Three-year extension includes new access to industry-leading services across ECi platforms
Deerfield, IL – December 17, 2014 – – United Stationers and eCommerce Industries Inc. have signed a three-year agreement to extend their collaboration to continue to deliver innovative digital ecommerce tools for resellers. The agreement sets in motion extended integration of United’s digital services into a number of ECi’s ecommerce platforms, providing resellers access to winning e-commerce tools both now and into the future.
Under the terms of the agreement, United Stationers will offer upgraded SmartSearch™ and premium relationship functionality to customers utilizing the ECinteractive® Plus, D-Force II plus and Red Falcon™ (formerly known as Red Cheetah™) platforms. The agreement also opens the door to additional SmartMerchandising™ and advanced analytics capabilities that will greatly enhance the online shopping experience for independent resellers’ customers. The collaboration road map includes developing capabilities for re-targeting based on previous shopping patterns, browsing or cart abandonment as well as future multivariate testing capabilities to optimize performance of digital merchandising and marketing.
“We are pleased to have this agreement in place with ECi,” said Girisha Chandraraj, Vice President, Digital at United Stationers. “It allows us to immediately improve our dealers’ access to best-in-class search and cross-selling capabilities on ECi’s state-of-the-art ecommerce platforms while working together on additional enhancements over time to help them simply sell more online.” Harry Dochelli, Senior Vice President, Sales and Customer Care added “This is just one more step forward in our efforts to help our customers win online. We continue to make significant investments in our digital capabilities – and now they can be easily integrated with a large portion of our customer base.”
“We are excited about our ability to continue to deliver superior value to our dealers,” said Ron Books, President and CEO of ECi Software Solutions. “The ECi platforms, along with the next- generation content and capabilities from United, provide a powerful solution for our customers. We look forward to rolling up our sleeves to enable our mutual customers to compete and win.”
About United Stationers
United Stationers Inc. is a leading supplier of business essentials, with 2013 net sales of $5.1 billion. The company stocks a broad assortment of over 140,000 items, including technology products, traditional office products, janitorial and breakroom supplies, office furniture, and industrial supplies. The Company’s network of 77 distribution centers allows it to deliver these products to approximately 25,000 reseller customers. This network, combined with United’s breadth and depth of inventory, enables the Company to ship most products overnight to more than ninety percent of the U.S. and major cities in Mexico and Canada. For more information, visit unitedstationers.com. United Stationers common stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol USTR.
About ECi
The ECi Software Solutions family of companies provides business and e-commerce solutions, offering on-premise and cloud-based technologies. For 30+ years, ECi’s companies have served the manufacturing, service technology, office supplies, contract office furniture, lumber and building materials, hardware and jan/san sectors. Privately held, ECi is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, USA, with offices and companies throughout the U.S., Australia, England and the Netherlands. For information, email info@ecisolutions.com, visit www.ECiSolutions.com , or call (800) 959-3367.
