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22 July, 2024

Carrefour Selects Centric PLM to Strengthen Private Label Purchasing Strategy

Leading French global food retailer partners with Centric Software to accelerate time to market, support strategic growth and decrease costs

CAMPBELL, Calif., July 23, 2024Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, proudly announces its partnership with Carrefour, one of the world’s leading food retailers. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, formulate, develop, procure, manufacture and sell consumer goods products in food & beverage, grocery, multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

As part of its mission to make their products both affordable and accessible to everyone, and to support their 2026 strategic objectives, Carrefour is focusing its efforts on building a cutting-edge digital retail company. The project will be targeting G6 countries in Europe: France, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Romania and Poland.

To create this new digital retail company, strengthen its purchasing strategy and streamline processes, Carrefour underwent an in-depth search for a PLM solution.

After examining numerous solutions, Carrefour selected Centric PLM™ as the foundation to support its ambitious 2026 strategic goals. Centric’s proven broad functional coverage for food and HPC (Home and Personal Care) products, and Centric PLM’s user-friendly experience, modular and flexible solution and robust technical foundation were features that led to Carrefour’s decision.

“We are thrilled that Carrefour has selected Centric Software as a partner to support their 2026 strategic goals,” says Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software. “With Centric PLM as the foundation of their digital transformation, we look forward to seeing Carrefour continue to make quality services, products and foods across accessible to all, across all channels.”

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About the Carrefour Group (www.carrefour.com) With a multi-format network of over 14,000 stores in more than 40 countries, the Carrefour Group is one of the world's leading food retailers. Carrefour posted sales of €94.1 billion in 2023. Its integrated store network employs more than 300,000 people who help to make Carrefour the world leader in the food transition for all, by offering quality food every day, accessible everywhere and at a reasonable price. In total, more than 500,000 people work under Carrefour banners worldwide. For more information, visit www.carrefour.com, or find us on X (@news_carrefour) and LinkedIn (Carrefour).

Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com)

Silicon Valley-based Centric Software provides an innovative product concept-to-customer platform for producers, brands and retailers of all sizes in the food & beverage industry, food service and grocery retail sectors. Centric Software works closely with customers to achieve more efficient project management and safer product development, execute a competitive retail and product strategy, increase agility, speed time to market and get closer to consumers, resulting in maximized revenues and margins.

All solutions are highly configurable and built hand-in-hand with market-leading companies:

  • Centric PLM™ streamlines product development, procurement, formulation, specification management, regulatory compliance, nutrition, quality assurance, packaging & artwork proofing, sustainability and product portfolio management.
  • Centric Visual Boards™ improves team collaboration and optimizes range category management to get closer to consumers, be more competitive.
  • Centric Planning™ delivers best-in-class, easy-to-use and visually driven financial, merchandise and product portfolio planning as well as store & vendor forecasting for seamless and fast, pre- and in-season execution.
  • Centric Pricing and Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margin and revenue improvement by influencing demand via price and inventory optimization.
  • Centric Market Intelligence™ is a market insights platform for data-informed decision-making on competitor offers and pricing. Provides consumer trends and buying behavior as well.

Centric Software proudly maintains a 100% go-live rate. Awarded for excellence by Just Food 3 times, by Frost & Sullivan several times and the recipient of many other regional accolades, Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team and to partner with the best customers.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Planning, Centric Pricing & Inventory, Centric Market Intelligence and Centric Visual Boards are Trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.

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