Canterbury Cathedral chooses Futura-Software for it´s strong Business Intelligence

Pangbourne, 22 November 2010: It costs Canterbury Cathedral over £10,000 every day to maintain the Cathedral and its services, so the online store, high street and Cathedral gift shops need to be highly profitable. The gift store’s General Manager Chris Needham has chosen to upgrade to Futura’s retail management system for its business intelligence and ability get the right stock in the right place at the right time. 

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Greenwoods menswear choose Futura´s Retail Technology to underpin expansion

Pangbourne, 1 December 2010: Greenwoods Menswear Ltd have chosen Futura as their technology partner, not only to replace their old system in 79 stores with the latest real-time technology, but also for their planned 100+ future stores and to run the stock allocation for their new website.

Karen Wang, Information Director of Greenwoods said: "With Futura the information will be rationalised into one place so will be accurate and totally up to date, all our product lines, stock levels and branch performance will be visible in real-time.   Futura Analyser, their data mining tool, will give us weekly and daily flash reports to enable us to monitor sales and margin performance by product and by branch so we'll have much better control of the business."
Greenwood's new cash injection and technology investment allows them to move from a 20 year old system to the latest retail technology, to vastly improve their merchandising and stock control capabilities.  They will be using Futura's "open to buy" facility to improve flexibility and allow merchandisers to buy smarter and so continue to offer customers competitive prices.  
Greenwood's COO, Neil Roberts added: "With everything that is happening in the business, it was important for us to choose the right retail partner. As well as Futura's technology having all the functionality we need, it's their support and management people we found really impressive - these are people we can really work with."

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Customer feedback from DalyDress Egypt

"Beginning in the 1980s, D A L Y D R E S S has grown from what was initially a wholesale business to one of Egypt’s best loved and most successful clothing retailers.
We now have 45 D A L Y D R E S S, PREMODA and DERHY stores across the country and are actively seeking to grow the brands further in coming years locally and globally by opening new fabulous shops with the New Store Concept in great locations.
We spent about 6 months to evaluate new sophisticated local & multi-national retail systems in-order to replace our old existing retail software. An expert committee of MIS, Retail Business Development, Merchandising and Finance were involved on this project named (Dalydress Retail System Future).
Finally, on 20th of March 2008 we selected Futura Retail System as the best choice.
Implementation started on 1st of May 2008 with an expert project manager and implementers from Futura International with concept of “Implementation with Knowledge Transfer”.
During 4 months all our back office and shops where running in live environment.

NOW we are able to get much information that lead to better business. Special offers, Price changes, Replenishment and Budgeting are examples of the most important functions in the system with a very smart and user friendly features. I can assure that statistics in FuturERS is one the best techniques done in any software I have ever seen. All of these functions really have impressive impact on any company's business.

I, as an MIS manager for more than 15 years, recommend FuturERS for anyone who seeks smart, intelligent, user friendly and most of all retail business development."

Ayman Ahmed El-Kotb
MIS Manager
STA

Carraig Donn chooses FuturERS for expansion

Carraig Donn, one of Ireland’s top retailers and knitwear manufacturers has chosen Futura’s  EPOS software and retail management system to provide a stable and dynamic tool to help drive the business forward and to strengthen merchandising and inventory control. The investment by the Group will be in the region of € 300k.

It is anticipated that the new system will be central to the export-led expansion plans of its knitwear manufacturing company as Futura’s strengths in inventory reduction, customer data capture, the use of historic data to predict trends, capturing buying behaviour were key reasons for selection. 

The Group, which recently added another new store at MacDonagh Junction in Kilkenny, has 20 high street and premier shopping centre locations throughout Ireland, showcasing the best of Irish and international designer fashion, lifestyle giftware, accessories and jewellery.  To support Carraig Donn’s continuing expansion operation and to increase business efficiencies the Group required a reliable IT provider and a robust EPOS system which will be used initially across 45 new touch screen tills.

Welcoming this announcement Managing Director of Futura Retail Solution Ltd. Ian Royall said:  “We are delighted that such a national prestige brand as Carraig Donn chose the Futura EPOS system. This system is in place in top international retail brands including Tommy Hilfiger, Crew Clothing, Oliver Bonas and Cath Kidston.” 

A spokesperson for Carraig Donn confirmed: “We chose FuturERS because it continues to push the boundaries of what an EPOS system can deliver; with innovative modules and measurable return on investment. Helping to speed up the customer buying experience, enhancing customer service and the fact that it’s a cost effective and quick to learn solution were key factors.”

App lets managers check on sales figures on the move, Alworths tries it out

A new apps from retail solutions company Futura Retail Solution AG lets managers who are out and about check on sales figures and other head office data from their mobiles, as companies increasingly embrace mobile in the management of retail outlets. Leading retailer and Woolworths replacement Alworths has tried it out and finds it gives quite a boost to morale and productivity.
Designed for busy managers on the move, Futura4Phone will enable users to interrogate their head office data to see overall performance figures or to drill down into sales of specific lines, promotions or individual store performance to whatever detail they require.
Initially available for Blackberry and iPhones, Futura4Phone provides the missing link for managers who need to know how their business is performing when away or out of contact.
Futura’s research has shown that most senior management travelling, or on leave, call their offices at least once a day for the most up to date figures. Allowing managers to access this live information directly means they will be in a better position to respond to changing conditions without having to take key staff from their duties.
If potential problems are spotted, managers can then quickly email or call staff to take remedial actions, who will also have access to this data at Head Office. Having instant information in a manner that they find valuable will allow managers to make better informed decisions, faster and allow them to stay in control at all times.
Trialling the Futura4Phone application Andy Latham, MD of Alworths said: “Futura4Phone gives me live, up to the minute sales and other management information while I am out of the office. This enables me to keep up to date with company performance and to instigate actions in line with performance; it creates a business environment that is able to react to the changing wants and needs of our customers in the most cost effective way.”
Latham added: “It’s great knowing you can be anywhere and be confident that you know how your business is performing in real time. All this, without having to rely on members of your team producing and sending you the information. This frees them up to do what is most important: to act on the information available rather than spending time producing it.
Futura4Phone works by connecting mobile phones via the internet to the head office server, which is constantly collecting all live shop and stock data in the Futura system.
CEO’s not using Futura as their shop system can also use the technology if their retail system passes all branch data to their Head Office live or on a trickle fed basis.
Managing Director of Futura Retail Solutions Ltd Ian Royall said: “In line with our perpetual drive to provide innovative value added products and services to our customers we are delighted to be at the first retail system supplier to embrace this mobile technology so extensively.”
Futura4Phone is available immediately to Futura customers priced from £400 plus installation, maintenance and support. For users of other POS systems prices are available on application. The system is flexible allowing additional functionality to be defined by the client.

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