Morrisons Selects Galleria’s Complete Product Suite

Dec. 12, 2011 - PRLog -- Galleria Retail Technology Solutions, the leading provider of retail and category optimization solutions, today announced that Morrisons, the UK’s fourth largest food retailer, will utilize its complete product suite to automate its merchandising strategy. A Galleria customer since 2008, Morrisons will continue to use Galleria’s Customer-Centric Merchandising Solution and will also implement Intelligent Store Optimization, Behavioural Cluster Planning, Store Operations Workbench and Galleria Foundation Services in more than 400 stores across the UK.

“With more than 11.5 million shoppers each week, our goal is to optimize our selling space in every store and ensure that we have an appropriate assortment to meet our individual customer needs” said Andrew Plews Head of Trading Systems Development Controller at Morrisons. “Galleria offers us a complete, single-source solution to automate our merchandising processes across both Macro & Micro space planning in support of our objectives”

•   Galleria Foundation Services is the central hub for data repository including, business process, workflow management and security. In addition Galleria Foundation Services provides the perfect platform for integration with legacy and third party systems
•   Behavioral Cluster Planning will allow Morrisons to cluster categories and stores based on actual customer shopping habits, highlighting opportunity gaps and providing the products that they really want.
•   Intelligent Store Optimization, an automated decision support application, will enable Morrisons to optimize and manage macro and micro space on a store-specific level. Morrisons can re-proportion space at any level to quickly understand the financial impact of change on their bottom line via a transparent “what if” analysis.
•   Customer-Centric Merchandising will enable Morrisons to execute a customer-centric merchandising strategy across hundreds of categories in full recognition of the constraints applied by the supply chain, each store’s inventory requirements and in-store space.
•   Store Operations Workbench will enable Morrisons to intelligently deliver information to their stores, via a web service utilizing the very latest Microsoft technology. Store plans, space plans, category and operational information will be delivered and conversely Store Operations Workbench will provide the perfect forum for the stores to feed information back to head office.

“Morrisons is a forward-thinking retailer dedicated to using technology to streamline business processes to provide its customers with a first-class shopping experience,” said Ian Duncan-Lewis, CEO, Galleria.

“We are delighted that we are able to expand our partnership to provide our full range of retail and category optimization solutions. We are confident that the implementation will enable Morrisons to improve its customer experience, maintain a competitive advantage and achieve a fast return on investment.”

About Galleria Retail Technology Solutions

Galleria is the leading provider of retail and category optimization solutions. With its comprehensive product suite, Galleria provides customer-focused solutions for clustering, automated assortment and space optimization supported by detailed analytics and reporting tools designed to meet the needs of retailers and CPG vendors and manufacturers. The net result is that users realize significant benefits including: increased sales, enhanced margins, reduced waste/mark-down and accelerated inventory turns. Galleria’s flexible solutions can be hosted by Galleria and/or operated as both desktop and integrated solutions. Galleria currently works with many of the world’s leading retailers including Asda, Giant Eagle, Morrisons, MVideo and One Stop . For more information about Galleria, visit http://www.galleria-rts.com or dial 01270 824 444.

About Morrisons

Morrisons is the fourth largest supermarket group in the United Kingdom. There are currently more than 470 Morrisons stores across the country, welcoming more than 11.5 million shoppers each week. The retailer currently employs more than 132,000 members of staff in stores, factories, distribution centres and head office administration.

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Matt Serra
Mulberry Marketing Communications
312-664-1532
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Galleria is the leading provider of retail and category optimization solutions. With its comprehensive product suite, Galleria provides customer-focused solutions for clustering, automated assortment and space optimization supported by detailed analytics and reporting tools designed to meet the needs of retailers and CPG vendors and manufacturers. The net result is that users realize significant benefits including: increased sales, enhanced margins, reduced waste/mark-down and accelerated inventory turns. Galleria’s flexible solutions can be hosted by Galleria and/or operated as both desktop and integrated solutions. Galleria currently works with many of the world’s leading retailers including Asda, Giant Eagle, Morrisons, MVideo and One Stop . For more information about Galleria, visit www.galleria-rts.com or dial 1-866-899-0852.