CAMPBELL, CA, June 24, 2024 – Centric Software is pleased to announce that Petit Bateau has selected Centric Market Intelligence to execute its data-driven pricing strategy. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in Troyes in 1893, Petit Bateau is synonymous with quality and French know-how. This legacy is embodied by its 2600 employees who write the brand’s history every day, all over the world. Today, Petit Bateau operates in 55 countries, through a network of e-commerce sites and more than 350 points of sale.

Faced with a range of market challenges including rising raw material costs, such as the rising cost of cotton, a falling birth rate in Europe and an explosion in the second-hand market, Petit Bateau needed a high-performance, intuitive competitive market intelligence (CMI) solution. It is vital for the brand to have in-depth, real-time analysis on assortments and prices, as well as robust data on product trends. Petit Bateau’s objective is to remain competitive with a more strategic assortment and pricing architecture to maintain its appeal to customers.

“Price increases have their limits and we needed to fine-tune our pricing strategy and the breadth of our offer, including the number of products in each category,” explains Anne-Laure Christoph, head of children’s sales merchandising and pricing at Petit Bateau. “We wanted to offer our customers a fair price in relation to the perceived value of each product and the pricing practices of our competitors.”

To develop their pricing architecture, Petit Bateau had been using rudimentary methods with teams manually collecting prices from competing online sales sites and compiling data in spreadsheets. Petit Bateau tried using a different CMI solution but this other platform lacked critical functionality such as the ability to scan a wide breadth of product categories and provide easy-to-use analyses and reports based on detailed product attributes and style features, critical to apparel.

Petit Bateau thus looked for an alternative solution and chose Centric Software. With Centric Market Intelligence, Petit Bateau can now reap the benefits of sophisticated AI-powered product monitoring and high-quality product image matching capabilities for a wider range of styles and categories, coupled with best-in-class accuracy.

“Centric’s solution seemed very intuitive, and we had great conversations with the pre-sales team,” notes Christoph. “Data reliability was addressed right from the start and the Centric team was very attentive and very reactive. They were quick to respond.” Christoph adds, “Centric simplifies errors or data anomalies in product categorization. Teams are now monitoring twice as many brands as they did with our previous solution.”

“With just a few clicks, we have accurate, reliable information on colors, materials, pricing architecture and price changes made by our competitors,” finishes Christoph.

“We’re delighted that Petit Bateau, an established name in children’s and adult fashion, has chosen Centric Market Intelligence. This French brand enjoys a solid reputation and has been able to withstand the ups and downs of the market by innovating over the decades, while remaining true to its heritage,” says Fabrice Canonge, president at Centric Software. “With Centric Market Intelligence, Petit Bateau now has intelligent, reliable and high-performance data at the heart of its decision-making process. We are pleased to develop this promising partnership.”

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 21, 2024 – Centric Software is pleased to announce that global sustainable fashion brand Reformation has selected Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards.

Founded in Los Angeles in 2009, Reformation has long been a pioneer in sustainable fashion. The brand is famous for combining vintage-inspired designs with sustainable business practices, releasing twice-weekly limited-edition collections online and in stores. The brand has also established itself as a leader in retail innovation, pioneering a proprietary tech-enabled store concept that brings the best of its online experience to its 40+ physical doors.

The company decided to pursue full digitization of internal processes to support its ongoing growth trajectory and future scale. After an extensive assessment of product lifecycle management (PLM) vendors, Reformation chose Centric Software as their innovation partner. Reformation will implement Centric PLM including the Visual PLM Assortment Board, part of the Centric Visual Boards family of next-generation visual collaboration tools.

“Centric has an easily configurable system that suits our needs,” says Linh Ha, product manager at Reformation. “Seeing how all the information on our raw materials, sustainability and finished products could be in one place and speak to each other was a real ‘aha’ moment. PLM allows us to easily track every element of a product back through the supply chain and manage vendor certifications and audits. The ability to easily integrate Centric with our existing purchase order, PIM and 2D and 3D design solutions is also a major plus.”

