CenterStone Technologies, Inc., a Denver-based developer of Web software and services for managing sales orders, has announced a strategic partnership with Pulpsport S.A., a European sales order management provider for the sports and fashion industries. The companies intend to combine their highly acclaimed sales order management technologies to allow multi-national brands use of common order management platforms worldwide.
“This partnership provides a substantial leap forward in sales order management for our worldwide clients and prospects,” said Tom Detmer, president and CEO of CenterStone Technologies. “CenterStone and Pulpsport clients will now be able to leverage their competitive advantage across an even bigger landscape, expanding their savings and substantially increasing their revenues.”
The strategic partnership will allow CenterStones clients multi-national outdoor recreation, apparel and sporting goods brands to use common technology in Europe and North America. For large, multi-national brands this new solution will help the companies retail sales grow aggressively in overseas markets. For brands distributed only in North America, CenterStones new enhanced solution will help open doors to new European distribution.
CenterStone and Pulpsport serve more than 25 brands across North America and Europe and expect to process more than $750 million of wholesale sporting goods, apparel and footwear orders by making their combined application available to more than 8,000 specialty retail dealers, sales representatives and vendors. The expanded platform will handle preseason, reorders and employee orders in five languages including English, French, German, Spanish and Italian.
“As the market becomes more global, suppliers want to maximize efficiency in sales order management. Combining our two technologies together will bring our clients a worldwide solution with better performance and richer functionality,” said Christophe de Lussac, CEO of Pulpsport. “Its quite logical that we would partner with CenterStone, the recognized leader in North America.”
About CenterStone Technologies, Inc.
CenterStone Technologies, Inc. provides Web-based sales order management applications that give retail dealers and sales reps the ability to create proposals, view online catalogs and product availability and to place preseason, reorders, and retail employee orders more effectively and efficiently with their vendors. CenterStone Technologies makes vendors more competitive by providing increased inventory turns at retail, reduced customer service costs, and greater speed to market, improving relationships with their customers the retail dealer.
