High fashion is big business. Ask Randa Accessories.
Established in 1910, Randa is the world’s leading men’s accessories company, creating and marketing soft goods including ties, belts, hats, gloves and much more. The Company has operations in 11 countries on five continents—and continues to grow.
Given Randa’s size and reach, the Company generates and transmits lots of data: financial information, legal contracts, product photos, sales forecasts, marketing material, personnel files and lots more. Employees had traditionally relied upon email to send this information to employees and trusted external partners, knowing all along there had to be a better option.
“We wanted to maintain [Microsoft] Outlook for its primary purpose—a messaging server—and find a more efficient way to securely share files as a company,” shared Charlie Townsend, Randa’s Chief Technology Officer.
In its search for a solution, Randa learned of kiteworks and, upon seeing its streamlined dashboard, numerous administrative capabilities, and ease-of-deployment, the decision was clear: kiteworks fit Randa’s needs like a glove.
The kiteworks installation was quick and seamless. While initially rolled out to a select number of departments and end users, rumors of the solution’s many capabilities and ease-of-use spread to other departments. As a result, the number of users has almost doubled since the solution was deployed last year. Townsend confirms, “a clear indicator of kiteworks’ ease-of-use is its widespread popularity across so many of our departments. The user count keeps going up—climbing every day.”
Today, kiteworks plays an integral part in the daily operations of nearly all of Randa’s departments. For example, Finance uses kiteworks to share corporate development materials for the Company’s many M&A transactions. US and UK-based employees who work in Design share product photos with one another. Members of the Product Marketing team use kiteworks to send sales and product presentations—some exceeding 100MB in size.
Townsend summarizes the value kiteworks brings to Randa poignantly: “kiteworks makes our teams stronger, enabling our associates to better share and edit information and work together as groups.”
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