“We are really impressed with Centric Visual Boards and couldn’t find any other vendor that offers that capability,” adds Abhijeet Dudi, VP of product management at Reformation. “Merchandising seasons don’t work the same way as product development seasons, but Centric Visual Boards connect the dots between them and will enable the product development team to define our own seasonality based on the merchandising plan.”

“We are very pleased that Reformation has chosen to partner with us for both Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards,” says Fabrice Canonge, president of Centric Software. “Reformation is growing rapidly and needs the right tools to fulfil their mission of producing sustainable, high-quality clothing. We look forward to working further with the Reformation team to drive greater efficiency and achieve their goals.”

About Reformation

Founded in 2009, Reformation (Ref) is a global lifestyle brand on a mission to bring sustainable fashion to everyone. Ref combines stylish, vintage-inspired designs with eco-friendly business practices, releasing twice-weekly limited-edition collections for individuals who want to feel beautiful and live sustainably. While sustainable measures are incorporated into every aspect of its operations, the company’s efforts ladder up to two hero commitments: becoming Climate Positive by 2025 and Circular by 2030. Its products have been climate neutral since 2015 and the business has been Climate Neutral Certified since 2021. The brand has also established itself as a leader in retail innovation, pioneering a proprietary tech-enabled store concept that brings the best of its online experience to its physical doors. Today, Reformation is proud to employ 1,000+ team members, operate 40+ stores, and ship its apparel to nearly every country in the world.

For more information, visit www.thereformation.com.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 21, 2024 – Centric Software, the product lifecycle management (PLM) market leader, is pleased to announce that CIOReview Magazine has featured Centric Software in their List of 10 Most Promising Adobe Solutions Providers 2024. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell food & beverage, cosmetics and consumer products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

The annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIOReview’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship. It singles out companies that are at the forefront of providing Adobe solutions and transforming businesses.

“We are glad to announce Centric Software on the list of 10 Most Promising Adobe Solutions Providers 2024,” said Justin Smith, managing editor of CIOReview. “Centric’s strategy is grounded in a collaborative and phased approach, often described as ‘crawl, walk, run.’ This methodology involves working closely with clients to gradually implement new processes, which effectively eases the transition for teams and mitigates the typical hurdles associated with adopting new software systems.”

18,000+ brands around the world use Centric Software’s AI-powered solutions to speed time to market, streamline collaboration and launch successful assortments. Centric Software is continually deepening its Adobe Illustrator integration, leveraging market-driven innovations to create a seamless design-to-market workflow. Centric’s Adobe Connector has had 10+ releases and 120+ feature updates in the past 5 years. These include a vast amount of actions around materials, styles, colors and theme libraries, as well as the ability to create and manage multi-level material and style Bills of Material (BOMs).

Centric’s Adobe Connector is bi-directional, enabling users to complete actions from either Adobe or Centric PLM, which eliminates many repetitive tasks and lets the user work in their preferred environment. The connector can manage large material and color libraries with over 50,000 entries. Users benefit from increased collaboration, more creativity and faster time to market.

“Centric’s Adobe Connect makes it possible for our designers to work directly in PLM,” says Steve Chastain, global head of IT at Liberated Brands. “The connector is user-friendly and intuitive. It saves time and gives designers greater ownership of tech packs and BOMs, as well as better visibility throughout the product lifecycle.”

“We would like to thank CIOReview Magazine for recognizing Centric’s commitment to best-of-breed Adobe integration,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. “We develop our solutions hand-in-hand with our customers, and Adobe integration is crucial for many brands to bring designs to life and deliver products consumers want to buy. This award is a testament to the hard work of our team who work tirelessly on future-focused integrations with Centric solutions.”

About CIOReview

CIOReview is a digital and print technology magazine reaching out to Sr.IT Mgmt. Such as CIO, CTO, executive and senior VPs, director (IS/IT), manager (IS/IT) and senior corporate mgmt.

