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VusionGroup announces today a multifaceted international partnership with StrongPoint to accelerate the digitalization of physical commerce by introducing leading end-to-end physical e-Commerce solutions. Together, both companies will enable stores to leverage their technologies to fulfill e-Commerce orders directly from their existing premises with greater efficiency, ensuring higher profitability.
The partnership will be built on the cutting-edge technologies designed by VusionGroup (EdgeSense, VusionCloud, VusionOX, and Captana), which provide the essential Retail IoT solutions needed for seamless and efficient in-store picking. StrongPoint brings its end-to-end e-Commerce platform solution and services to the partnership, designed to facilitate online order processing and operational management for e-commerce orders.
Combining VusionGroup and StrongPoint’s solutions, retailers will enhance their in-store picking performance, as associates will be guided through the store with precise item localization enabled by EdgeSense. At the same time, Captana will ensure that products remain consistently available for consumers, as well as for e-commerce orders. This partnership will not only enhance store efficiency and performance but also ensure a seamless and comprehensive customer experience from shelf to bag to customer.
StrongPoint and VusionGroup’s partnership will create opportunities for sustained revenue growth for retailers, enhanced performance, workforce retention, and a positive local business impact for existing stores. Empowering stores with these end-to-end e-Commerce capabilities also reduces the need for new warehouses, significantly minimizing capital expenditure and carbon emissions.
“This partnership is an incredible opportunity for StrongPoint to bring its e-commerce solutions to an international stage, reaching regions far beyond our core markets. For StrongPoint, as a VusionGroup partner, it will allow us to offer our current and future customers across our nine markets an even broader range of in-store digital retail technologies. This is truly a milestone moment in the history of StrongPoint,” said Jacob Tveraabak, CEO of StrongPoint.
“Enabling physical retailers to increase their e-Commerce performance through store digitalization is one of the key pillars of our strategy, and this partnership represents a wonderful opportunity to accelerate that. By integrating StrongPoint’s e-commerce technology into our platform, we are not only enhancing our offering but also enabling our customers to unlock new levels of efficiency, profitability, and growth potential in a rapidly evolving retail landscape,” said Sébastien Fourcy, SEVP EMEA of VusionGroup.
About StrongPoint
StrongPoint is a grocery retail technology company that provides solutions to make shops smarter, shopping experiences better, and online grocery shopping more efficient. With approximately 500 employees in Norway, Sweden, the Baltics, Finland, Spain, the UK, and Ireland, and together with a wide partner network, StrongPoint supports grocery and retail businesses in more than 20 countries.
StrongPoint provides end-to-end e-commerce solutions, including in-store order picking, automated fulfillment (with AutoStore), click & collect temperature-controlled grocery lockers, and in-store and drive-thru grocery pickup solutions. The company also delivers a range of in-store technologies, such as electronic shelf labels, AI-powered self-checkouts, and cash management and payment solutions. StrongPoint is headquartered in Norway and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange with a revenue of approximately NOK 1.4 billion [ticker: STRO].
About VusionGroup
VusionGroup (ex- SES-imagotag) is the global leader in the digitalization solutions for commerce, serving over 350 large retailer groups around the world in Europe, Asia and North America.
By leveraging its IoT, AI & Data technologies, VusionGroup empowers retailers to re-imagine their physical stores into efficient, intelligent, connected, and data-driven assets. The Group unlocks higher economic performance, facilitates seamless collaboration across the value chain, enhances the shopping experience, creates better jobs, cultivates healthier communities, and significantly reduces waste and carbon emissions.
VusionGroup consist of six families of solutions, harnessing the full potential of IoT, Cloud, Data, and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, at the service of the modernization of commerce: SESimagotag (ESL & Digital Shelf Systems), VusionCloud, Captana (computer vision and artificial intelligence platform), Memory (data analytics), Engage (retail media and in-store advertising), and PDidigital (logistics and industrial solutions).
VusionGroup supports the United Nations’ Global Compact initiative and has received in 2023 the Platinum Sustainability Rating from EcoVadis, the world’s reference of business sustainability ratings.
VusionGroup is listed in compartment A of Euronext™ Paris and member of the SBF120 Index. Ticker: SESL – ISIN code: FR0010282822 – Reuters: VU.PA – Bloomberg: VU.FP
