Business alliance with Singapore-based food technology company, Zeemart

TOKYO, March 1st, 2022 -- WingArc1st Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President, Executive Officer and CEO: Jun Tanaka; "WingArc1st") has formed a business alliance with Zeemart Pte Ltd. (Head Office: Singapore; CEO & Co-Founder: Neeraj Sundarajoo; "Zeemart"), a food and beverage procurement cloud-platform based in Singapore. As the first step in this alliance, Zeemart will on March 1st launch its Zeemart VDR service, which utilizes "MotionBoard", WingArc1st's business intelligence (BI) dashboard that holds the largest share of the Japanese market ^*1

Focusing on Singapore's food and beverage industry, Zeemart's mission is to reduce the cost of goods by addressing the asymmetry in information accessible to suppliers and buyers. The company helps facilitate smooth procurement operations and builds communication between suppliers and buyers through its smartphone applications.

Zeemart is one of Singapore's fastest growing startups and was selected as "20 Hottest Startups of 2019" by the Singapore Business Review. The company participated in the first phase of the Accelerator Program^*2 launched by WingArc1st in 2021, which became the catalyst for this alliance.

Summary of the service "Zeemart VDR" :
Zeemart customers will now have access to richer data dashboards to better manage and optimize their F&B business. Key business metrics such as food costs, food price movements, supplier spending and more will be visualized in interactive charts, providing operators with the ability to monitor procurement activity accurately and easily. For more information, please visit https://www.zeemart.asia/vdr

Quotes:

As "The Data Empowerment Company", WingArc1st will expand our partner networks by collaborating with various companies, both in Japan and globally.

^*1Source: ITR Market View: DBMS/BI Market 2021, Data analysis/reporting market: Sales and market share trends of vendors
^*2WingArc1st is scheduled to launch its next Accelerator Program in April, 2022.For details visit https://www.wingarcaccelerator.com/

■ About Zeemart
Zeemart (Headquarters: Singapore) was founded in 2017 as a food and beverage procurement cloud-platform in Singapore. The company helps builds food supply chains through its mobile applications.
https://www.zeemart.asia/about

■ About WingArc1st Inc.
WingArc1st Inc. (Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan) develops solutions that hold the largest share*¹ of the Japanese market in the data-empowerment fields of form solutions and business intelligence. We have positioned the expansion of our overseas business as one of our growth strategies, and have strengthened our business in the ASEAN region by opening a subsidiary in Shanghai, China in 2009, a subsidiary in Singapore in 2014, and a subsidiary in Melbourne, Australia in 2017.
https://www.wingarc.com/en/index.html