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Centrical and Ocado Retail Ltd Win 2024 Partnership of The Year Award at The Forum Awards Ceremony

Manchester, London, New York, Tel Aviv, 23 April 2024  – Centrical, the performance experience platform for frontline employees, and Ocado Retail Ltd, the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket , have received 2024 Partnership of the Year Award at the 2024 Forum Awards Ceremony Manchester, UK. The award recognises the strength and value of partnerships and collaboration in technology.   

The Ocado and Centrical teams worked in very close partnership, even from before contracts were officially exchanged, and Ocado quickly became a design partner of Centrical from October 2022. During the design partner program, we worked closely together to understand key requirements of Ocado’s Quality program, and how Centrical could support the framework directly within Centrical, allowing Ocado to remove the use of another 3rd party platform. Centrical quickly became a one stop shop for all employee engagement, performance management, rewards and recognition, and quality management, for all levels of the Hub, allowing Mint to become an integral tool to the business.  

On receiving the award Gal Rimon, CEO and Founder at Centrical, said, we partner with our customers to future-proof the experience of employees and their customers, while enabling them to flourish in an ever-evolving industry. Ocado had a sophisticated process, mostly about the structured interaction between employees and managers. We worked together to define that process, and then we created an AI-enabled technology that made this interaction more empathetic, growth-focused to the employee, automated to the manager, and consistent to the organization.” 

Ocado continues to be an employer of choice and has improved performance efficiencies and quality metrics, we are laser-focused on continuing to support Ocado’s key business priorities, initiatives, and ideas on weekly calls sharing best practices and recommendations on how to make them come to life within Mint.   

Daniel Ward, Senior People Development and Quality Manager at Ocado Retail Ltd added, “Working with Centrical this past year has been an absolute pleasure. Having an honest and open relationship with a partner makes achieving our business goals much easier.” 

About Centrical  

Centricalis the Performance Experience Platform, powering best-in-class customer experiences for the world’s leading brands through frontline agent and team alignment, engagement, and performance optimization.The platform provides a unified employee experience powered by gamification and AI that personally guides and inspires the success and growth of every individual through AI-driven performance,coaching andquality management, personalized microlearning,and voice of the employee.   

Centrical was founded in 2013 and serves customers in 150 countries in 40 different languages. Centrical has offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, and London and customers include leading multinational enterprises such as Microsoft, Teleperformance, Webhelp,Synchrony Financial, and more.   

About Ocado Retail Ltd 

Ocado.com (operated by Ocado Retail) is the world’s largest dedicated online supermarket and is a joint venture between Marks & Spencer Group and Ocado Group. Ocado Retail Ltd ranked #1 in the Institute of Customer Service’s Customer satisfaction in 2024 and have 

over 1M active customers benefit from an unbeatable range of over 50,000 products – including big-name brands, more than 5,000 items from the M&S food and drink range and Ocado’s Own-Range – unbeatable service, with more than 97% orders accurate and on-time, and the most sustainable grocery proposition with the lowest levels of food waste (0.6%) of any British grocer. 

Every order is carefully packed in one of seven distribution centres using world-leading software and technology. Shopping is then delivered directly to customers using a network of regional spokes and fleet of delivery vans. Ocado developed the first grocery shopping app in 2010 and continues to develop and innovate to offer customers the best possible experience. 

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