Centric Software has been recognized in six award categories in the 2025 Just Style Excellence Awards for its contributions to digital transformation in the fashion, apparel and consumer goods industry. The company’s focus on customer-driven solutions, advanced AI integration, and workflow optimization has resulted in recognition for Innovation, Product Launches, Business Expansion, Research and Development, M&A, and Marketing.
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Centric Software won the Innovation award for advancing design tools that streamline creative processes. Its Product Launches award reflects the successful introduction of AI-driven solutions tailored for emerging brands. Centric Software’s Business Expansion award highlights its role in optimizing pricing strategies and inventory management. The company was honored in Research and Development for delivering actionable market insights that drive strategic planning. The M&A award acknowledges the strategic acquisition that broadened its digital capabilities, while the Marketing award recognizes Centric Software’s effective multichannel engagement and lead generation strategies.
Innovation in design tools: Enhancing fashion ideation and collaboration
Centric Software’s Innovation award in Design Tools category is attributed to its Centric AI Fashion Inspiration tool, which is designed to enhance the design ideation process for fashion teams. This generative AI solution is specifically trained on an extensive, proprietary dataset of more than one billion fashion product images, spanning over 800 categories and 1,000 design attributes. By leveraging this specialized data, the tool delivers high-quality, unique design concepts that reflect current market trends and consumer preferences.
A key differentiator of Centric AI Fashion Inspiration is its seamless integration with Centric PLM™, allowing design, merchandising, and buying teams to collaborate in real time. This integration ensures that AI-generated ideas are not siloed but are immediately actionable within existing workflows, reducing the friction often associated with adopting new technologies. The tool empowers both designers and non-designers—such as buyers and merchandisers—to contribute creative input, democratizing the ideation process and fostering a culture of innovation across departments.
For example, fashion teams can rapidly iterate on best-selling styles, generate variations, and explore new concepts without being limited by resource constraints. This capability is particularly valuable in an industry where speed and adaptability are critical. By significantly reducing the time required to move from concept to prototype, Centric AI Fashion Inspiration supports brands in responding quickly to emerging trends, ultimately helping them maintain relevance and competitiveness in a fast-paced market.
Democratizing advanced design: AI solutions for emerging brands
The Product Launches award in the AI: Design category reflects Centric Software’s efforts to make advanced design technology accessible to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The launch of Centric AI Fashion Inspiration for SMB addresses the unique challenges faced by emerging brands, such as limited design resources and the need for rapid product development. This solution brings the power of generative AI—previously available mainly to large enterprises—directly to smaller teams.
Embedded within Centric’s cloud-based PLM platform for SMBs, the tool enables users to quickly generate on-trend designs and variations, accelerating the ideation and development process. The AI is trained on Centric’s proprietary fashion dataset, ensuring that generated concepts are both original and fashion-specific. This allows emerging brands to fill in-season assortment gaps, capitalize on trending opportunities, and bring new collections to market faster.
For instance, a small apparel brand can use Centric AI Fashion Inspiration for SMB to create a variety of design options for garments, footwear, or accessories with just a few clicks. The tool’s intuitive interface allows both designers and non-designers to participate in the creative process, improving team communication and alignment. By streamlining decision-making and reducing the time and effort required to develop new products, Centric Software enables SMBs to compete more effectively with larger players and respond to market shifts with agility.
Maximizing profitability through smart pricing and inventory optimization
Centric Software’s Business Expansion award highlights the role of its Centric Pricing & Inventory solution in supporting financial performance for brands and retailers. This AI-powered platform is designed to optimize pricing strategies and inventory management by integrating advanced analytics, demand forecasting, and real-time market intelligence.
One of the solution’s core strengths is its ability to simulate various “what-if” scenarios, allowing businesses to test different pricing and inventory optimization strategies before implementation. For example, brands can evaluate the impact of maximizing profit versus reducing end-of-season inventory, enabling more informed decision-making. The platform’s integration with Centric Planning™ and Centric Market Intelligence™ ensures a holistic approach to managing the product lifecycle, from initial planning to final clearance.
Centric Pricing & Inventory also addresses common industry pain points such as excess inventory and markdown management. By leveraging AI-driven demand forecasting, the solution helps brands align stock levels with actual customer demand, reducing the risk of overstocking or stockouts. This not only minimizes unnecessary markdowns but also supports higher margins and improved sell-through rates. The platform’s enhanced user interface and business rules further streamline operations, delivering up to 25% faster performance for users.
