Simbe partners with Plexus to scale manufacturing, meet global retail demand
Simbe, a provider of store intelligence solutions that increase retailer performance through visibility and insights, is partnering with Plexus to bring its best-in-class retail robotics-as-a-service to market quickly and at a global scale.
This partnership has been validated through the past year's production ramp, supporting Simbe's chainwide retail deployments. It will assist Simbe’s growing operations and customer base, which spans numerous countries, enabling the company to meet interest from prospective retail partners worldwide.
Plexus is an electronics manufacturing services company that specializes in designing, manufacturing and servicing complex products and regulatory environments. Plexus partners with global, market-leading health care/life sciences, industrial and aerospace and defense companies to provide design and development, supply chain, new product introduction, manufacturing and sustaining services solutions across its 26 facilities in the AMER, APAC, EMEA, and LATAM regions.
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“Simbe is an innovative and respected leader in the retail robotics market, and we’re delighted to aid in scaling their business through our industry-leading engineering and manufacturing solutions,” said Brian Wilson, Plexus’ market sector vice president - industrial. “Our partnership bolsters Simbe’s state-of-the-art technology in support of Plexus’ vision to help create products that build a better world.”
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