November 10th, 2025

Clarks Boosts Efficiency and Global Agility with Centric PLM and Centric Planning

Pioneering footwear brand launches Centric PLM and Centric Planning as its globalization expansion platform

CAMPBELL, Calif., November 11, 2025 – Centric Software® is pleased to announce that global footwear brand Clarks has gone live with Centric Product Lifecycle Management (Centric PLM™) and Centric Planning™, marking a major step forward in Clarks’ digital transformation journey. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, market, sell and replenish fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care products as well as multi-category retail, to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Clarks was founded by two brothers in 1825 in Somerset, England, launching a shoemaking legacy that has since produced over 22,000 styles and reached over 100 global markets. Today, Clarks is an international brand that combines timeless craftsmanship with modern comfort technologies. The company connects with consumers through a mix of retail stores, wholesale partners, franchise operations and digital channels.

Celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, Clarks has successfully implemented Centric PLM, purpose-built for the footwear industry to streamline end-to-end product development, meeting high standards for innovation and execution at Clarks. Centric PLM provides a unified platform for managing product data, driving faster iteration and greater visibility throughout the development cycle.

“Clarks is building the digital infrastructure for a highly agile, insight-driven business,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “By connecting data throughout the product lifecycle, they’re replacing silos with real-time visibility to empower faster, smarter decisions at every stage. We’re proud to enable their next phase of growth.”

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Clarks (www.clarks.com)

Clarks is a globally recognized footwear brand with a legacy spanning nearly 200 years, offering innovative comfort and timeless style. The company sells over 33 million pairs of shoes annually, operating more than 500 stores and employing over 6,500 people worldwide. Serving customers in over 79 countries, Clarks is committed to craftsmanship, responsible sourcing and sustainability, shaping how people move and live through quality, design and ethical practices.

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, 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, 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.