March 18th, 2024

Centric Software Wins Three Just Food Excellence Awards for the Second Year in a Row

Centric solutions for food & beverage are a repeat triple Just Food award winner for 2024 for R&D, Business Expansion and Sustainability

CAMPBELL, Calif. March 18, 2024– Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader is pleased to announce that it has won three Just Food Excellence Awards 2024 in the categories of Environmental – Sustainability, Research & Development and Business Expansion. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell food & beverage, cosmetics and consumer products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

The Just Food Excellence Awards is a widely known, independent awards program powered by the business intelligence of GlobalData. Tina Ross, Global Awards Manager at Just Food says, “Our team of researchers and journalists, along with Artificial Intelligence, analyzes over 1 billion datasets during the year to recognize, endorse and rank top-tier companies and their achievements in 200+ countries.”

Centric Software launched their Food & Beverage division three years ago, so winning the Business Expansion category award is especially impressive. Ross says, “The company is noted for having a significant number of customers in multiple geographies like Brazil, Finland, China, UK, US, Italy, France, Australia and more; the rapid adoption of Centric PLM™ by retail grocery and food & beverage companies; and more than doubling staff at Centric.”

Ross continues, “In the R&D category, Centric Software’s agility in rapidly developing and integrating new features tailored specifically for the retail grocery and food industry impressed the judges as well as the forging of strategic partnerships with food & beverage industry platforms like FoodChain ID and Bizcaps.” Also noted was the integration of regulatory databases to provide comprehensive PLM solutions that enhance efficiency, compliance and innovation in food product development.

In the Environmental – Sustainability category, Centric Software is recognized for the functionality of Centric PLM that enables sustainability initiatives, environmentally sound sourcing and features in PLM that support the development of green products.

Ouarda Hamadi, Global Business Development Director remarks, “We are grateful to be recognized for our accomplishments in food & beverage, a vertical that is growing rapidly for us. Sustainability is an important aspect of any industry, but notably food. We are proud to be able to contribute to mitigating GHG in the food industry.”

Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software says, “We are rapidly expanding in the food & beverage and retail grocery sector with leading brands, retailers and producers adopting Centric solutions. It is particularly meaningful for us to be acknowledged for the second year in a row by the Just Food Excellence Awards.”

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About the Just Food Excellence Awards (www.just-food.com/excellence-awards/)

The Just Food Excellence Awards is an independent recognition programme powered by the business intelligence of GlobalData. Their team of researchers and journalists, along with Artificial Intelligence, analyse over 1 billion datasets during the year to recognise, endorse and rank top-tier companies and their achievements in 200+ counties.

The Just Food Excellence Awards is one of the largest, most prestigious, and widely recognised programmes throughout the industry. It is a valuable part of our platform which is the voice of authority in the industry. Our objective is to recognise forward-thinking, innovative companies that drive positive change in the industry.

The focus of the programme is the following Areas of Excellence: Business Expansion, Diversity, Environmental, Financing, Innovation, Investments, M&A, Marketing, Product Launches, Research and Development, Safety and Social.

Centric Software® (https://www.centricsoftware.com/)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management platform for food & beverage manufacturers, grocery and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, buy, make, package, assort and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Centric PLM™ features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, retailers and service providers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, nutritional labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Visual Boards™ are a visually oriented top-down/bottom-up product portfolio optimization tool. Real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems are brought into a singular accessible workspace, creating a new, visual way of working for all teams to ensure robust, well-balanced global/regional product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.

Centric Software maintains a 100% go-live rate and has received awards for excellence from Just Food, Just Drinks, Business Awards UK, Frost & Sullivan and many other regional accolades. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solutions, backed by the best team and to partner with the best customers.