Calendars.com Selects Kibo as its New eCommerce Platform

Calendars.com and Kibo embark on a path to personalize customer shopping experiences across its entire family of brands

DALLAS – Nov. 7, 2019 – Kibo, a leader in cloud commerce, today announced it is partnering with Calendars.com to further the online retailer’s digital transformation journey. After a thorough evaluation process of competing solutions, Calendars.com selected Kibo’s eCommerce solution to update the online presence of its brand.

Additionally, Calendars.com plans to expand the use of Kibo to service its umbrella company, Go! Retail Group, as well as its Shopfuego.com brand.

“We set out to find an ecommerce partner who could meet our current digital needs and provide a more comprehensive platform that would allow us to grow and adapt to future business demands,” said Paul Hoffman, CEO, Calendars.com.

“When vetting competing solutions, Kibo’s expansive yet flexible platform stood apart as a comprehensive solution that will enhance our website’s functionality with a mobile-first focus, while reducing the need for external vendors’ add-on services. We look forward to working closely with the Kibo team on this and future implementations.”

“Calendars.com and its family of brands provide customers with a vast selection of calendars, greeting cards, games and
accessories, both online and in stores, and we are proud that they’ve chosen to partner with us as they continue to innovate,” said David Post, CEO, Kibo.

Kibo eCommerce is a cloud-based solution allowing retailers to engage with their customers through seamless shopping experiences, powered by Kibo’s composable commerce architecture. Kibo eCommerce meets the digital needs of online retailers by easily managing merchandising, promotions, and much more. Additional benefits of the solution include:

• Flexibility and Usability: Kibo eCommerce helps merchants maintain agility and pixel-level control with intuitive tools designed for digital teams, allowing them to quickly launch landing pages, promos, navigation, and custom customer journeys with drag-and-drop ease.
• Powerful Catalog Information Management: Kibo eCommerce allows retailers to centrally host, manage and syndicate product data and related content from a single administrative backend, empowering them to sell more efficiently across sites, channels, marketplaces and stores.
• Low Total Cost of Ownership: Kibo’s cloud-based architecture delivers an elevated customer experience without the IT burden that comes from managing software updates, ensuring up-time, or integrating with multiple partners.
• Limitless Innovation: The platform allows retailers to get to market faster and build the experiences customers desire with advanced, out-of-the-box capabilities.

Calendars.com, part of the Go! Retail Group family, was founded in 1999 and is home to the world’s largest selection of calendars. With more than 17,000 products online, Calendars.com also offers a selection of gifts, puzzles, games, and toys. Go! Retail Group, formerly called Calendar Club, was founded by CEO Marc Winkelman in 1993 and is the largest operator of seasonal, mall-based pop-up stores in the world. Go! Retail Group comprises several strong retail brands, including Go!, Calendars.com, Fuego and Attic Salt. In addition to its growing ecommerce operations, the company operates more than 1,000 seasonal retail stores and 150 year-round stores in shopping malls, outlets, and lifestyle centers in the US, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The Go! Retail Group brands have been featured on Good Morning America, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, and many more. Visit them at www.Calendars.com and www.GoRetailGroup.com.

About Kibo

Kibo Commerce is a composable digital commerce platform for retailers, manufacturers, distributors, and wholesalers who want to simplify the complexity in their businesses and deliver modern customer experiences. We are the only modular commerce platform supporting experiences that span Order Management, eCommerce, and Subscriptions. Companies like Zwilling, Ace Hardware, and Coastal Construction trust Kibo to bring simplicity and sophistication to commerce operations and exceed customer expectations.

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