Bamboo Rose acquires Backbone PLM
We have some exciting news to share! Bamboo Rose is pleased to announce the acquisition of Backbone PLM! Backbone provides a designer-centric product development platform that empowers retailers and brands of all sizes across apparel, soft goods, and hard goods to make products smarter, faster, and at scale. Backbone’s solution is used by innovators […]
With a viable internet connection and just a few clicks, you can find the average weight of a panda bear (answer: 250 pounds) or the GDP of the United States ($19390.60 billion). With all this information available at our fingertips, it’s ironic that retailers still can’t find a way to get accurate, timely data from […]
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