STMicroelectronics in Sicily Enables Employees to Shop On-site in Smart Store Operated by COOP and Based on WIB's Advanced Patented Technology
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
ST Catania staff enjoys world's first fully automated 24/7 smart store
implemented by WIB Srl, a start-up venture born in Sicily
Geneva, January 30, 2015 - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global
semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics
applications, announced today that its employees working in Catania (Sicily,
Italy) can now buy a wide range of products for their families' needs online and
pick them up on their way home at Coop Qui, the world's first fully automated
on-site smart store operated by WIB Machine for COOP, the Italian retail-chain
leader.
The Coop Qui store combines physical and digital sales channels, provided by
WIB, a Sicilian start-up. Its web-based approach enables customers to make
purchases on site as well as remotely from their PCs or mobile devices, choosing
from a catalogue that includes groceries, food, toiletries, and products for
home and personal care. WIB's patented technology uniquely enables automated
picking of shopping-list orders of multiple items regardless of those items'
shape, weight, and fragility. Coop Qui is designed to help ST Catania employees,
who want fresh food and top-quality goods, make and collect their purchases at
the end of their working shift 24/7, directly from the unmanned WIB automated
store located in their parking lot.
"The distribution method made available by Coop Qui simplifies the lives of
people who refuse to sacrifice quality-even without the time to shop every day.
Food offered by Coop Qui consists mainly of COOP-branded products and fresh
Sicilian produce. We fully support the smart idea of WIB that has already
managed to receive accolades from all over the world, and are grateful to
STMicroelectronics, a center of technological excellence in Catania and
innovation leader, for being the world's first to open up to this unique
project," explained Lucio Rossetto, CEO of COOP Sicilia. "COOP anticipates that
this model will be popular with consumers and can be replicated in different
locations in the city of Catania and worldwide."
WIB was created in 2013 from an idea of its founder and CEO, Nino Lo Iacono.
After completing a degree in Mechatronics Engineering at the Polytechnic of
Turin and a couple of years at FIAT Research Center, Lo Iacono decided to start
his own business in Sicily, the region where he grew up and found support from
ARCA, the business incubator of the University of Palermo.
WIB Machines represent an optimal solution to setting up an actual store, with
limited investment and low operating costs.
"We have quickly reached the market with a high-tech solution with the strong
cooperation of COOP and STMicroelectronics, who see in WIB a way to help their
employees and the community," said Lo Iacono. "Valuable feedback from among ST
employees has already provided useful suggestions to improve the quality of the
service."
"ST welcomed the invitation from WIB and COOP to provide convenience to its
employees via a machine located on site and accessible at the end of employees'
work-shift. Our 4,000 highly educated local employees, with an average age of
40 years and a large percentage with families, working in shifts around the
clock, are particularly well suited to the benefits that COOP and WIB have
introduced," said Francesco Caizzone, ST Catania Site General Manager. "ST
recognizes its role in contributing to the success of local companies through
coaching and providing the opportunity to promote brilliant business ideas and
WIB is leveraging advanced technology to improve employees' lives for a better
tomorrow."
After an initial test phase, COOP will consider the deployment of additional WIB
technology-based Coop Qui stores at other ST sites in Italy and at other leading
companies' premises.
COOP in Italy
Coop is the Italian retail-chain leader (a market share of
19.1%, 12 billion 724 thousand euro as sales volume, 1.200 sales
facilities, 54,700 employees) and its network presence spreads from the North to
the South of the country. But Coop is also a group of ventures that belongs to
more than 8 million associates with a 3.4% growth percentage compared with
2012. The consumers cooperative companies managed to create in Italy a solid and
widespread network capable of combining market logics and social commitment.
COOP in Sicily
Coop Sicilia was born in October 2014 from other Coop different experiences in
the region. Its mission is to spread and promote Coop philosophy, values and
culture in Sicilian area, contributing to the region's socioeconomic
development, in the certainty that there isn't true development without
solidarity and legality: careful and clear employees selection, suppliers chosen
on the basis of strict standards of quality and legality, a steady relationship
with the area through social and cultural events. A network composed of 7
superstores Ipercoop-branded and 15 supermarkets Coop-branded that cover a big
amount of regional area. Not considering satellite activities, Coop Sicilia has
1,184 employees and a management composed by Sicilian men and women.
About WIB
WIB Srl is a young Sicilian startup that offers an innovative e-retail system,
providing a network of automated store for retailers.
WIB merges on site purchases and e-commerce, it is able to handle a wide
catalogue of products thanks to its patented multipicking technology, it
provides to retailers a direct channel to their consumers, which can purchase
24/7.
www.wibmachines.com
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the
spectrum of sense and power and automotive products and embedded processing
solutions. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from
healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office,
at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and
innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get
more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2014, the Company's net revenues were $7.40 billion. Further information on
ST can be found at www.st.com.
For further information, please contact:
Ufficio Stampa Coop
Silvia Mastagni
mobile +39 335 7884168
Ufficio Stampa Coop Sicilia: Novaservice
Clelia Coppone
mobile +39 339 5740061
cleliacoppone(at)gmail.com
WIB
Elisa Puletto
mobile +39 344 1477460
info(at)wibmachines.com
STMicroelectronics
Michael Markowitz
Director Technical Media Relations
+1 781 591 0354
michael.markowitz(at)st.com
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