For more information, visit www.cioreview.com.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

VELIZY-VILLACOUBLAY, France, June 20, 2024 – Dassault Systèmes announced that Mahindra & Mahindra, a leader in automotive, farm and services businesses in India, is advancing its digital transformation by selecting Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud to accelerate its end-to-end new product development process.

Mahindra & Mahindra’s strategic decision to adopt the 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud for its future auto programs will enable it to improve the efficiency of its process and reduce the time to market of safer and more sustainable vehicles.

Mahindra & Mahindra will use the “Drive Emotion,” “Global Modular Architecture,” and “Smart Safe and Connected” industry solution experiences based on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform to connect thousands of users – employees and suppliers – in one virtual environment empowering collaboration and innovation. By working on the cloud, teams can quickly adopt industry best practices, collaborate seamlessly, and access real-time information. This ensures enhanced visibility and facilitates informed decision-making across product planning, design, engineering, strategic sourcing, and digital manufacturing domains.

“We wanted high-performance technology that would enable us to launch innovative vehicles faster and fulfill our sustainability ambitions. With Dassault Systèmes’ expertise and 3DEXPERIENCE platform, we can deepen collaboration, and expedite problem identification and resolution, leading to streamlining new vehicle launch timelines,” said Rucha Nanavati, CIO, Mahindra & Mahindra.

“Mahindra & Mahindra has a long-standing partnership with Dassault Systèmes and they continue to put their trust in our solutions to develop the next generation of their vehicles,” said Laurence Montanari, vice president, transportation & mobility industry, Dassault Systèmes. “Vehicle development is complexifying every day due to regulations. Our 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud addresses this complexity. Our work with Mahindra & Mahindra demonstrates the maturity of our cloud technology and solutions for automotive sector challenges.”

About Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes is a catalyst for human progress. They provide business and people with collaborative virtual environments to imagine sustainable innovations. By creating virtual twin experiences of the real world with their 3DEXPERIENCE platform and applications, their customers can redefine the creation, production and life-cycle-management processes of their offer and thus have a meaningful impact to make the world more sustainable. The beauty of the Experience Economy is that it is a human-centered economy for the benefit of all – consumers, patients and citizens. Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 350,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 150 countries.

For more information, visit www.3ds.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 20, 2024 – Centric Software is pleased to announce that Laura Canada has selected Centric PLM to drive efficiency and speed time to market. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Established in 1930, Laura Canada is a distinguished family-owned enterprise specializing in women’s fashion. As Laura emerged, women were entering the workforce, eager to affirm their place in all spheres, not just at home.

Today, Laura Canada continues to champion this ethos. Operating under two prominent brands, Laura and Melanie Lyne, the company expertly designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes an extensive range of clothing and accessories. Based in Quebec, Laura Canada proudly serves customers nationwide with over 140 retail locations and a robust e-commerce platform, offering a unique shopping experience rooted in human connection.

Seeking to improve efficiency and speed time to market, Laura Canada decided to invest in a best-of-breed PLM solution as part of a complete digital restructuring project.

“We were relying on outdated and disconnected PLM and ERP systems that did not communicate with each other,” explains Gianni Rino, VP Info Tech, at Laura Canada. “Too much information was held in people’s heads, and we always had to check on the latest updates and revisions. We needed a complete revamp of our digital process to achieve uniformity and a single version of truth.”

Laura Canada selected Centric PLM because of Centric’s apparel expertise, as well as the solution’s configurability and ease of use. The breadth and depth of Centric PLM provides a ‘one-stop-shop’ solution that will serve them in multiple functional areas.

With Centric PLM in place, Laura Canada is expecting to enhance data accuracy, and to be able to quickly develop comprehensive tech packs as well as improve communication with vendors across the globe. They also wish to improve inter-departmental efficiency and boost visibility at all levels of the company.

