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WWRE Selected As Premier Data Pool Services Provider in Italy
WWRE Partners with Etnoteam and leading retailers in Italian retail industry to educate, enable and onboard their trading partners
Milan, Italy – Alexandria, Virginia February 2, 2005 – The WorldWide Retail Exchange (WWRE), the premier Internet-based business-to-business exchange for retailers and suppliers, today announces its most recent development in the Italian Data Pool market through a partnership with Etnoteam, the leading Italian operator of e-Business services. Etnoteam has selected the WWRE as its preferred data pool service and synchronization agent for the Italian retail and consumer goods marketplace.
” We have selected the WWRE and Etnoteam as our chosen partners to build the GDS mission-critical platform,” said Riccardo Giuliani, Chief Information Officer of Coop Italia. “Their proven ability to deliver on our commitment to GDSN, rapidly onboard our trading partners, and manage our relationship specific requirements in parallel were of particular importance to our goals for ROI with data synchronization”.
WWRE WorldSYNC Data Exchange (DX) is a global solution bringing a comprehensive service to its manufacturer and retailer users, ensuring that critical issues such data quality, connectivity to internal systems, and the ability to synchronize price, complex price and promotional data are enabled. Retailers using the WWRE platform can enjoy a single connection to their entire trading partner base. Suppliers connecting directly to the WWRE can satisfy their data synchronization requirements, not just in Italy, but globally, with WWRE’s single entry point into the GDSN and supplemental value added WorldSYNC services.
“The WWRE is excited about our growing presence in Italy,” said Yair Esrubilsky, Regional Director for the Worldwide Retail Exchange. “Our Etnoteam partnership delivers the capabilities to support the complete Italian market with a localized implementation process to more quickly onboard new users to WorldSYNC DX and navigate the evolving GDSN through a single pipe to the WWRE.”
“This partnership is a winning situation for Etnoteam, the WWRE and the Italian market,” said Gian Luca Satti, Etnoteam Distribution Sales Manager. “Working with the leading data pool in Italy will significantly advance many data synchronization projects by offering a localized implementation process and single point of access to more quickly onboard new companies to the GDSN.”
About Etnoteam
Etnoteam was founded in Milan in 1978, is the leading Italian Business Solution Aggregator for the analysis, creation and management of value added ICT solutions and services. Etnoteam offers firms integrated services of consulting, system integration, management, maintenance and monitoring of applications. In 2001 Etnoteam, true to its mission, consolidated its commitment to research and development by creating the Etnoteam Labs, operating chiefly in the field of innovative applications and mobility. Etnoteam, which has always guaranteed quality and excellence in Information Technology, operates directly or through its subsidiaries in Milan, Rome, Turin, Treviso, Pisa, Genoa, Cosenza, Helsinki (Finland) and Rio de Janeiro (Brasil). For more information, visit the website www.etnoteam.it.
About WWRE
The WWRE is the premier Internet-based business-to-business exchange for retailers and suppliers. Designed to facilitate and simplify trading between retailers, suppliers, partners and distributors, the WWRE currently consists of over 300 members and participants from Asia, Europe, North America and South America with combined sales of approximately U.S. $900 billion. To date, the WWRE has saved its members over $1.8 billion through the use its solutions. For more information, visit the website at www.wwre.org or www.worldwideretailexchange.org
The WWRE
Jane Smith
(703) 234-5208
jsmith@wwre.org
Etnoteam Press Office
+39.02.26164.480
ufficiostampa@etnoteam.it
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