"Bringing new collections to market each season has been a challenge unique to the apparel industry and the pace of this cycle has increased in recent years," said Chris Groves, president and CEO of Centric Software. "To cope with this pace and assess collection profitability during rapidly changing seasons, this industry can benefit from dedicated planning and business analytical tools that many other industries use to predict and improve business performance."

"In order to expand our business and successfully enter into new markets, we need web-based applications that support our processes and enable up-to-the minute collaboration for our global teams," said Nicolas Menrath, VP operations at Le Coq Sportif. "After thorough research of all competitors, we chose Centric's application suite because it was the only PLM solution that integrates line planning and product sourcing along with traditional product specification functionality. Centric's applications will enable us to manage more lines and gain better visibility into the entire collection process, so we can successfully introduce more collections per year and obtain our aggressive growth objectives."

"Among all the vendors addressing the apparel market, Centric is the only vendor with the core capability of combining product and business information from ERP and other systems," said Chris Groves. "We recognized a need for this expertise in the apparel industry, and have built Product Intelligence applications from the ground up that deliver multi-level visibility into the key performance metrics for sales, forecasts, calendars, costs, margins, status and suppliers as well as product specifications. For the first time, apparel companies can coordinate better decisions with timely execution on all items in multiple collections."

The Centric application suite for apparel (see "Centric Software Delivers First Apparel Suite With Operational Performance Management" press release) is an integrated solution that consists of three web-based applications designed to improve overall season profitability and speed time-to-market by providing immediate visibility into costs, forecasts, orders, calendars, suppliers and product specifications. The three applications manage technical product specifications (Centric Product Specification), supplier performance and sourced product management (Centric Product Sourcing), and calendar and line planning (Centric Decision Center).

Built upon Centric's innovative Product Intelligence™ technology, the suite combines powerful PLM capabilities with proprietary data aggregation functionality integrating powerful business logic rollup, product specification management and handoffs. The unique combination of capabilities allow executives and multi-disciplinary teams to collect all relevant information for any product initiative, decide on appropriate action, execute to plan and assess progress against business goals.

About Le Coq Sportif
The Le Coq Sportif brand was founded in 1882 by a visionary entrepreneur named Emile Camuset and was the number one European brand during the 1970's and 80's.

Le Coq Sportif has a very rich history thanks to supplier partnerships with teams, events and prestigious athletes from the 50's to the 80's including the French Federation of Football, the French Federation of rugby, supplier of all jerseys for the Tour de France, the delegation of the athletes for the Olympic Games during more than 10 Olympiads, Ajax Amsterdam and Johan Cruyff, Michel Platini, Yannick Noah, the winner of Roland Garros, Argentina Federation of Football double winner of the World cup, the Italian Federation of Football winner of the World cup in 1982, Guy Drut Olympic champion in 1976, Jean Pierre Rives, and Arthur Ashe among others.

In 2006 a new performing team was formed to develop a new exciting project to reposition the French brand as the alternative in sport and mode market. The values of Le Coq Sportif are generosity, sincerity, elegance, passion, boldness, pride and French flair. For more information, visit www.Lecoqsportif.com.

About Centric Software, Inc. (www.centricsoftware.com)

Centric Software is a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions for makers of hard and/or soft lines in the fashion and consumer goods industries. Centric 8 delivers easy-to-use functionality to manage critical, inseparable business processes, including product development, sourcing, line planning and profitability management, through a modularized system that implements and delivers value rapidly.

With Centric 8, companies are able to cut costs and inefficiency, speed new products to market, drive margin improvement, and improve global collaboration and compliance. Global enterprises including INTERSPORT France, Christine Laure, Balenciaga, KlimUSA, Bass Pro Shops, Bravo Sports, Longchamp, Silver Jeans Co. and United Stationers use Centric solutions to achieve revenue growth, reduce costs and deliver trend-right products to their customers.

Centric is a registered trademark of Centric Software . All other brands and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.