The Montreal Impact soccer team went live on Raymark’s store, merchandising, and reporting solutions at their home opener on March 17th. There were 58,912 fans in attendance, surpassing the record for the largest crowd for a pro soccer game at the stadium! With many of those fans eager to commemorate the team’s induction to Major League Soccer with some souvenir merchandise, Raymark’s point of sale terminals were kept very busy processing transactions throughout the day.  Raymark congratulates the Montreal Impact both for their induction to the MLA and for drawing such a huge crowd to their home opener. Here’s to a great season!

Raymark is pleased to announce that the Montreal Impact soccer team has selected its store, merchandising, reporting, web integration and mobile solutions to be deployed across all its Montreal boutique locations, including the Olympic Stadium and new Saputo Stadium scheduled to open in June 2012.

“The 2012 Montreal Impact season will be the club's inaugural season to Major League Soccer, the top flight of North American soccer,” says Stéfanie Bureau, the Montreal Impact’s Branding and Merchandising Director. “We were searching for retail solutions that could support all the ventures we plan to launch in accordance with our newfound involvement in Major League Soccer. Only two weeks after signing with them, Raymark had already successfully deployed their solutions in one of our stores, reinforcing our belief that we had made the right decision by selecting them. Raymark’s proven retail expertise, local Montreal presence and innovative, reliable products are the reasons we chose them as our software partner going forward.”

“Raymark is excited that the Montreal Impact has entrusted us with fulfilling their retail solution needs at such an important juncture in their history,” states Marc Chriqui, Raymark’s President. “We look forward to forming a strong, lasting relationship with the franchise and to supporting their retail endeavors for years to come. Together, I think we make a winning team.”

Full deployment across all Montreal locations is scheduled for March 2012, coinciding with the first game of the season.

Raymark is pleased to announce that the RMN-Grand Palais is its newest client, with over 40 locations including the Louvre in France.  The RMN Grand Palais is a world class, international organizer of expositions and cultural productions with museums across France including the Museé Orsay and Château de Versailles has selected Raymark’s retail software Xpert-Series™ 2012 to manage its network of museum library-boutiques. 

Details of the licensing agreement include the use of Raymark’s Store solution to manage point of sale and store operations.  “Raymark is privileged to have a client as prestigious as the RMN-Grand Palais.  We are proud to be a part of this world renowned franchise by offering Raymark’s proven enterprise solutions for their network of museum boutiques,” says Jean Francois Codron, Vice President, Raymark.   

Raymark’s solutions provide the RMN-Grand Palais with the ability to:

·         Manage different products such as books, jewelry, textiles and souvenirs in one database.

·         Control the replenishment and data flow of multiple library-boutiques from one single location.

·         Manage mobile store sales during expositions or cultural events.

To read more, click here.  For more information on the RMN-Grand Palais, please visit www.rmn.fr.

Raymark is featured in the October 2011 issue of Integrated Solutions for Retailers Magazine as part of a case study on valued client, Light Bulbs Unlimited. The case study “Single Database, Simple Integration Pave Way for Growth” showcases how Light Bulbs Unlimited overcame their struggles of working with eight disparate retail platforms by choosing Raymark’s integrated retail solution.

Jake Gersowsky, CFO of Light Bulbs Unlimited and its owners evaluated eleven retail enterprise software providers, and ultimately selected Raymark’s Xpert-Series™ retail management software. The system was chosen for ease of integration to their financial systems and because of the customized, accurate reporting available. This was vital to Lightbulbs’ success, as Gersowsky says, “data accuracy and solid reporting are improving the continuity of the business, and we’re confident that’s increasing our valuation.”

Click here to view the full case study. 

On September 9th, 2011, Raymark attended ST. JOHN's Spring 2012 Presentation during New York Fashion Week.  Held in the luxuriously modern interior of their newly opened Fifth Avenue Boutique, the atmosphere perfectly complimented the color palette of cream, platinums and a whisper of pale cosmetic colors, featured in the new collection. Inspired by renowned singer/songwriter Carly Simon, the collection received compelling reviews from New York fashion's finest, seen here on the ST. JOHN Blog.

