Adapt wins Greencore Group deal
Lyceum Capital-backed Adapt, the independent IT managed infrastructure provider, has signed an exclusive contract with international convenience food retailer Greencore Group to transform its IT services.
Greencore has 12,000 employees and 25 manufacturing sites in the UK and the US, serving all of the major UK retailers and convenience stores in the US. The deal will allow Greencore to capitalise on the efficiencies of Adapt, reducing data centre costs, and will allow it access to competitive gains afforded by the latest enterprise technologies.
Adapt’s Habitat software will provide Greencore with the ability to tier its service platforms to satisfy customers’ changing usage profiles with three main levels — Consume, Perform and Exceed. This flexible design means that Greencore can rapidly scale resources with demand.
Scotty Morgan, chief sales officer at Adapt, said: “We are very proud that Greencore has selected Adapt as a technology partner to support the next exciting phase of their growth. Our Habitat proposition offers businesses with shifting priorities like Greencore, high efficiency targets and ambitious growth trajectories with the freedom to rethink and reshape their environments over and over as they expand and change — and helping these businesses win in their markets is what it’s all about for us.”
Chris Smith, head of infrastructure at Greencore, added: “Our business involves multiple channels and requires deep logistical planning — our core applications are absolutely critical to the delivery of Greencore’s proposition. We went through a very thorough RFP process, assessing three service providers in detail. We finally selected Adapt and its software-defined Habitat for its elastic capability and ongoing alignment with our business, however we grow and change in the future.”
Lyceum invested in Adapt in 2011.