- Major order for GK SOFTWARE AG
- First joint project for the strategic partnership between SAP and GK SOFTWARE AG
GK SOFTWARE AG will deliver important modules covering retail store management and connectivity for 6.000 EDEKA stores as a partner of SAP.
GK SOFTWARE AG has won its first major order as a result of its strategic partnership with SAP. With solutions for store device control and offline enabled mobile store processes the Schöneck-based company will implement two important retail store applications for the large EDEKA project Lunar. SAP has recently begun marketing these two software solutions on the basis of a reselling partnership.
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Company profile GK SOFTWARE AG: GK SOFTWARE AG is one of the leading technology developers and providers of standard software for the retail sector in Europe and has an extensive range of products for stores and enterprise headquarters. As a result of its open software solutions in the GK/Retail Suite, which can be used with any platform and is fully programmed in Java, the company has es-tablished itself on the market as a leading provider of technology and innovations. The software provides ideal business organization for retail companies with many stores and therefore offers significant potential for cost savings and customer loyalty programs so that companies can increase their competitiveness. The company employs 294 members of staff (figures for 30 June 2009) at company head-quarters in Schöneck and four other business locations in Berlin, St. Ingbert, Plzen (CZ) and Basel/Riehen (CH). GK SOFTWARE AG can list well-known German and foreign retail com-panies among its customers, including Galeria Kaufhof, Parfümerie Douglas, Coop (Switzer-land), EDEKA Hannover-Minden, Hornbach, JYSK Nordic, Lidl, Netto Marken-Discount and Tchibo. The software is currently being used in 25 countries at 57,000 POS units in approx. 13,500 stores in Germany and abroad. The company has grown rapidly during the past few years and its sales revenues totaled EUR 15.0 million in 2008. GK SOFTWARE AG achieved EBIT of EUR 2.8 million (EBIT margin of 18.5% on total operating revenue). The two founders and Management Board members, Rainer Gläß (CEO) und Stephan Kronmüller (CTO), in conjunction with the Management Board members Ronald Scholz (COO) and André Hergert (CFO), have made GK SOFTWARE AG a profitable company with strong growth since 1990.
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