Global Garden Products selects ARI to support its distributors and dealers with eCatalog Solutions

ARI Network Services — a Milwaukee, Wis.-based provider of website, software and data solutions for dealers, distributors and manufacturers — announced June 25 that Global Garden Products (GGP) will provide its complete line of lawn and garden catalogs for display in ARI’s PartSmartWeb, PartStream and PartSmart eCatalog solutions.

Based in Castelfranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy, GGP is a manufacturer of lawn and garden products, including lawn mowers, chain saws, trimmers, brushcutters and mowers. With fully owned commercial subsidiaries and representatives in most of the major European markets, GGP products are sold worldwide. Like many international manufacturers, GGP wanted a solution that would help its dealers and distributors increase online and in-store sales.

PartSmartWeb, ARI’s B2B website solution, will allow GGP distributors to enable their dealers to look up and order parts online. PartStream, ARI’s B2C electronic parts lookup solution for integration with existing websites and shopping carts, will enable visitors to a dealer’s website to look up and buy parts online, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In addition, dealers and distributors, with limited or no Internet access, will be able to use PartSmart, ARI’s desktop-based parts lookup solution, for on-demand access to up-to-date parts and pricing information at the parts and service counter.

“International customers require proven solutions designed to support the diversity of their products, markets and operations,” said Campion Jaques, director of content services for ARI. “GGP needed to deliver up-to-date parts and service content and pricing to its distributors, dealers and consumers in more than 100 countries. ARI’s localized eCatalog solutions do that exceptionally well.”

Jaques continued, “We are pleased to welcome GGP, its dealers and distributors to the growing number of international customers using ARI products and services to increase productivity and sales. As a worldwide leader in publishing, supporting and distributing value-added content for use by manufacturers, distributors and dealers, we’re confident that ARI’s eCatalog solutions will help GGP’s network of dealers and distributors ‘Sell More Stuff’ online and in-store.”