Senior Account Manager for Raymark, Norbert Altenstad, who attended the event, was inspired by the fresh look and feel of the store and signature designs. He said, “ST. JOHN has found a perfect fit with Raymark. The implementation of Raymark's POS solution will enable ST. JOHN to provide luxury levels of customer service synonymous with this luxury location."

Find out more about why ST. JOHN chose Raymark or to learn how Raymark's retail suite could benefit your business; visit the solutions area of our website.

Armor-Lux, a specialist in knitwear, chooses Raymark’s ERP retail Xpert-Series™ to manage its distribution chain. Xpert-Series™ will be installed in over 40 stores in France to centralize operations and improve efficiency.

Xpert-Merchandiser™, Xpert-Replenishment™, for inventory and replenishment tasks and Xpert-XEIS™, multi-dimensional reporting module will be installed to improve back office operations. Raymark’s CRM module will also be implemented providing additional customer centric functionalities to the existing Xpert-Store™ point-of-sale software. Read more...

Work ‘N Gear is the largest U.S. retail chain that specializes in providing customers with a wide variety of apparel and footwear for the service, industrial and healthcare environments. It operates 43 retail stores throughout the Northeast and Midwest, with new facilities planned for the year ahead.                                                

Recently, Work ‘N Gear launched a new store-in-store (SIS) business model called Scrubology inside selected Sears and Kmart centers.

The company is working with CSC to implement new enterprise systems to support the SIS initiative and new websites for Scrubologyshop.com — launching shortly — on the Raymark Xpert Series Suite™ integrated with e-commerce powered by AspDotNetStorefront. The Raymark Xpert Series Suite and its components include home office functions such as merchandising, accounting, business intelligence analytics, distribution, replenishment assortment planning, open to buy, promotion management, CRM, and warehousing.

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For 15 years Raymark has provided Stollerys, one of Canada’s leading men’s and women’s department stores with effective store operations, merchandising and reporting solutions. Not one to be left behind the times, Stollerys recently upgraded from Raymark’s Posis store operations system to Raymark’s fully integrated, real-time Xpert-Series™. The system will provide additional functionality for Stollerys including the ability to capture in-depth product properties and attributes, use multiple exchange rates and implement in store promotions. Particular benefits to the company include the ability to add multiple size dimensions in one product code, and advanced alterations capabilities at the POS which are both significant to Stollerys’ high end apparel and service offering.  Marc Chriqui, Raymark’s President said, “The 15 year relationship between Stollerys and Raymark is testimony to Raymark’s commitment to its customers and their continued development and success.” 

Raymark, a global leader in enterprise retail software solutions, is pleased to announce the addition of American luxury fashion brand St. John to its prestigious clientele.

Products selected are Raymark’s real-time store solution for managing point of sale and back-office operations including electronic payment, advanced promotions and reporting. St. John has chosen Raymark’s Xpert-Series™ suite as a key component of their retail information technology strategy to streamline store operations, deliver outstanding customer service, and improve store sales growth...read the full article in our news section.

The RIS News Software Leaderboard, often referred to as the Oscars of retail technology, has once again named Raymark among the top 20 "most valuable vendors" in the retail software industry. Based primarily on customer satisfaction levels, the 2010 RIS Software LeaderBoard has more charts and breakouts than ever before, and also features the opinions of more retailers who submitted more vendor evaluations. IT vendors making it into the RIS 2010 Software LeaderBoard are members of a very exclusive club.

In addition to achieving a coveted Top 20 spot overall, Raymark also ranked in the Top 10 for Customer Satisfaction Leaders by Apparel Retailers, Leaders in Specialty Retail, Mid-Size Vendor Leaders, and Leaders in Administration/Maintenance By Mid-Size Retailers.

We are proud to be considerd among the leaders in our industry again this year and are pleased to be referred so highly by those who matter most to us - our customers.