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Sydney, Australia, May 26, 2009 – Hewlett-Packard (HP) today announced its first Australian retail rollout of the HP rp5700, its retail point-of-sale (RPoS) PC, with The Body Shop Australia. The Body Shop will be implementing the rp5700 across most of its 80 stores in Australia over the next two years. This countrywide rollout started this month with 116 PCs due to be installed by the end of FY 2009/10 and a further 80 in the following year.
The Body Shop needed an exceptionally stable and highly-reliable RPoS PC for its demanding business environment. The Body Shop’s current technology was disparate and having several different PC configurations meant maintaining the store PoS environment was not always straight-forward.
The Body Shop was looking for a product that had longevity in design, and brand reputation on its side. It also needed to have the flexibility to customise the PoS solution to specific requirements.
The Body Shop turned to its trusted technology partner, GunPoS Pty Ltd, to find the most appropriate technology. Trevor Perry, Sales Director of GunPoS, suggested the HP rp5700 to fulfill this brief as it was the stand-out performer in testing against its competitors. GunPoS working with HP customised a standard rp5700 RPOS PC to give The Body Shop a reliable performer suited to their needs.
“The HP rp5700 has come to market in Australia at the perfect time, as this is a great solution to meet The Body Shop’s needs,” said Trevor. “Energy efficiency is a must as PoS systems need to be on and running 100 percent of the time”. The rp5700 has been designed to have the latest energy efficient components as well as being engineered to withstand the rigors of the retail environment.
The HP rp5700 provides as standard an 80 per cent efficient power supply that is up to 15 per cent more efficient than standard PC power supplies, reducing both overall energy usage and the amount of waste heat released into the environment.
“We seek to always implement a reliable, robust and fully effective IT infrastructure. The HP rp5700s fits in very well and the installation of the first 30 PCs this month has gone smoothly,” said John Bartlett, IT Retail Systems Manager at The Body Shop. “We particularly like the fact that this is a flexible PoS box that has easily integrated with our existing software and PoS peripheral systems.“
Robert Bergqvist, Market Development Manager, Retail Point of Sale Systems, HP Australia, said, “This is a great example of how the rp5700 can be used in the retail space. HP’s RPOS offers the reliability of Intel® and Microsoft Windows® technologies and available SATA hard drives with RAID support to offer customers PC technology that easily integrates with back-office infrastructure. We are looking forward to helping The Body Shop Australia complete this rollout and integration through to next year.”
About GunPoS
GunPoS is a privately owned Australian point of sale (PoS) and information technology reseller. It specialises in PoS for retail, providing hardware, software and support services for any size deployment including nationally recognised retailer brands. More information is available at www.gunpos.com.au or www.gunposit.com.au.
About The Body Shop® Australia
The Body Shop® Australia is a fully Australian owned company. Owned by the Wise family, Graeme Wise opened the first Australian store in Melbourne in 1983 - since then more than 80 stores have been opened across Australia and the company is continuing to grow. The Body Shop® Australia is part of the larger international business. More information is available at www.thebodyshop.com.au.
About HP: HP, the world’s largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com.au.
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