Tony's Chocolonely Expands Internationally with the Descartes Global Logistic Network
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
AMERSFOORT, The Netherlands, May 16, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Descartes Systems
Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive
businesses in commerce, announced that Tony's Chocolonely, one of the
Netherlands' leading chocolate brands, is using the Descartes Global Logistics
Network(TM) (Descartes GLN) to support expansion into the United States of
America by streamlining electronic communications and order-to-cash processes
with retailers.
"To accelerate our mission of making the cacao industry 100% free of slave
labour, we needed to grow our business in the USA given the significant demand
for chocolate and the presence of key players in the chocolate industry in that
market," said Frans Pannekoek, 'Bean to Bar tender' and responsible for the
Supply Chain at Tony's Chocolonely. "Electronic communications standards are
different in North American and Europe. As an existing Descartes customer, we
were able to quickly augment our existing Descartes GLN deployment to implement
the new protocols and message sets to effectively communicate with our
international retail and distribution customers in the USA."
Descartes' GLN is one of the world's most extensive multi-modal electronic
communications networks, connecting thousands of parties in more than 160
countries. It helps streamline, automate and standardize multi-party buy, sell,
ship, and pay processes. These processes can involve a broad range of data
elements and business documents that often span the buyer and seller of goods,
transportation providers, logistics intermediaries, customs authorities and
other supply chain participants across different geographies and levels of IT
sophistication. Coupled with Descartes' extensive experience in on boarding and
activing trading partners, GLN customers can quickly benefit from improved
operational performance, reduced costs, and the agility to better satisfy
customers.
"We're very pleased to support growth at Tony's Chocolonely by providing
business-to-business connectivity and full visibility of their logistic
processes from their operations in Belgium to their retailers in the USA," said
Fred van der Heide, VP Product Management at Descartes. "Growth via
international expansion is an important, yet challenging, endeavour for many
companies. Descartes' GLN was designed to help companies manage their global
commercial, logistics and customs processes as they grow."
About Tony's Chocolonely
Tony's Chocolonely exists to end slavery in the chocolate industry. The
Amsterdam based social enterprise envisions 100% slave free chocolate and grew
out to be the second largest chocolate brand in the Netherlands. Tony's
Chocolonely was founded in 2005 by Dutch journalists when they discovered the
world's largest chocolate companies were buying cocoa from plantations that used
child slavery. They turned themselves into the police as "chocolate criminals"
who had purchased and eaten illegally manufactured products. Tony's Chocolonely
has since dedicated its efforts to educating people about the inequality in the
chocolate industry, as well as creating its own chocolate bar as an example of
the reality of slave free chocolate. As part of the company's traceable bean-to-
bar concept, Tony's Chocolonely has built direct, long-term relationships with
the farmers in Ivory Coast and Ghana who grow its cocoa to solve the underlying
causes of modern slavery.
Learn more at www.tonyschocolonely.com.
About Descartes
Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand,
software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity,
performance and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Customers use our
modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track and measure
delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay
transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security
documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics
processes by participating in the world's largest, collaborative multimodal
logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we
have offices and partners around the world. Learn more at www.descartes.com, and
connect with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of
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Descartes' solution offering and potential benefits derived therefrom; and other
matters. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
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across Canada including Descartes most recently filed management's discussion
and analysis. If any such risks actually occur, they could materially adversely
affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. In that case,
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Global Media Contact
Mavi Silveira
Tel: +1(800) 419-8495 ext. 202416
msilveira(at)descartes.com
Media contact EMENAR
Renate Kok
Tel: +31 33 4606200 ext. 640073
rkok(at)descartes.com
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