Life Europe AB is Scandinavia's leading health food and lifestyle retail chain. The company was established December 2005 and today runs 410 shops in Sweden, Norway and Finland, 80 company-owned and the rest are franchises. The group has 380 employees and posted a consolidated turnover of €171.6 million last year.

The Life brand and stores have a longer history than the mother company. Since its establishment Life has been working with Swedish retail IT partner Bedege to support its core business activities. Already shortly after the turn of the century, Bedege installed LS Retail and Microsoft Dynamics NAV in Life stores. When the retail chain started working to consolidate its network of distributors to become a power nucleus in the Nordic health food and lifestyle market, it required a completely new POS system to take it into the future. Bedege implemented a turnkey solution, agains based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and LS Retail, and this time working on Toshiba TEC hardware.

“Life required a POS system that had a proven track record of fast return on investment (ROI) and a long productive lifecycle,” says Bedege’s managing director Anna-Carin Lensbo.

Now, thanks to its complete POS solution, Life is in a strong position to take its health food and lifestyle stores into the future. “We search for optimal retail coverage with a forward-looking and exciting product range,” says Peter Svorono, the company’s executive vice president of chain operations in Sweden. “Innovative in-store solutions and service concepts are closely linked with an upbeat marketing strategy. All these elements combined create Life, day after day.”