Centric Software has been recognized with five awards in the 2025 Just Food Excellence Awards for its initiatives in supporting digital transformation and operational efficiency for food and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) organizations. The company has won the M&A, Innovation, Business Expansion, Product Launches, and Research and Development awards.
The Just Food Excellence Awards honor the most significant achievements and innovations in the food industry. Powered by GlobalData’s business intelligence, the Awards recognize the people and companies leading positive change and shaping the future of the industry.
Centric Software won the M&A award for its strategic acquisition that expanded its digital platform capabilities. Its advancements in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) earned the Innovation award, while its successful global expansion through digitalisation was acknowledged with the Business Expansion award. Centric’s commitment to delivering robust PLM solutions led to recognition with the Product Launches award, and its transformative approach to digital product development secured the Research and Development award.
“We are truly honored to receive recognition across multiple domains, from product lifecycle management to product launches and global expansion. These awards reflect our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centric solutions, and industry leadership in the food and beverage sectors. They motivate us to continue pushing the boundaries of technology, transforming how our clients develop, manage, and bring products to market efficiently and sustainably.“
– Mary Haughey, Marketing BU for Food & Beverage of Centric Software
Strategic acquisition: Expanding product experience management capabilities
Centric Software’s acquisition of Contentserv (now Centric PXM), a provider of Product Experience Management (PXM) solutions, has significantly broadened the company’s offering for the FMCG, food and beverage, and retail sectors. Centric PXM’s AI-powered PXM platform complements Centric’s existing strengths in PLM, market intelligence, and planning. This integration creates a unified, cloud-based solution that covers the entire product lifecycle—from concept to commercialization.
The strategic value of this acquisition is evident in the measurable outcomes reported by customers, including a 30% reduction in time to market, 70% faster catalog creation, and a 75% improvement in product data accuracy. These improvements are particularly impactful for brands and manufacturers managing large and complex product portfolios across multiple sales channels and regions. By enabling seamless, enriched product content management, Centric Software solutions including Centric PXM, enable companies to deliver consistent, high-quality product experiences that drive consumer engagement and conversion.
Additionally, the acquisition reinforces Centric Software’s innovation culture and market leadership. Both companies share a customer-focused approach and a commitment to leveraging AI to transform product data into actionable insights. The expanded platform now serves over 1,600 customers in 90 countries, further strengthening Centric’s global footprint and ability to support digital transformation initiatives in the food and beverage industry.
Product lifecycle management innovation: Enhancing agility and compliance
Centric Software’s innovation in Product Lifecycle Management is distinguished by its rapid adaptation to market disruptions and regulatory changes. The company has introduced a suite of AI-powered modules—including PLM, PXM and market intelligence—that empower food and beverage companies to respond quickly to volatile market conditions.
For example, in response to recent global tariff changes, Centric rapidly repackaged its solutions to enable customers model real-time scenarios, simulate costs, and develop agile product strategies. These capabilities are critical for food and grocery companies facing sudden shifts in ingredient costs, supply chain disruptions, or regulatory requirements. Centric’s multi-level impact analysis allows users to instantly assess the effects of ingredient changes or regulatory updates across hundreds of SKUs, saving significant time and reducing risk compared to traditional, manual processes.
Advanced compliance tools are another area of innovation. Centric’s integration with global regulatory databases and partners such as FoodChain ID enables customers to manage compliance and sustainability initiatives proactively. The platform supports automated compliance checks, real-time regulatory integration, and future-proofs companies against evolving legislation. This is particularly valuable in the food industry, where regulations can change rapidly and vary significantly by region.
By providing actionable, technology-driven strategies and tools, Centric Software enables its customers to maintain agility, profitability, and compliance in a highly dynamic market environment.
Business expansion through digitalization: Supporting global growth
Centric Software’s recognition for business expansion is rooted in its ability to drive digitalization and support ambitious growth strategies for food and FMCG companies worldwide. Over the past two years, Centric has achieved a 57% increase in its workforce and expanded its customer base across Asia, Europe, North America, and Latin America.
