National Frozen Foods Looks to Fry the Competition with Real-Time Business Analysis from QlikView

Leader in Frozen Vegetable Processing Selects QlikView for On-the-Fly Access to Large Data Sets

RADNOR, Penn. – February 6, 2006 ─ QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing business intelligence software company, announced today that National Frozen Foods Corporation, one of the oldest and largest family-owned frozen food processing firms in the United States, has selected QlikView, QlikTech’s innovative business analysis tool.  National Frozen Foods will use QlikView to empower its employees across the company to analyze production and supply data in real time, enabling the company to react quickly to changes in demand thereby increasing productivity. 

National Frozen Foods was founded in 1912 and has since grown into one of the nation’s leading frozen vegetable processors, providing microbiologically safe frozen vegetables.  The company provides service worldwide and employs more than 600 full-time employees and an additional 1,400 seasonal workers throughout Washington and Oregon.  With such a larger number employees requiring access to large amounts of data daily, National Frozen Foods urgently needed a business intelligence solution. 

“Leveraging technology to sustain our competitive advantage is critical to our success,” said John Meersman, director of information technology, National Frozen Foods.  “Implementing QlikView gives our employees fast, comprehensive data access and analysis capabilities.  Employees at all levels of the company will get the right information when they need it, helping our company maintain a leadership position in the industry.” 

QlikTech is leading a new class of easy-to-use, fast and flexible business analysis solutions that empower individuals to improve corporate performance and drive innovation.  QlikTech’s flagship product, QlikView 7.2, extends the company’s vision of simplifying business analysis, offering solutions that can be deployed in days, where users can be trained in minutes, and where end users have the freedom to be more creative in their analyses.
 
“National Frozen Foods’ selection of QlikView is proof of the importance of business intelligence in the food industry today,” said Rick Pitts, CEO of QlikTech U.S.  “By providing their employees with a means to analyze information on the fly, National Frozen Foods will be able to maintain, defend, and grow their leadership position in a competitive industry.“

About National Frozen Foods Corporation

National Frozen Foods is headquartered in Seattle, WA and employs 600 people full time and an additional 1,400 seasonally throughout Washington and Oregon. The company is family-owned and one of the nation's premier frozen vegetable producers, ranking among the top five of the nation’s private-label frozen vegetable processors. The company offers a vast array of items worldwide in several categories including vegetables, blends, organic, and purees. Additional information concerning National Frozen Foods is available at www.nationalfrozenfoods.com

About QlikTech

QlikTech is the world’s fastest growing business intelligence software company.  QlikTech believes information should be available broadly, affordably, and quickly.  QlikTech’s flagship product, QlikView, makes sophisticated analysis dramatically easier to deploy, use and maintain.  QlikTech’s patented technology allows instant, in memory, manipulation of massive datasets on low cost hardware, allowing affordable widespread deployment of highly sophisticated analytic applications in days.  QlikView’s click-driven, visually-interactive interface is simple for end users to learn and use.  QlikView has over 2,850 customers in 58 countries, and adds five new customers each day.  In addition to hundreds of small and midsized companies, QlikTech’s customers include large corporations such as AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Top Flite, 3M, and The Campbell Soup Company.  QlikTech is privately held and venture backed by Accel Partners, Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Industrifonden.  Founded in Sweden, QlikTech has subsidiaries in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Scandinavia, and over 100 partners across the world.

For more information on QlikView, please call 1-888-828-9768 or visit www.qliktech.com.