Campus Outfitters Selects UTC RETAILâ„¢ Merchant Multi-Channel Enterprise Solution to Drive Performance
Rochester, January 14, 2008 – UTC RETAIL™, a leading provider of retail management solutions including software, hardware and professional services, announced today that Campus Outfitters has successfully completed the implementation of UTC RETAIL Merchant, its enterprise level multi-channel retail management solution.Multi-channel retailer Campus Outfitters is one of the nation's fastest growing school uniform companies. Campus Outfitters simplifies the uniform buying process for students and parents by offering a huge in-stock inventory of clothing custom branded for each school, premium customer service and online or on-site ordering. Selling channels include orders through their retail stores, web-site, phone, mail and fax. Campus Outfitters has taken a new and exciting approach to create another selling channel, the Road Show. Trucks filled with merchandise roll out and do about 80 road shows a year.
With a tradition of convenient hassle-free service, Campus Outfitters was looking for an enterprise management solution that addressed their immediate business needs and also provided a flexible solution to meet needs in the future. The implementation of UTC RETAIL Merchant provides them a single solution to manage their entire enterprise, across all of their selling channels. This fully integrated Multi-Channel Retail Management solution gives Campus the flexibility throughout the entire enterprise to seamlessly manage order taking, back orders, customer service, order entry, plus remote store fulfillment by routing orders to be picked up, or shipped from store inventory. With this functionality and the ability to manage the entire inventory for all their selling channels through a single database, Campus Outfitter's reputation of convenient & hassle-free service will continue to grow.
Damian Cevallos, General Manager at Campus Outfitters stated, "The entire UTC RETAIL team worked closely with us during the implementation process to understand our unique business model. The adaptations made to UTC RETAIL Merchant to support our Road Show channel allows us to maintain high service levels and provides merchandise management."
About Campus Outfitters
Campus Outfitters is an outsource solution provider to education institutions nationwide. Campus Outfitters provides solutions that enable schools to focus on their core educational mission. Campus Outfitters solutions include online textbook, school supply and full-service school uniform services.
About UTC RETAIL™
Two of the leading retail innovators have come together to form one great company. Ultimate Technology and Purple Cactus Technologies is now UTC RETAIL. Ultimate Technology, a leader in POS hardware and service solutions acquired Purple Cactus Technologies, a provider of multi-channel retail automation software in October of 2007. The result of this acquisition created UTC RETAIL.
UTC RETAIL is a leader in providing seamlessly integrated retail management solutions including software, hardware and professional services to the specialty retail market. Our retail software solutions include Multi-Channel Enterprise and Merchandising, Store Automation, Planning, Loyalty and Retail Management enabling specialty retailers to increase sales, lower costs and build competitive advantage. In addition to best in class
software solutions, UTC RETAIL provides a complete set of branded hardware solutions and comprehensive professional service offerings, providing retailers a single point of contact and accountability for all of their retail management solutions. We're UTC RETAIL. We're retail automation experts. It's all we do and we do it better than anyone else. For more information on UTC RETAIL, visit www.utcretail.com
For more information, contact Kathy Manners, Marketing Communications Specialist, at 585-742-5245 or by e-mail at kmanners@utcretail.com
