Toupargel selects ELOmobile to optimize its schedules of deliveries and to improve its quality of service.  ELOmobile equips the 114 agencies and 1000 vehicles Mercedes Sprinter of the group Toupargel with its solutions.

Brest, France, 24/03/2011 : ELOmobile (Vehco group), French leader in solutions to optimize the management of professional vehicles fleets and the Toupargel Group, leader in the sale and the home delivery service of deep-frozen products, announce to have signed an agreement on the deployment of the ELOmobile solution for the 114 Toupargel agencies and its 1000 vehicles Mercedes Sprinter. Thanks to this investment, the Toupargel Group wishes to optimize its schedules of delivery and to improve its quality of service for its customers. The agreement relates more precisely to the embedded equipment made up by the advanced computers of the ELOcom range, with CANBUS interface for the ecodriving, follow-up of the temperatures and 7 inches touch screens to offer an ergonomics to the driver and assistance to simple, convivial and evolutionary navigation. Moreover, the software suite ELOmobile management suite will allow the anticipation of the delays of delivery and the reliabilization of the delivery schedules.

“We chose ELOmobile for its tested solutions in the field of the embedded communication and its concrete experiment to meet our specific needs in term of ergonomics of the applications and optimization of the delivery schedules. The ecodriving solutions of ELOmobile will allow a reduction of the CO2 emissions by a responsible and sustainable driving from our deliverymen, which is in adequacy with the commitments of sustainable development of the Toupargel Group” indicates Roland Tchenio, Chief Executive Officer of the Toupargel Group.

Bernard Charvolin, Director of the Information Systems, adds “we were also allured by the proximity, the listening, the professionalism and the reactivity of the ELOmobile teams, qualities which fall under the spirit of the project. It is a strategic partnership for our Group”.

Frederic Serre, Chief Executive Officer of ELOmobile comments “we are proud to count the Toupargel Group among our new customers in the world of the light vehicles and B2C. That shows once again the capacity of ELOmobile to meet the requirements of specific markets in the world of goods transport and logistics. The signature of this partnership consolidates our position of leader in the deployment of tested solutions which optimize flows of informations. So we offer our customers the relevant tools, which aim at improving their productivity and the quality of their services”.

About the Toupargel Group : The Toupargel Group is specialized in the sale and the home delivery service of food (frozen, fresh, grocer). With 33% of market share, Toupargel has been created in 1947. It is the leader of the home delivery service of deep-frozen products. Today, every month, 1.2 million households trust the 3500 collaborators of the Group to be advised in the choice of their products and to be delivered at home in full safety. The Toupargel Group is side with the compartment C Nyse Euronext Paris. More information: www.toupargelgroupe.fr, www.toupargel.fr and www.placedumarche.fr

About ELOmobile - Vehco group: Since March 2011, ELOmobile and Vehco, the two leaders independent of France and Northern Europe, specialized in fleet management solutions are linked to create a European leader, and to bring the broadest offer of products and services of the market. ELOmobile is the French leader of the logistics and transport fleet management solutions. Created in 1999 within the Technopolis of Brest to decode the tachographs on real time and to allow a complete social management of the truck drivers, ELOmobile became the specialist in the integrated solutions, opened and flexible for the optimization of the fleets of professional vehicles. Vehco, since its creation in 2001 in Gothenburg in Sweden has developed innovating solutions to improve the productivity of the drivers of trucks and buses: ecodriving solutions and simple ergonomics on mobile terminals such as PDA. The strategic combination of the two entities represents a manpower of approximately 100 people with 6 establishments in Europe (Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Norway and Sweden), and 800 customers divided in 11 European countries, that is to say more than 30,000 embedded computers which equip trucks, buses and commercial vehicles. The group offers a service of first order to the transport and industry domains: geolocation and optimization of fleet, social management, ecodriving, management of the orders of transport and rounds, follow-up of the temperatures, follow-up of the trailers, safety of the men, the vehicles and the goods. More information: www.elomobile.com