(pressebox) Schöneck, 10.02.2009, GK SOFTWARE AG has received an order from the food retail company Lidl to supply its new store software for the complete network of Lidl stores, which are spread over twenty European countries.
GK SOFTWARE AG will supply the software for the POS and background systems in stores across Europe and the software for store management. Lidl has been using a version of GK SOFTWARE AG’s DOS-based POS software since the end of the 1990s. This will now be completely replaced by the modern Java-based software, GK/Retail.
Rainer Gläß, CEO at GK SOFTWARE AG comments: "We are very proud to have renewed our business links with Lidl in the long term, after providing it with services for many years. This not only demonstrates the competitiveness of our software, but also the successful partnership that we have maintained over the past few years."
Lidl Company Profile
The Lidl supermarket trading company is one of the leading brands in the food sector and is part of the Schwarz group of companies based in Neckarsulm (Baden-Württemberg). The company now has business operations in more than twenty different countries at approx. 8,000 stores.Über GK SOFTWARE AG
GK SOFTWARE AG is one of the leading developers and providers of standard software for the retail sector in Europe and it provides a comprehensive range of products for stores and enterprise headquarters. The company has established itself as a leading technology and innovation provider on the market by using the open software solutions provided by its GK/Retail suite, which can be operated on any hardware platform and is completely programmed using Java. The software allows store-based retail companies to have access to the best possible operating organization options and as a result they are able to exploit considerable potential for cost savings and increase customer loyalty in order to enhance their competitiveness.
The company currently employs 199 members of staff at its headquarters in Schöneck (D) and at four other business centers in Berlin, St. Ingbert, Plzen (CZ), and Basel/Riehen (CH) (figure on 30 September 2008). GK SOFTWARE AG has well-known German retailers as its customers, including Galeria Kaufhof, Parfümerie Douglas, Coop (Switzerland), ESCADA, EDEKA Hannover-Minden, Lidl, Netto Markendiscount and Tchibo. The company’s software is currently being used in 24 countries at approx. 55,000 POS units in approx. 12,500 stores in Germany and abroad. The company has grown rapidly during the last few years and its sales in 2007 totaled ? 10.75 million. GK SOFTWARE AG generated EBIT of ? 2.33 million (EBIT margin of 20% related to total operating performance). The two company founders and board members, Rainer Gläß (CEO) and Stephan Kronmüller (CTO), in conjunction with the other board members, Ronald Scholz (COO) und André Hergert (CFO), have made GK SOFTWARE AG a profitable company with strong growth.
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