STRATACACHE Announces New Chicago Facility for Research, Support & Product Development
STRATACACHE, the parent company of Carmanah Signs, today announced the purchase of a 100,000 square foot facility in Lisle, Illinois (Chicago), which will house new research and support teams for the digital signage, intelligent display, and sensor systems company. The Chicago location marks the third facility STRATACACHE has acquired in the past year, in order to support the growing global clientele of the STRATACACHE family of companies, adding several hundred highly technical jobs to the US market.
Despite a globally challenging economic environment, STRATACACHE continues to experience rapid growth in providing advanced technology solutions, such as intelligent display and sensor systems, to clients in key verticals including retail, restaurants, banking, entertainment, transportation, and lottery. The new facility, a four-story class A building in the western Chicago suburb of Lisle, was formerly a U.S. headquarters for McCain Foods, Inc. More than a dozen large STRATACACHE customers have headquarters in Chicago, and the new location will allow for enhanced local support, as well as a fully outfitted support lab, meeting room space, and X2O One Room - an immersive collaboration environment for in-person and remote participation created by X2O Media, a STRATACACHE company.
“As STRATACACHE continues to grow, we look forward to tapping the Chicago market for development and engineering talent to further our work on our new mobile platforms, our advanced tablet compute devices as well as key projects in retail self-service systems,” said Chris Riegel, STRATACACHE CEO. “We will be adding significant staff in the new STRATACACHE Chicago center over the next several months and look forward to enabling world class customer interactive solutions designed to help our customers reduce costs and improve sales in this uncertain economic time.”
STRATACACHE provides a full scope of technological solutions to help retailers, marketers, and customer experience teams use intelligent digital display and sensor systems to optimize interaction and engagement with consumers and employees. The new location outside Chicago will allow STRATACACHE to recruit local technical talent and expertise to further the research, development, and business development efforts of hardware and application development.
STRATACACHE acquired a 1.4 million square foot factory in Eugene, OR, in March 2020, and is equipping it as a full 300mm wafer microLED display manufacturing facility. STRATACATCHE made an additional client support investment in a new 1100+ seat Network Operations and Data center in Waterloo, IA, in November 2020.
About STRATACACHE & Carmanah Signs
STRATACACHE delivers in-store retail experience transformation and exceptional customer journeys through a wide array of marketing technology. STRATACACHE powers the largest digital networks for the world’s most recognizable brands, with solutions that enable retailers to learn deeply about their customers' shopping preferences and behaviors, delivering targeted messaging to any digital display.
Carmanah Signs, STRATACACHE’s global Lottery & Gaming Division, develops and delivers in-store marketing technologies including digital sign networks, interactive experiences, retail sensors, and innovative jackpot signs. Carmanah’s retail marketing technologies and data insights help lotteries and casinos transform the player journey, deepen player insights, boost brand equity, and increase sales.
Together, STRATACACHE and Carmanah Signs have over 3.3 million digital media devices and 175,000 Wireless Jackpot Signs at retailers around the world, serving 55+ lottery jurisdictions and 700+ casinos on four continents. As an associate member of five global lottery associations, and an ongoing sponsor and content contributor to numerous lottery industry events, Carmanah Signs is the only digital signage provider committed to the lottery industry at this level.