Basel, St. Ingbert, 4 November 2008 – StoreWeaver GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of GK SOFTWARE AG, is opening its new competence center in St. Ingbert in the German state of Saarland. This provides the company with an attractive business location in the south-west of Germany, a region, which traditionally has strong links to the retail and IT business sectors.
Exactly twelve months after its launch, StoreWeaver GmbH is opening its first business location in Germany. After the company’s headquarters were established in Basel in Switzerland, the competence center of the 100% subsidiary of GK SOFTWARE AG has now been set up in St. Ingbert in the state of Saarland.
The company will use St. Ingbert primarily as an innovation and conference base. StoreWeaver GmbH will also be able to use the outstanding potential provided by retail IT specialists in the region.
The new competence center will in future handle further developments of all-round solutions provided by StoreWeaver GmbH in the complex business area of store integration. The Competence Center in St. Ingbert will also have one other major focus: merchandise management processes for retail companies based on mobile data capture devices. The implementation of the concepts will continue to take place in close collaboration with the parent company, GK Software AG. This means that StoreWeaver GmbH can rely on the comprehensive expertise of the German market leader for retail IT solutions.
- About StoreWeaver GmbH:
StoreWeaver GmbH was set up in Basel/Switzerland in 2008 and is a 100% subsidiary of GK SOFTWARE AG. The company develops the all-round integration platform known as StoreWeaver, which is used to link up all the subsystems in a store and provide end-to-end integration from enterprise headquarters to stores. Various elements of the modular solution are already being employed at major retail customers using GK SOFTWARE AG products. StoreWeaver GmbH has now acquired its first customer: Coop Switzerland. www.storeweaver.com
