May 23rd, 2025

Centric Software Wins 5 Just Style Excellence Awards 2025 for Breakthrough AI, Market Intelligence and Strategic Innovations

Recognized for equipping brands and retailers with advanced AI tools, market insights, pricing intelligence and expansion into PIM/DAM/syndication/digital shelf analytics

CAMPBELL, Calif., May 26, 2025 – Centric Software® is proud to announce it has won five major categories in the Just Style Excellence Awards 2025. These prestigious accolades recognize Centric Software’s ongoing commitment to innovation, strategic product development and customer-centric solutions that drive measurable results for brands, retailers and manufacturers of all sizes. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Centric Software’s product concept to commercialization platform for fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, retailers and manufacturers integrates PLM, Planning, Pricing & Inventory, Market Intelligence, Visual Boards and PXM — all infused with AI to meet the fast-paced, data-driven needs of modern retail. Together, these solutions empower smarter decisions and greater agility across the product lifecycle.

Centric Software is recognized across five award categories:

Innovation – Design Tools for Centric AI Fashion Inspiration™, an advanced ideation tool, seamlessly integrated with Centric PLM™, that transforms the creative process by enabling design teams to quickly generate unique ideas to get clothing and footwear to market faster.

Product Launches – AI: Design for Centric AI Fashion Inspiration™, for SMB, a tailored version of Centric’s AI ideation tool specifically built for emerging brands. This new innovation brings powerful design generation capabilities to smaller teams, accelerating speed-to-market and market responsiveness.

Business Expansion – Pricing Strategy for the Centric Pricing & Inventory™ solution, which enables brands and retailers to optimize pricing, reduce excess inventory, minimize markdowns and make data-driven decisions for optimal profitability.

Research and Development – Market Insights for Centric Market Intelligence™, a cutting-edge tool that delivers real-time insights into consumer behavior, competitor strategies and market trends, empowering smarter R&D and product development.

M&A – Strategic Acquisition for Centric Software’s acquisition of Contentserv, expanding Centric’s cloud-based platform to include powerful Product Information Management (PIM), Digital Asset Management (DAM), content syndication and Digital Shelf Analytics (DSA) for full Product Experience Management (PXM) capabilities. This strategic move enhances digital product experiences and enables brands and retailers to accelerate speed-to-market by 30%, reduce catalog creation time by 70%, improve product data accuracy by 75% and significantly expand digital sales channels and languages.

“These awards are a reflection of Centric Software’s relentless focus on innovation and delivering best-in-class solutions that enable our customers to respond quickly to market changes and stay competitive,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. “Whether it’s through pioneering AI tools or expanding our platform capabilities, we’re committed to empowering brands, retailers and consumer goods manufacturers — from global enterprises to emerging players — with the innovations they need to thrive.”

“We are honored to be recognized once again by Just Style for our product and strategic excellence,” added Groves, “We’re proud to be setting the pace for innovation in the industry.”

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Centric Software® (centricsoftware.com)

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

Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.
Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point.
Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.

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, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.