“As part of our complete digital restructuring, Centric is the core solution to manage data and federate essential data to other systems,” says Tanya Papadopoulos, VP Merchandising, at Laura Canada. “Having a solution that manages all the data across the design, development, sourcing and production departments gives greater visibility across the product lifecycle and creates a more efficient process to bring products to market faster. The data is much more precise as there is only one version of the truth. There is a history of changes and updates which allows for audits and course correction if required.”

“We are excited to welcome Laura Canada to the Centric family,” says Fabrice Canonge, president of Centric Software. “Laura Canada is going through an ambitious behind-the-scenes digital overhaul that will bring great benefits in terms of efficiency and growth. We are very happy to partner with the Laura Canada team to achieve their goals.”

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 19, 2024 – Lacoste, the iconic fashion-sport brand, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution and Centric Visual Boards, a visually driven assortment optimization solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, cosmetics & personal care and other consumer goods to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

In a push to improve efficiency, accelerate product development and speed time-to-market, Lacoste wanted a digital solution to rationalize product information while also enabling them to leverage historic data. Specifically, they sought to adopt a single, company-wide PLM capable of streamlining the development of multiple categories of products all in the same system. With Centric PLM, hand in hand with Centric Visual Assortment Boards, Lacoste will also accelerate and optimize the overall product offer including assortments adapted to local markets. Finally, the company wished to harmonize ways of working and capitalize on industry best-practices.

After thoroughly evaluating several vendors, Lacoste chose Centric Software because, according to them, Centric is the only solution that is truly fashion-focused and can adapt to all of their needs. Deciding factors in favor of Centric were the out of the box (OOTB), high-configurability of Centric solutions, Centric team experience and integrated industry best-practice expertise.

“We are thrilled that a global brand like Lacoste has chosen both Centric Visual Boards and Centric PLM to drive the digital transformation of their assortment optimization and product development process,” says Fabrice Canonge, president of Centric Software. “We are honored to count Lacoste, a very highly regarded name in the fashion, luxury and sport world, among our clients. Their drive for ingenuity and their high standards of excellence will push us in our goals of continuous innovation and improvement, and we look forward to partnering with Lacoste as they achieve their short and long term success.”

Learn more about Centric PLM and Visual Assortment Board.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

ANDOVER, MA, June 13, 2024 – Aras, a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions, announced today the availability of its new Supplier Management Solutions for Aras Innovator. This suite of applications streamlines collaboration, assessment, and connectivity with suppliers and OEMs by providing secure, remote access to controlled subsets of digital thread and PLM information through configurable mobile-optimized Web applications.

Addressing Industry Challenges

Product oriented organizations rely on suppliers and business partners as extensions of their operations. In recent years, the supply chain has experienced increasing pressure from strict compliance regulations, new sustainability initiatives, and an increased focus on transparency. For example, the Digital Product Passport initiative in the European Union strives to promote sustainability and sourcing transparency by mandating tracking and reporting guidelines for a range of industries starting in 2026. Many organizations struggle to meet these demands due to outdated systems, limited visibility into partner information, and inconsistent communication with supply chain partners.

As per Gartner Analyst Sohard Aggarwal, “As sustainability continues to be a high priority for manufacturers, retailers and regulators, manufacturers are becoming increasingly reliant on sustainability data from their suppliers. Suppliers contribute the highest impact to products and the impact is indirect for the buyer. These impacts, such as working conditions (labor rights, wages) and Scope 3 emissions, are the most challenging because they are external to manufacturers and their personal impact.[1]”

Streamlined Supplier Collaboration with Aras’ Unified Secure Environment

Aras’ Supplier Management Solutions empower organizations to collaborate more effectively with suppliers and OEMs via a unified secured environment, allowing all users access to a single set of processes and data that is up to date.  By facilitating communication, data sharing, and connectivity across the full lifecycle of product development, organizations can achieve better visibility, data analytics, and efficiency. They can also reduce inventory and overhead costs, while improving quality control.

