American Golf Picks Up Prestigous Fast Track Technology Award
Leading golf equipment retailer American Golf, has picked up the prestigious Profit Track100 award for business technology, sponsored by Microsoft, at this years annual Sunday Times Pricewaterhouse Coopers Profit Track100 awards dinner, held at The Langham Hotel, London, on Tuesday 6th June.
American Golf’s recent £1m upgrade to its stock-control and till systems, handled by retail systems specialists K3, has reduced time spent on deliveries by 75% and enabled the introduction of a customer loyalty card. American Golf has a turnover of £65m in 2005.
The implementation was handled by retail systems specialists K3, the largest Microsoft Dynamics partner in the UK, which implemented the system across the company’s 63 stores in the UK.
The £1,000K end to end solution covers all business functions including a fully integrated EPoS solution, Financials, Inventory Management, Warehousing and Distribution. The system includes head office (60 users) and there will be approximately 2 tills per store. American Golf currently has over 350 employees.
Following a period of expansion, the existing in-store system was no longer meeting American Golf’s business requirements or supporting the growth of the company. K3 was selected to overhaul the IT systems, using solutions based on the award winning software, Microsoft Dynamics.
Ged Gould, American Golf Finance Director commented. “We are thrilled to win this award and are very pleased with our working relationship with K3. We feel we found a supplier who could give us what we needed and helped us grow our bottom line through increasing business efficiency. We now have a system that is at the cutting edge of retail technology and meet the needs of our rapidly expanding business.”
K3’s Sales Director, Paul Makin commented, “We are delighted that American Golf has been honoured with this award. This has been a very successful implementation and the company has seen an immediate benefit to the business following the implementation”.
Britain’s 100 companies with the fastest growing profits were honoured at the seventh annual Sunday Times Pricewaterhouse Coopers Profit Track 100 awards dinner. The winning companies included the makers of goods from vacuum cleaners to flood barriers, highlighting the breadth of enterprise in British industry today.
The owners and directors of the majority of companies on the Profit Track 100 league table, which ranks the 100 private companies with the fastest growing profits over the last three years, gathered together for the event. They heard presentations from Sir Keith Mills of the Loyalty Management Group and deputy chairman of London’s 2012 organising committee, Will Whitehorn of Virgin Galactic, legendary entrepreneur James Dyson, and The Sunday Times editor, John Witherow.
Notes for editors:
The league table
Now in its seventh year, The Sunday Times PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 annual league table is compiled by Oxford-based research, publishing and events company Fast Track. The full findings were published in a special 20-page colour supplement with The Sunday Times business section on 2 April and on the internet at www.timesonline.co.uk/profittrack100 and www.fasttrack.co.uk.
Fast Track
Fast Track is the Oxford-based independent research, publishing and networking events company that tracks Britain’s top-performing private companies and the entrepreneurs who own and run them.
In addition to the Profit Track 100, it also publishes in partnership with The Sunday Times the Fast Track 100 league table, which ranks companies with the fastest growing sales; the Tech Track 100 which ranks the fastest growing private tech companies by sales; the Top Track 250, which ranks Britain’s biggest middle-market private companies by sales; and the Top Track 100, which ranks Britain’s biggest private companies by sales.
Fast Track was founded and is run by Dr Hamish Stevenson, who is also an
associate fellow of Templeton College, Oxford University.
www.fasttrack.co.uk
www.pwc.com/uk
About American Golf
American Golf is Europe’s number one specialist golf retailer with
63 managed and 8 franchise stores. The team at american golf ‘love
golf’ with an average handicap of 7 and 1 in 10 playing off scratch.
www.Americangolf.co.uk
About K3
K3 the largest Microsoft Dynamics partner in the UK and Ireland delivering the powerful Dynamics Retail Solution. A Microsoft Certified Gold partner and member of Microsoft’s Inner Circle the company services over 100 clients worldwide. K3 is part of the K3 Business Technology Group plc.
K3 Business Technology Group is a global leader in providing next-generation enterprise software for businesses in the Retail, Manufacturing and Distribution sectors. Over the past 25 years, K3 has gained a wealth of experience from implementing Enterprise Resource Planning and business software solutions across over 3000 sites in over 30 countries. K3 is recognised as a safe, innovative and reliable provider of world-class solutions built around standard Microsoft technologies, backed by world-class service.
All K3’s implementations employ a personalised and sometimes customised
approach depending on size, timescales and key business issues.
www.k3btg.com