Groupe Chantelle 'completely transforms' business practices with Box cloud collaboration tools

French lingerie company deploys Box across its marketing and manufacturing teams to help modernise its business

Global French lingerie designer and fashion house Groupe Chantelle has deployed Box cloud collaboration tools across its marketing and manufacturing teams to help modernise its business with improved internal and external information sharing.

Founded in 1876, Groupe Chantelle now has 6,200 employees and its high-end lingerie, corsetry and swimwear products are sold in over 10,000 stores across the globe.

Now Group Chantelle has selected Box to speed up the design-to-production cycle of its clothing, and improve external file-sharing in a way that enables intellectual property to remain securely protected.

The Box deployment is also designed to aid staff by enabling them to work anywhere from any device through the use of mobile and cloud collaboration software.

"Box is helping us to bridge communications between our design and concept teams in France and Asia and our global network of manufacturing plants," said Fabrice Chevron, IT methods and end users manager at Groupe Chantelle.

"We've completely transformed the way we work on content, and we've become much more collaborative and productive as a result," he added.

Jeremy Grinbaum, regional vice president for France and southern Europe at Box, welcomed the partnership with Groupe Chantelle.

"French companies in all sectors are moving away from restrictive, legacy architecture as they look for more agile and efficient environments for employees," he said.

"Groupe Chantelle is an excellent example of a French institution that has moved to Box to power collaboration and enable people to work in entirely new ways," Grinbaum added.

Box now has more than 40 million users at more than 50,000 organisations across the globe.

One of those is the University of Dundee and Paul Saunders, chief technology officer (CTO) and IT director, recently told Computing how students have benefited from the cloud collaboration software.

"They use Box for pretty much everything, including development of a MOOC [massively open online course] called 'Identifying the Dead', which we already have 15,000 signed up for. All of the development for that MOOC took place through Box," Saunders said, before describing how an incremental rollout is gaining traction across campus.

"We wanted to start lightly to make sure we knew what we were doing and could control it. Now, we're looking at how we can use it for most of our senior team meetings, which are recorded through Box," he added.

Another Box customer is Coca-Cola, which recently announced the rollout of the cloud collaboration platform internally across its 22,000 employees.