Top 10 Retail Tech Solution Companies in Europe - 2019
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Top 10 Retail Tech Solution Companies in Europe - 2019

Retailers are always on a hunt for something that can help them connect better with the customers. And, this is the reason why the retail industry has seen such a massive transformation in previous years.

There was a time when retail was solely dependent on marketing activities to grab customers’ attention but, things have changed. Now, the retail industry is dependent more on technology. Marketing is obviously important but, tech-oriented marketing is the future of this industry. To that end, cutting-edge technologies like IoT, big data analytics, and AI are helping retailers in the optimal arrangement of products, which has a massive impact on sales conversion rate.

While technology is shaping the retail sector to such extent, CIOs are often facing a barrage in selecting the right technology strategy as the information about retail technologies and trends are inherently mystic. Unlocking the secret code of this challenge, retail tech solution providers are duly supporting businesses in defining their retail strategy and selecting the right technology use cases and tools to achieve the desired outcomes.

As an effort to help retailers strengthen business capabilities and enable growth in the retail industry, Retail CIO Outlook has compiled a list of ‘Top 10 Retail Tech Solution Providers in Europe – 2019.’ To further substantiate the technological advancement in the retail tech realm, CIOs working in the industry have penned their insights about new innovations, industrial happenings, and their advice to the aspiring CIOs seeking for it.

We present to you Retail CIO Outlook’s, “Top 10 Retail Tech Solution Providers in Europe – 2019.”

Top Retail Tech Solution Companies in Europe

Established in 2014, BlooLoc has a solution for accurate indoor positioning, called yooBee. The solution is self-calibrating and does not rely on fragile RSSI fingerprinting. It continuously adapts to environmental changes. yooBee can position both smartphones and active tags and is tuned for a range of applications, such as large-venue navigation, person and asset tracking, person flow analysis for retail applications. Some of the sectors that yooBee is employed include retail, healthcare, smart building and offices, logistics, large locations, and entertainment

www.blooloc.com

Ciklum is a Danish innovative IT outsourcing company specializing in nearshore software development in Eastern Europe, in Ukraine and Belarus. Ciklum’s unique business model merges the human element with IT to not only help companies to grow but provide ongoing resources that sustain growth with the flexibility to scale up or down as markets shift. The business’s clients can gain control over their IT processes and systems and get more value from the resources they already have. Additionally, Ciklum also provides project-based services and peak resources on a short-term basis to accomplish particular tasks efficiently and with superior quality

www.ciklum.com

Focus on providing fiscal-related solutions and services backed by well-choreographed support throughout the process for international retailers in various countries

www.fiscal-solutions.net

Mobilosoft provides a range of Web-to-Store and local marketing solutions to enterprise companies—brick & mortar retailers, local agencies that work with SME, and directories, and other types of publishers targeting SME. The business develops software containing four significant hubs: location management, E-Reputation, community management, and local advertising. Mobilosoft provides solutions including Presence Management on International media (Google My Business, Apple Maps, TomTom, Waze) and local directories and apps (yellow-page companies, shopping apps, opening hours directories), store locators, product and promo locators, local advertising, near-field wifi & beacon technologies, local DMP, programatic media buying on a local perspective

www.mobilosoft.com

The unique platform has earned RetailSonar a thriving clientele. For instance, companies from the banking industry approached RetailSonar to optimize their branch networks in accordance with the current digital age. “Even though it was a massive challenge, we helped our clients spot the perfect locations where they were more accessible to their customers,” highlights Pieter-Jan De Smet. With RetailSonar, companies can stay relevant to the current trends and make decisions that are strategic, smart, and cost-effective. In other instance, RetailSonar enabled hearing aid stores to over-perform and create an optimal hearing aid network for the future

retailsonar.com

Vispera has the vision to make image recognition a commodity service for the whole retail sector. Founded in 2014, their goal is to make their image recognition-based data analytics services and platforms become power tools for retailer and supplier companies worldwide. Vispera is a privately held company headquartered in Levent, Istanbul. Vispera partners are extended teams with a common goal of providing the clients with perfect field execution services. The company offers computer vision, machine learning, image recognition, retail execution and auditing, R&D, and retail. They can build innovative business models to serve the whole retail sector flexibly

www.vispera.co

Gambio

Gambio

Gambio is the e-commerce platform for professional online retailers. Gambio offers all the functions, interfaces, and options that make up a successful online shop. More than 20,000 dealers are already thrilled by Gambio. The path of Gambio from a small North German start-up to a helper of over 20,000 successful online shops all over Germany. Since the foundation, they have been careful to grow steadily and solidly. Gambio offers all the features to successfully sell online: A modern, visually appealing shop system with a wide range of functions, connected to all major marketplaces and payment systems and optimized to best search engine rankings

HMY

HMY

HMY is a leading group in the engineering, manufacturing, and fitting of standard and bespoke retail furniture. The business also offers brand and retail consulting, design and architectural services, site and project management, general contracting, and tech solutions. HNY aims to provide clients with innovative products and services, which, in turn, create a memorable shopping experience for customers. With headquarters in France and 60 years’ experience, HMY has already worked in over 160 countries with luxury, premium, lifestyle, masstige, and mass-market brands in various retail formats and sectors

myPOS World

myPOS World

myPOS provides integrated and affordable payment solutions, changing the way businesses accept card payments across all channels - at the counter, online, and via mobile devices. Their mission is to empower every enterprise to reap the benefits of innovation and modern technologies, solve payment challenges, and grow in new and powerful ways. By combining the latest payment technologies with imagination and expertise, myPOS create a new world of payments, built on innovation, freedom, flexibility, and opportunities for growth. Operating in all EEA countries, myPOS is available in 16 languages and offers customer support in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Russian, Greek, and Bulgarian

RELEX Solutions

RELEX Solutions

Founded in 2005, RELEX Solutions is a provider of cutting-edge retail optimization software that’s built for the age of Living Retail, where change is the only constant. RELEX help retailers adapt to every future, faster. The company offers retail planning, supply chain planning, demand forecasting, automatic replenishment, space planning, assortment planning, inventory management, promotion optimization, markdown optimization, planogram optimization, retail & supply chain analytics, workforce optimization, merchandise planning, and many more services. Their customers leverage this enhanced supply chain visibility into exponential benefits, optimizing their space, allocation, workforce, pricing, and promotion strategies, all within their unified platform