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Former Tesco Retail Managing Director and Amazon Vice President Neil McCourt joins StrongPoint as strategic advisor

24.4.2024 12:30:01 CEST | StrongPoint | Non-regulatory press releases

(Oslo, April 24, 2024) StrongPoint, a leading provider of retail technology

solutions, is pleased to announce that Neil McCourt has joined the company as a

strategic advisor.

Neil McCourt worked for 22 years at Tesco, the largest grocery retailer in the

UK ending as Retail Managing Director. At Amazon he served as Vice President for

Fulfilment in Europe, where he was instrumental in setting up their grocery

operations across five markets. Neil was also one of the founding members of the

UK Government's Future High Street Forum and Digital Advisory Board.

"We are thrilled to welcome Neil to the StrongPoint team. His extensive

experience from both the in-store and e-commerce grocery worlds across Europe,

and especially the UK, is a great fit for StrongPoint. His advice will be

invaluable as we leverage our recent major successes in the UK and Spain with

Sainsbury's and Mercadona," said Jacob Tveraabak, StrongPoint CEO."

"I am thrilled to be joining StrongPoint. I passionately believe in

StrongPoint's vision and the role technology can play in improving peoples'

lives. StrongPoint has been helping grocery retailers in the Nordics overcome

challenges that are ever more apparent for retailers in the UK and other

European countries, from increased labour costs to finding new ways of creating

safer stores and better shopping experiences. I look forward to supporting

StrongPoint introduce more of their world-leading retail technology solutions to

their strategic key markets," said Neil McCourt.

CONTACTS

* Jacob Tveraabak, CEO StrongPoint ASA, +47 908 21 370,

ABOUT STRONGPOINT

StrongPoint is a grocery retail technology company that provides solutions to

make shops smarter, shopping experiences better and online grocery shopping more

efficient. With over 500 employees in Norway, Sweden, the Baltics, Finland,

Spain, the UK and Ireland and together with a wide partner network, StrongPoint

supports grocery and retail businesses in more than 20 countries. StrongPoint

provides in-store cash management and payment solutions, electronic shelf

labels, self-checkouts, task and labor management software, click & collect

temperature-controlled grocery lockers, in-store and drive-thru grocery pickup

solutions and grocery order picking solutions, both manual and automated.

StrongPoint is headquartered in Norway and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange

with a revenue of approx 1.4bn NOK [ticker: STRO].

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