Canada's Largest Furniture Retailer Further Aligns Itself With GERS Retail Systems and Purchases Gers' Sequel System.San Diego--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1998--MikeDan Brothers, a franchise retailer of Leon's home furnishings furnishings the extra type or quantity of hair on the head, tail, ears or legs, specified for a particular breed. For example, the feathers in setters, the beard in Bearded collies, the eyebrows in Schnauzers. , has purchased the GERS Sequel System to simplify its daily operations. The single store location is located in Moncton, New Brunswick New Brunswick, province, Canada New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. , and is one of many retail operations within the Leon's vast organization, the largest home furnishings retailer in Canada. While Leon's corporate has been a GERS client for many years, this is the second Leon's retail franchise to purchase the GERS system. The retailer will be using the GERS Sequel Base Package, and the Point-of-Sale (POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale ) and Sequel Flash modules. MikeDan Brothers is eagerly awaiting the benefits of their recent conversion to the GERS system. "I'm looking forward to increasing the amount of control we will have over our inventory," said Danny Leon, President of MikeDan Brothers. "We also hope the system will improve the quality of information gathered for merchandising merchandising Element of marketing concerned especially with the sale of goods and services to customers. One aspect of merchandising is advertising, which aims to capture the interest of the segment of the population most likely to buy the product. decisions." This franchise operation of Leon's has been in business for nine years and sells furniture, appliances and home electronics and is run by MikeDan Brothers. "To have the GERS name affiliated with the largest furniture retail operation in Canada is exciting," said Dennis Conforto, Vice President of GERS. "We are confident they will have as much success with our system as Leon's Corporate which will hopefully open the door for other Leon's franchise stores to purchase the Sequel System to increase their efficiency and productivity." Built within an Oracle relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. to facilitate optimal growth and flexibility, the GERS Sequel System, a comprehensive management tool, alleviates retailers of manual tasks by providing real-time automation of integral daily tasks such as sales, inventory, merchandising, and accounting. Optional modules allow retailers to expand their system to incorporate hot new technologies including Radio Frequency Warehousing, and Sequel Truck Routing Interface. San Diego-based GERS Retail Systems provides fully integrated, Open Systems computer solutions software, hardware, and comprehensive training for hardlines, softlines, department stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. , Home Furnishings retailers, and Consumer Electronics/Wireless retail operations. CONTACT: GERS Retail Systems Shelley Boswell or Deborah Gordon Deborah Gordon (born 1955) is a biologist at Stanford University, profiled in the New York Times Magazine. Major research Gordon studies ant colony behavior and ecology, with a particular focus on Red harvester ants. Her views have brought her into public conflict with E. , 800/854-2263 |
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