For example, companies like Leder & Schuh have reported margin savings and more efficient markdown management after implementing Centric Pricing & Inventory. The solution’s ability to integrate external competitor data with internal information provides a comprehensive view of the market, supporting agile responses to changing conditions and driving overall profitability.
Turning market intelligence into strategic growth opportunities
Centric Software’s recognition in Research and Development in the Market Insights category is based on the capabilities of its Centric Market Intelligence tool. The platform provides real-time insights into market trends, competitor strategies, and consumer preferences, supporting clients in making informed, data-driven decisions throughout the product lifecycle.
Centric Market Intelligence aggregates and analyzes data from a wide range of sources, including competitor websites, to deliver actionable intelligence on assortments, pricing, promotions, market and consumer trends and best-selling products. The tool’s AI-powered competitive benchmarking and visualization features enable brands and retailers to identify gaps in their product offerings, discover opportunities for new product development, and optimize their assortment strategies.
For example, brands such as Petit Bateau have leveraged Centric Market Intelligence to fine-tune their pricing architecture and assortment breadth, ensuring that their product offerings remain competitive and aligned with consumer expectations. The platform’s integration with Centric PLM™, Centric Planning™, and Centric Pricing & Inventory™ allows users to incorporate market intelligence directly into planning, development, and pricing processes, resulting in more agile and market-responsive strategies.
Additionally, the tool’s ability to categorize and visualize related products into personalized groups saves significant time and resources compared to manual analysis. This comprehensive approach to market insights supports strategic planning, enhances R&D capabilities, and helps brands stay ahead of evolving market conditions.
Accelerating digital transformation with strategic acquisitions
Centric Software’s M&A award acknowledges the strategic significance of its acquisition of Contentserv. This acquisition has expanded Centric’s capabilities in product information management (PIM) and product experience management (PXM), incorporating AI-powered solutions that support consumer experiences across digital channels.
The integration of Contentserv’s cloud-based platform with Centric’s suite of solutions brings together PIM, digital asset management (DAM), content syndication, and digital shelf analytics. According to Centric Software, this comprehensive platform enables clients to reduce time-to-market by up to 30% and create catalogs 70% faster, while increasing the accuracy of product information by 75%. These improvements are critical for brands seeking to maintain compliance, build consumer trust, and drive engagement in a competitive retail environment.
For example, the combined solution allows brands to manage product data, digital assets, and content distribution from a single platform, streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort. The integration of AI-powered tools further enhances the ability to optimize consumer experiences across multiple sales channels, supporting higher conversion rates and improved operational efficiency.
The acquisition aligns with Centric Software’s mission to deliver innovative, cloud-based solutions that address the evolving needs of brands and retailers. By expanding its portfolio to include advanced PIM and PXM capabilities, Centric Software is positioned to support clients in achieving their digital transformation and growth objectives.
Driving industry engagement with integrated, data-driven marketing
Centric Software’s Marketing award reflects its comprehensive multichannel approach to marketing and lead generation. Marketing-sourced opportunities contribute a significant percentage to closed deals and significant growth in its social media presence, particularly on LinkedIn, where followers grew by over 150% in 12 months.
Centric’s marketing strategy leverages a variety of digital platforms, including webinars, social media campaigns, and the expansion of Centric Connect events. The number of these events grew by 125% from 2023 to 2024, providing opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and engagement with a global audience. These initiatives are designed to maximize reach and foster relationships within the industry.
The “Market Speaks” campaign is another example of Centric’s integrated marketing approach. By utilizing over 450 customer references, the company has created high-performing digital assets that drive lead generation and enhance brand credibility. This campaign, along with other digital initiatives, supports Centric’s efforts to expand its global presence and facilitate engagement among industry professionals.
Through these coordinated marketing activities, Centric Software has demonstrated its ability to generate demand, nurture leads, and support business growth.
“We are honored to be recognized once again by Just Style for our product and strategic excellence. We’re proud to be setting the pace for innovation in the industry. These awards are a reflection of Centric Software’s relentless focus on innovation and delivering best-in-class solutions that enable our customers to respond quickly to market changes and stay competitive. Whether it’s through pioneering AI tools or expanding our platform capabilities, we’re committed to empowering brands, retailers and consumer goods manufacturers — from global enterprises to emerging players — with the innovations they need to thrive.”
– Chris Grove, CEO of Centric Software
Company Profile
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, market, sell and replenish products.
- Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
- Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.
- Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
- Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitivity and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 12% increase in average initial price point.
- Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
- Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.
Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM, Centric Planning, Centric Pricing & Inventory, Centric Market Intelligence, Centric Visual Boards and Centric PXM are trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners.
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