TM Lewin Plans Expansion with Prologic

TM Lewin Plans Expansion with Prologic

£1.68 million contract awarded following extensive consultancy

Berkhamsted, Herts 4th September-, 2007¾Prologic, the business solutions provider for fashion and lifestyle, today announced a contract win with TM Lewin with an initial value of £1.68 million. The shirt retailer has selected Prologic’s CIMS enterprise software to assist it in achieving ambitious expansion plans and follows a thorough consultancy project last year.

TM Lewin, currently operating over 50 stores throughout the UK, plans to open a significant number of new stores over the next three years and expand overseas. The implementation project will take place over three phases over the next 18 months following an intense definition stage which involved documenting all existing business processes and the processes that will be adopted using CIMS. As well as growing stores, TM Lewin anticipates using Prologic to expand its online sales and use diverse channels to reach the market through wholesaling and franchising.

Commenting on the award of the contract, Mike Trotman, Finance Director of TM Lewin said: “We are confident that this integrated system will give us complete control of our business and will support our dynamic growth in the future. Prologic has a good record of supporting fast growth retail companies and can supply the IT infrastructure on a scale that is appropriate to TM Lewin’s current and future needs”.

“I am particularly pleased to announce this contract win as it demonstrates the success of our consultancy led approach, which leverages our business skills into fashion and lifestyle retailers at an early stage. This strategy provides real value for a potential client enabling them to secure expert advice from fashion industry specialists before making any system commitments. Within the fashion and lifestyle sector, Prologic continues to consolidate its position as the business systems supplier of choice,” explains Sam Jackson, Managing Director of Prologic.

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About Prologic
Prologic provides integrated IT solutions only for the fashion sector. Prologic integrates merchandising, warehousing, distribution, allocation, replenishment, sourcing and point of sale into a single central database – Prologic CIMS. By investing in product development and industry knowledge specific to the fashion and lifestyle sector, Prologic enables its customers to maximise business opportunities. Prologic can simply supply software or take on the entire management of customers’ IT systems. Established for 21 years, Prologic has successfully deployed its software with many of the UK’s best known fashion companies including Ted Baker, Paul Smith, Hobbs, Dune and Fat Face.

More information can be found at www.prologic.net

About TM Lewin
TM.Lewin was founded in 1898 when Thomas Mayes Lewin opened his first shop, a gentleman’s shirtmakers, in Jermyn Street, St James’s, London. Early in its history, TM Lewin acquired a reputation for quality and design and soon became recognised as the leader in its field, attracting local, national and international customers. Innovation has always been important to the firm and nearly 100 years ago its founder became one of the first to make the ‘coat-shirt’, the groundbreaking idea of a shirt with buttons down the front. TM Lewin has now evolved from a shirtmaker and now supplies classic suits along with a range of modern casuals, shoes and accessories.

For additional information:

Dominic Potter
Prologic
+44 (0) 1442 876277
dpotter {at} prologic(.)net

Lucy Saunders
Mahseer
+44 (0) 777 5566074
lucy.saunders {at} mahseer.co(.)uk