1st June 2000
New Delhi, IndiaUnited Colors of Benetton Benetton is one of the first international apparel brand to arrive at India. Benetton offers casual wear for both Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter season combinations in India. The retail outlets of Benetton have been using a software developed in-house. Considering the need for continuous change and keeping pace with changes in technology, the IT department of Benetton decided to go for an outsourced product. |
At the same time, information feed-back from retailing operation was considered imperetive by the marketing department at HO. Mr Mukund, Manager - Marketing, one of the decision makers was quite clear from the beginning that the choice will have to be beneficial considering both the retailing as well as the enterprise level needs.
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The VAluepro Option Various options including getting the solution developed afresh were considered. After initial demos of the VAlueCenterpro and VAlueShoppro and a few phone calls to some of the existing users of SHOPER, the DOS-based predecessor of the decision was taken to partner with VA. Mr. Shoaib Ahmed, Director - Marketing and Mr Mukund today signed a MOU based on which the Benetton Retail Outlets totalling around 65 in India will switch over to VAlueShoppro over the next three to six months. |
