December 2nd, 2025

H&A Selects Centric PLM to Drive Innovation, Efficiency and Compliance in Cosmetics & Personal Care Manufacturing

“Centric PLM gives us the digital foundation to scale our business, strengthen compliance and continue delivering trusted, high-quality products.”

— Paul Grewer

Joint Managing Director at H&A

Leading UK-Based Personal Care Supplier Streamlines Product Development and Strengthens Compliance with Centric PLM

CAMPBELL, Calif., December 3, 2025 – Centric Software® is pleased to announce that H&A, a leading UK-based manufacturer of health and beauty products, has chosen Centric PLM™ as its strategic platform to centralize product data, ensure compliance and accelerate time-to-market. Centric Software® delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization.

Cosmetics & personal care, fashion, food & beverage, grocery and multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in 1988 by Angela Hall, H&A began as a small team selling bath accessories to local grocers. After securing its first license in 1994, the company has grown into the UK’s leading supplier of bath accessories and a trusted name in licensed kids’ toiletries and gifting, with top brands including Peppa Pig, Disney and Marvel. Its mission is to make bath time fun, educational and affordable with dermatologically tested formulas for children, while also bringing humour and personality to adult routines through bold, character-led products.

To accompany its rapid growth and expand licensed and non-licensed ranges, H&A is adopting Centric PLM for Cosmetics and Personal Care as a single digital platform to replace spreadsheets and disconnected tools. By consolidating product information, licensing contracts and regulatory data, the company gains full visibility and traceability across the product lifecycle.

“As our portfolio expands, we need a scalable solution to handle increasing complexity—from license renewals to formulation, packaging, artwork and compliance,” says Paul Grewer, Joint Managing Director at H&A. “Centric PLM offers a unified foundation to accelerate product launches, improve accuracy and safeguard the quality and integrity of every product line.”

With many products designed for kids, H&A places particular emphasis on safety, traceability and brand integrity. Centric PLM will reinforce these priorities by streamlining supplier collaboration and enabling smarter oversight of compliance, packaging and artwork—critical for licensed ranges where shelf impact and regulatory alignment are essential.

“Centric PLM empowers us to move faster, strengthen control and deliver consumer-ready products that meet the highest standards,” adds Paul Grewer. “It is key to both operational excellence and creative execution.”

“We’re thrilled to partner with H&A as they take this significant step in their digital transformation journey,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “Their focus on quality, creativity and sustainability aligns perfectly with Centric Software’s mission. With Centric PLM, H&A will bring products to market faster, with accuracy and efficiency.”

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H&A (www.handa-uk.com)

H&A is UK’s leading supplier of bath accessories, offering an exceptional range of high-quality essentials designed to elevate the self-care experience. From luxurious body puffs and exfoliating sponges to versatile body brushes, our products combine practicality with a touch of indulgence. Trusted by retailers nationwide, our collections are crafted to meet the highest standards, ensuring your customers enjoy a little everyday luxury.

Centric Software® (centricsoftware.com)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for cosmetics & personal care manufacturers, brands and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, package, price, allocate, market and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Centric PLM™ features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for cosmetics & personal care manufacturers and retailers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Visual Boards™ are a visually oriented product portfolio optimization tool. A singular accessible workspace pulls in real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems. It is a new, visual way of working to ensure robust, consumer-right product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
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 PXM™, AI-powered product experience management 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.