“The integration of Supplier Management Solutions with Aras Innovator offers manufacturers a holistic approach to managing the entire product lifecycle, from design and development to procurement and production,” said John Sperling, SVP of product management, Aras. “By leveraging automation, collaboration, and data-driven insights, our customers can achieve greater efficiency and agility in managing their business while addressing compliance and sustainability objectives across product lifecycles.”

Key Features and Benefits

• Controlled Access: Provides secure, remote access to relevant PLM information for suppliers and OEMs. This reduces program delays and ensures timely enhanced communication and trust between all users.
• Streamlined Communication: Facilitates bi-directional communication and threaded discussions between organizations and suppliers, resulting in quicker, better and transparent decision making. Inform suppliers of risks, changes to shipping addresses or company policies by sending Buyer Notices.
• Configurable Applications: Customized mobile-optimized web applications to meet specific business needs and support processes, improving flexibility, productivity and performance.
• Document Sharing: Allows sharing of relevant supplier documents such as CAD files and product specifications to all stakeholders trusting in one source of truth. This results in improved pricing, timing and quality from suppliers.
• Platform Security and Compliance: Ensures a secure, traceable bi-directional exchange of information between supply chain partners. With automated processes for supplier quality and risk management, organizations can effectively address compliance issues and regulatory risks, maintaining consistent quality standards across the supply chain.
• Measure Supplier Performance: Monitor supplier performance with supplier scorecards allowing Buyers to compare and make more informed sourcing decisions. Issue suppliers corrective action requests (SCARs) and track progress through collaborative workflows.

Availability and Resources

Aras’ Supplier Management Solutions are available now. Watch their recent webinar, Enhance Collaboration: Securely Share Product Data with Your Suppliers, to learn more about this suite of applications.

^{[1] Gartner, Quick Answer: Supplier Collaboration Platforms with PLM Advance Sustainability, Sohard Aggarwal, 29 January 2024.}

About Aras

Aras is a leading provider of product lifecycle management and digital thread solutions. Its technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible solutions built on a powerful digital thread backbone and a low-code development platform. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain.

Visit www.aras.com to learn more.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 12, 2024 – is pleased to announce that clean cosmetics company ILIA has selected Centric PLM to drive efficiency to streamline growth. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, formulate, develop, procure, manufacture and sell consumer goods products such as cosmetics & personal care, food & beverage, fashion and multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Headquartered in Laguna Beach, California and established in 2011, ILIA Beauty is a leader in the clean beauty space. Founder Sasha Plavsic sought to recreate a favorite lip balm with safe and effective ingredients. The line has expanded to include a broader range of cosmetics for lips, eyes and skin. Products are sold via branded websites in the US, Canada and the UK. Distribution is also through wholesale and retail partners like Sephora, Space NK and Oh My Cream.

The company has experienced rapid growth. Chief Operating Officer Karl Trepanier says, “We’re widely distributed in Europe so we must comply with the EU regulations. When considering new markets that have varying and rigorous legislative requirements, we need to have a much better handle on everything related to the composition of our products, ingredients, formulations and packaging materials to meet environmental regulations in those markets.”

Ten different functions within the company created a ‘wish list.’ The selection team evaluated the vendors under consideration, checking off the boxes which had to do with bringing value, categorizing information, cosmetics regulation, formulation software and so on. “The vetting exercise took at least six months before finally landing on Centric so easily,” says Trepanier. “Centric PLM met the greatest number of criteria, had the most user-friendly interface and a cohesive workflow approach to how we already go about developing products.”

“Another point in Centric’s favor is the connector to FoodChain ID/Decernis, the global food safety and regulatory data company, which we plan to use in our compliance process to replace shared drives, spreadsheets and manual data entry,” adds Trepanier.