The company’s solutions have been adopted by a diverse range of industry leaders, including Carrefour (France), Kasih Food Production Co. (Jordan), Dachan Food (China), The Quality Group (Germany), Teway Food (China), Starpro (China), and H&H Group (Hong Kong). These organizations represent a variety of business models, from global retailers and vertically integrated manufacturers to fast-growing startups and established brands.
Centric’s digital platform accelerates new product development, streamlines compliance, and supports international expansion. For example, Kasih Food Production Co. implemented Centric PLM to optimize compliance and quality processes, resulting in improved visibility, communication, and coordination across departments. Carrefour selected Centric PLM to strengthen its private label purchasing strategy and support its 2026 digital transformation objectives across multiple European markets.
Centric Software’s ability to support both geographical and business scope expansion positions it as a key partner for companies seeking to scale operations, enter new markets, and manage increasingly complex product portfolios. The company’s focus on digital transformation, customer support, and industry-specific functionality has been validated by multiple customer testimonials and successful implementations.
PLM solutions: Addressing industry-specific challenges
Centric Software’s approach to product launches is characterized by continuous innovation and a focus on the unique regulatory, quality, and supply chain challenges of the food and beverage sector. The company regularly delivers new, customer-driven features that enable faster, more accurate product launches and portfolio adaptations.
Recent enhancements to Centric PLM include multi-level impact analysis, which quickly identifies all products affected by a change in a single ingredient—whether due to a regulatory update, quality event, or supply chain disruption. This feature streamlines the process of assessing and managing reformulations, reducing manual effort and minimizing risk.
Other notable features include mass create/copy functionality for SKUs and advanced formulation efficiency tools, which help companies scale product lines and reduce user errors. The integration of compliance and transparency features supports customers in bringing compliant, innovative products to market more efficiently. For example, the FoodChain ID Compliance Analysis Connector enables seamless compliance evaluations using global regulatory databases.
Centric’s PLM platform also supports rapid adaptation to market disruptions and consumer trends. By centralizing product data and automating key processes, companies can quickly adjust their portfolios, launch new products, and ensure that labeling, packaging, and regulatory documentation are accurate and up to date.
Digital product development: Improving collaboration and productivity
Centric Software’s unified platform for digital product development in food industry R&D centralizes formulation, compliance, packaging, and supplier data, enabling seamless collaboration across global teams. This digital hub addresses the challenges of managing complex product development processes, especially for companies with multiple brands, markets, and regulatory environments.
Key features include multi-level impact analysis, automated compliance checks, and real-time regulatory integration. These tools allow R&D teams to proactively manage regulatory changes, and supply chain disruptions. For example, the platform’s scenario modeling and digital “what-if” analysis capabilities enable instant assessment of the impact of ingredient changes or regulatory shifts across hundreds of SKUs—a process that would be time-consuming and error-prone with less modern systems.
Customer case studies have reported up to 50% improvements in R&D productivity and up to 60% reductions in time-to-market after implementing Centric PLM. The platform also supports the development of safer, more sustainable, and compliant food products by embedding sustainability, and quality management into the digital R&D process. For instance, companies like Starpro and H&H Group have leveraged Centric PLM to increase R&D efficiency, improve product success rates, and enhance global collaboration.
By providing a centralized, collaborative, and data-driven environment, Centric Software enables food and beverage companies to innovate more rapidly, manage risk, and bring high-quality products to market efficiently.
“We are thrilled to be honored for the third year in a row by Just Food. Being recognized in five different categories—the highest number of awards we have won from Just Food to date—underscores Centric Software’s success and growth in the food industry, speaking to innovation, agility and responsiveness.”
– Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software
Company Profile
From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled product lifecycle management platform for food & beverage manufacturers, grocery, brands and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, package, assort, market and sell products. Centric Software solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Centric PLMTM features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, retailers and food service providers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, nutritional labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
- Centric Visual BoardsTM are a visually oriented product portfolio optimization tool. A singular accessible workspace pulls in real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems. It is a new, visual way of working to ensure robust, consumer-right product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
- Centric PXMTM 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.
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