it needed a more powerful and configurable system to meet its needs. Therefore, Oxford decided to take advantage of the current economic slow down to upgrade its systems and implement MAE.

Simon Chan, Oxford Products’ Senior Finance and Operations Manager, explained: "Oxford is a global company focused on delivering compelling, high value products with excellent customer service. Our corporate goal is to become the best knowledge and information based company in the world. We need to improve our IT platform to do that and upgrading Oxford Products to Parellax MAE is one of the ways we are doing that."

Moving Forward in Difficult Times

Oxford had been considering upgrading its Transact system to MAE since 2007. Unfortunately, the press of daily business made it difficult for Oxford’s staff to find the time to move forward on this project. Oxford, like many other companies, sees the current economic downturn as an opportunity to improve its business practices and systems during a period in which staff have more time to work on special projects. One of those projects is the upgrade to MAE.

Oxford decided to upgrade its systems in order to take advantage of MAE’s powerful reporting and configurable user interface and to upgrade to a newer technology platform.

MAE’s new, patent pending, XML Reporter allows Oxford to generate desktop publishing quality reports in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. XML Reporter can also generate Microsoft Excel Pivot Table reports so Oxford’s analysts can do powerful dice and slice reporting and analysis using the familiar Microsoft Excel user interface. XML Reporter’s template based functionality makes it easy for Oxford or Parellax staff to change the look and feel of reports.

MAE’s configurable user interface give Oxford the ability to configure MAE to meet its exact requirements. Oxford can even control which users can see which information, for example by giving all users access to Sales Orders but limiting which users can see prices.

MAE Version 7.0 runs on the Oracle 10g database. Users can deploy it as a client server or web based application and it can run on Oracle Application Server 10g.

About Oxford:

Oxford Industries, Inc. is a producer and marketer of branded and private label apparel for men, women and children. Oxford provides retailers and consumers with a wide variety of apparel products and services to suit their individual needs. Oxford’s brands include Tommy Bahama®, Ben Sherman®, Arnold Brant®, Ely & Walker® and Oxford Golf®. The Company also holds exclusive licenses to produce and sell certain product categories under the Kenneth Cole®, Geoffrey Beene®, Dockers® and Tommy Hilfiger® labels. Oxford’s wholesale customers are found in every major channel of distribution, including national chains, specialty catalogs, mass merchants, department stores, specialty stores and Internet retailers. The Company operates retail stores, restaurants and Internet websites for some of its brands. The Company also has license arrangements with select third parties to produce and sell certain product categories under its Tommy Bahama and/or Ben Sherman brands.

Oxford’s stock has traded on the NYSE since 1964 under the symbol OXM. For more information, please visit Oxford’s website at http://www.oxfordinc.com.