Performing a cosmetics ingredients check is incredibly time consuming and data can be missed while searching in various places for information. Consumer inquiries or regulatory bodies asking for proof of compliance requires fast action. Says Tranpanier, “We need to quickly and confidently access any data related to ingredients. This is the new reality of managing our business.”

“With Centric PLM we can catalog product information in a standardized manner and readily access ingredient data. We’ll have visibility into parts of the process that we don’t today.”

Trepanier’s advice to other companies: “For anybody considering PLM implementation, it’s a significant change management project. It must be taken on as such from the CEO on down, to make PLM successful and have it become the way-of-working for the company going forward. We know we have the best partner in Centric Software to take this on.”

CEO of Centric Software Chris Groves says, “We are honored that ILIA has selected Centric PLM. Our consumer goods expertise and functionality in the cosmetics space, including the regulatory piece, are important to this growing global company and we look forward to our continued association.”

About ILIA

ILIA Beauty is a skin-centric beauty brand that led the evolution of clean beauty, creating safe, efficacious products that defy the conventions of the category. Founded by Sasha Plavsic in Laguna Beach, California, ILIA’s thoughtful range of products are meticulously-crafted, prioritizing exceptional formulas that combine high performance with skin-loving benefits. Since 2011, the brand has brought innovative, cult-favorite products to market, such as the Super Skin Serum Tint SPF 40 and Limitless Lash Mascara, that seamlessly blend efficacy, ethics, and innovation.

For more information, visit www.iliabeauty.com.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 12, 2024 – Centric Software, the product lifecycle management (PLM) market leader is pleased to announce its recent partnership with Aeon Topvalu Co., Ltd., a major Japanese retailer. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

AEON Topvalu Co., Ltd. is a prominent subsidiary of AEON Group, a leading Japanese retailer. Established to develop and manage AEON’s private label products, AEON Topvalu specializes in offering a wide range of high-quality, affordable goods, from food and beverages to household items and apparel.

Keen to expand its private label product line, Aeon Topvalu recognized the need for a centralized system to manage labeling information, including ingredients, nutrients, allergen details, the origin of raw materials in processed foods, product features and more. Additionally, the company sought to streamline packaging development tasks to improve the efficiency of proofing processes and better track design changes. To achieve these goals, Aeon Topvalu selected Centric PLM as its technology partner.

Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software says, “We are honored that Aeon Topvalu, a core business of the Aeon Group, which has a significant influence in the Japanese and Asian retail market, has chosen Centric Software as its partner for operational efficiency and digital transformation (DX). We will continue to support AEON Group as a partner in achieving its growth strategies, including advancing its digitalization and expanding its global business footprint.”

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, June 12, 2024 – Centric Software is delighted to announce that the iconic retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. has selected Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards to further drive the digital transformation of its assortment and product go-to-market strategy.

Centric Software will provide integrated PLM and visual assortment capabilities to support Abercrombie & Fitch Co.’s merchandising, design, sourcing and planning teams. Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards will support the global evolution of assortment development and product execution as A&F Co. aims to get even closer to its customers; equipping the teams with tools to visualize assortments more easily, adapt assortments to regional customer preferences, drive efficient buying sessions and more.

“As part of our ongoing digital revolution at Abercrombie & Fitch Co., we’re focused on implementing tools that allow us to get the right products to the right places around the world as efficiently as possible. With that, we’re looking forward to partnering with Centric to provide an innovative end-to-end solution to speed time to market and support communication and visibility across multiple global functions,” said Billy Murray, Group VP Enterprise Systems at Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

“Centric’s suite of collaborative visual tools will support the enhancement of Abercrombie & Fitch Co.’s product catalog and go-to-market strategies across regions,” said Fabrice Canonge, president of Centric Software. “We’re looking forward to supporting the A&F Co. team achieve their strategic digital transformation goals and fulfill their ambitions to create more localized, optimized regional assortments for their global consumer base.”

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in consumer goods like fashion, outdoor, luxury, home, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.