Andertons Music Co with Sparkstone make a big hit at London International Music Show

June 2009 and the largest music show in Britain arrived at the Excel Centre London. As one of the leading lights of the Music Retail industry Andertons were there in force. It was an amazing 3 days.

“…With Sparkstone we were able to install and network 4 points of sale all linked to our warehouse distribution facility via a simple broadband connection at the show." said Lee Anderton, managing director of Andertons.

"Not only were we able to sell from stock at the show and take orders for dispatch but, all of the orders were immediately (live) transmitted to our warehouse, not one order was lost and all orders were shipped as soon as the goods were received…”

"we knew what was in our warehouse live"

“…we took sales on 4 good-looking tills, all linked to a local database and communicating with the warehouse at the same time, we even knew what was in our warehouse live – no re-keying of data on return, no delays, and full analysis of our performance – we were able to fully concentrate on building relationships with customers. Sparkstone enables us to sell however we need to, wherever we are.”

Simon Kinsey of Sparkstone comments “Doing a mobile event should be no different from operating a temporary bricks and mortar store – our technology means that you can do this with the minimum of fuss but also enabling high volume sales in what can be less than perfect surroundings – in this case we also supplied mobile chip and pin units for the duration of the show enabling a full range of customer payment options with no risks.”

“This was a great success all round – the Andertons success story moves on.”