Loop Insights Announces Reseller Partnership And First Sale With Vend, A Global POS Company Used In 25,000 Stores Across 140 Countries

Loop Insights Inc. (TSXV: MTRX) (the “Company” or “Loop”), a provider of contactless solutions and artificial intelligence (“AI”) to drive real-time insights, automated marketing, and contact tracing to the brick and mortar space, is pleased to announce the signing of a channel reseller partnership with global cloud-based Point-of-Sale (POS) company, Vend, as well as, the first sale to a Vend client.

VEND UNLOCKS ACTIVE OPPORTUNITIES IN $5T GLOBAL RETAIL INDUSTRY

Vend is the first POS built for iOS and is now used in over 25,000 stores across 140 countries. Vend’s fast growth and global reach creates opportunities across the world for Loop and its technology in the retail vertical.  To this end, the companies have already secured the first implementation at a Vend client, Wild Birds Centers of America Inc. – a North American aviary retail franchise with 30 stores – and subsidiary of Global Harvest Foods Ltd.  Loop plans on widening the scope of opportunity Global Harvest Foods.

Furthermore, Vend is already in discussions with several other retail chains and both companies expect to announce additional implementations in the near future.

Loop Insights CEO, Rob Anson stated “This is a significant partnership for Loop given the fact both companies offer cloud-based services that provide a strong foundation for rapid scalability and growth. We are both driven to acquire multi-store clients to drive faster, larger adoption rates. As seen by our first implementation with Wild Bird Centers of America, VendHQ is already demonstrating huge value to Loop as a channel reseller. With active conversations already taking place with many of Vend’s global clients, our goals for global penetration into retail are already taking shape.”

Jake West, Director of Business Development at Vend stated “We are beyond excited to be partnering with Loop Insights to provide our retailers with robust, enterprise-level tools.  With COVID 19, Vend has seen an increase in the number of mid-market and enterprise retailers that are moving to Vend to take advantage of modern, cloud-based technology. Loop Insights is a perfect complement to Vend’s platform, in that, collectively we are able to deliver enterprise & franchise reporting tools, deep product insights and even trends on consumer behavior to our retailers. Vend has long had a partner focused approach, where we partner with the best-of-breed companies like Loop to deliver our clients with an overall superior experience.

LOOP’S SOFTWARE INTEGRATION CREATES SCALABLE CHANNEL RESELLER OPPORTUNITIES

The addition of Loop’s API provides Vend clients the unique ability to connect transactional data across all physical retail locations and e-commerce platforms for single stores, multi-store franchises, and international enterprise retail customers. The companies will first integrate Loop’s powerful insights service at Wild Bird Centers of America—a franchise with 30 retail stores in Canada and the United States; Loop plans on widening the scope of opportunity to its umbrella company, Global Harvest Foods Ltd.

Without the need for hardware, Loop Cloud delivers a frictionless implementation process that allows for large-scale adoption and, ultimately, adds high margin revenue-generating power to Loop’s current Software as a Service (SaaS) revenue model. As a channel reseller for Loop’s technology, the companies anticipate revenue from onboarding fees and SaaS fees. Loop’s software API integration also supports seamless access to its other AI-driven services: automated personalized engagement and programmatic advertising. The addition of these services would increase the clients’ monthly SaaS fees, and add additional revenue for Loop through distribution/redemption of third-party promotions.