Home Hardware Selects MessageWay for Retail Network Advanced Managed File Transfer (MFT)

MessageWay Solutions(TM), a leading provider of Advanced Managed File Transfer (MFT) software, today announced that Home Hardware, Canada’s largest independent home improvement retailer, has selected MessageWay® for Advanced Managed File Transfer (MFT). MessageWay will be used to manage the exchange of electronic files between more than 1,000 retail outlets and the Home Hardware order processing and replenishment systems.

Brent Horst, Home Hardware’s Director of Corporate Applications shared, “Our Dealer-owners are the core of our business and we’re constantly looking for ways to improve the quality and timeliness of the services we provide them. The lion’s share of our information exchange with partners is through electronic file transfer and we saw a number of opportunities to improve our service levels by enhancing our capabilities in that area.”

After a thorough evaluation process, Home Hardware chose MessageWay. “We found that many of the other solutions we looked at required us to change the way we do business,” said Horst. “MessageWay gave us much more flexibility to address the file exchange requirements for our retailer network without having to change our business processes. As an added benefit, we also see more opportunities to extend MessageWay into our supplier community.”

Greg Faubert, MessageWay President and CEO noted, “Home Hardware was very disciplined and methodical in their evaluation, and they had a well-defined vision of how a managed file transfer solution should fit into their business model. That played right into MessageWay’s strengths. Our service-oriented architecture enabled them to adapt the solution to match their business environment and processes, not the other way around.”

About Home Hardware

Home Hardware Stores Limited is Canada’s largest independent hardware, lumber and building materials and furniture retailer with more than 1,000 stores across Canada, under the Home Hardware, Home Building Centre, Home Hardware Building Centre and Home Furniture banners. Dealers have access to 100,000 quality brand name and private label products and the company has annual retail sales of $4.8 billion. The cooperative was founded on January 1, 1964 by 122 independent hardware Dealers.

About MessageWay

MessageWay Solutions is a leading provider of Advanced Managed File Transfer (MFT) solutions that modernize and consolidate IT assets, centralize control, and streamline business processes around B2B file exchange. From purchasing to payment processing to logistics tracking throughout the supply chain, the company’s premiere suite, MessageWay, provides secure, end-to-end control over enterprise file exchange inside and outside the firewall. MessageWay Solutions works with Global 2000 organizations in banking and financial services, logistics and supply chain management, and government agencies. Leading customers include the State of Michigan, ArcelorMittal, Fidelity, Barclays Bank, Schenker Logistics, and the United States Postal Service. For more information, visit http://www.messageway.com.