99 Cents Only Stores

Eric Schiffer joined the Company in 1991 and has served in various managerial capacities. In March 2000, he was promoted to President and in January 2005 to Chief Executive Officer. From 1987 to 1991, he was employed by Oxford Partners, a venture capital firm. Mr. Schiffer is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.

Jeff Gold joined the Company in 1984 and has served in various managerial capacities. From 1991 to 2004 he served as Senior Vice President of Real Estate and Information Systems. In January 2005, he was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer.

Robert Kautz joined the Company in November 2005 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was the CEO/CFO of Taste Good LLC, a private start-up in food production and distribution, from September 2004 until he joined the Company. He was CFO and subsequently CEO for Wolfgang Puck Casual Dining and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide where he was employed from 1998 until July 2004. Mr. Kautz is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.

Howard Gold joined the Company in 1982 and has served in various managerial capacities. In 1991 Mr. Gold was named Senior Vice President of Distribution, and in January 2005 he was named Executive Vice President of Special Projects. He has been an executive with the Company for over 20 years. He served as a director of the Company from 1991 until March 2005, and re-joined the Board of Directors in April 2007.

David Gold has been Chairman of the Board since the founding of the Company in 1965. Mr. Gold has over 50 years of retail experience.

Lawrence Glascott serves on the Company's Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Mr. Glascott has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of General Finance Corporation since November 2005. Before Mr. Glascott retired in 1996, he had been Vice President Finance of Waste Management International, an environmental services company, since 1991. Prior thereto, Mr. Glascott was a partner at Arthur Andersen LLP and was the Arthur Andersen LLP partner in charge of the 99 Only Stores account for six years. Additionally, Mr. Glascott was in charge of the Los Angeles based Arthur Andersen LLP Enterprise Group practice for over 15 years.

Jennifer Holden Dunbar serves on the Company’s Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. She has served as a director of Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp. since February 2004, as well as from 1992 to 1997. Ms. Dunbar has served as Principal and Managing Director of Dunbar Partners, LLC, an investment/advisory firm since 2005. From 1994 to 1998, she was a partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., a private equity firm, which she joined in 1989. During the 1990s, she served as a director of several public and private companies including Thrifty Payless, Inc., Kash N’ Karry Food Stores, Inc. and Gart Sports Company. Ms. Dunbar received her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1989.

Marvin Holen serves on the Company’s Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. He is an attorney and in 1960 founded the law firm of Van Petten & Holen. He served on the Board of the Southern California Rapid Transit District from 1976 to 1993 (six of those years as the Board’s President). He served on the Board of Trustees of California Blue Shield from 1972 to 1978, on the Board of United California Savings Bank from 1992 to 1994 and has served on several other corporate, financial institution and philanthropic boards of directors. He currently serves on the Board of United Pacific Bank.

Peter Woo serves on the Company’s Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. He is a founder, co-owner and President of Megatoys, Inc., a toy and general merchandise manufacturer and import/export company headquartered in Los Angeles that he founded in 1989. Megatoys operates buying, logistics and export facilities in Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as warehouse and distribution facilities in the U.S. Mr. Woo was instrumental in the redevelopment of the downtown Los Angeles area now known as the “toy district”, and has served as an advisor on international trade to the City of Los Angeles.