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Tilley Endurables Selects Total Retail“...Magstar understands our business.” Travel clothing maker connects multiple channels in Real-TimeToronto, October 15, 2002 - Magstar Inc. is pleased to announce that Toronto-based Tilley Endurables, Inc. has selected Magstar’s fully integrated Total Retail to replace its legacy retail, wholesale and financial systems.Tilley Endurables is an international multi-channel retailer with stores, catalog call centers and Web-store operations. The company also sells products through its wholesale division to third party retailers in Canada, the U.S., and other countries. The new Total Retail system will connect the Tilley Endurables’ North American operations in real-time over a Wide Area Network (WAN). In January 1980, Alex Tilley, founder of Tilley Endurables, decided to oversee the making of a proper sailing hat in keeping with the quality of the mahogany and teak sailboat that he had restored. Initially selling the Tilley Hat from his home, Alex expanded the product line in 1981 to include proper sailing shorts and then trousers. Successful marketing soon led to the founding of a small mail-order company, Alex Tilley and Family's Nautical Gear that has grown to become Tilley Endurables, Inc., makers of “The Tilley Hat and The Finest Travel Clothing in the World”. www.tilley.com Thurstan Berkeley, Chief Financial Officer at Tilley Endurables, said, "Managing our multiple distribution channels has become increasingly complex. Making inventory investment decisions requires timely information, which our legacy system was increasingly unable to provide. We need a fully-integrated system that will help us to effectively manage our growing businesses." "After an exhaustive vendor search, we selected Magstar and its Total Retail solution," Berkeley said. "The software fulfills our needs for integrated Merchandising, In-store Systems, Wholesale, Mail Order, Internet, Customer Relationship Management, and complete financial management for our US and Canadian divisions. And Magstar understands our business." Magstar's Director of Marketing said, "We are extremely pleased to be chosen by Tilley Endurables as its technology partner. The Tilley Endurables success story underscores the importance of customer loyalty and employee satisfaction as well as the value of retail enterprise integration." Key objectives for Tilley Endurables included ease of use and the availability of performance data for a variety of users across all channels; to foster customer loyalty and profitability through Customer Relationship Management (CRM); to improve promotional effectiveness; to optimize inventory position and move products faster for improved turns and Return On Investment; and to reduce the administrative workload throughout the enterprise. About Magstar, Inc.Founded in 1985, Magstar provides fully-integrated, enterprise-wide retail application software and professional services to a variety of small to medium-sized specialty operations in the US, Canada and the Caribbean Basin. Services include business consulting, work process analysis, custom software development, providing system hardware, installation, training, and 7x24x365 support with remote facilities management. Total Retail integrates business processes across all operational departments and divisions: Finance, Buyers, Stores, and Operations, including warehouse/distribution, call center and the Internet. As one application updates its information, related areas and functions are dynamically refreshed to provide consistent and up-to-date centralized information on demand. - 30 - |
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