UK-based sportswear manufacturer Umbro has selected the Product Development Company’s (PTC’s) FlexPLM solution for retail, footwear and apparel. It uses Windchill, the company’s web-based content and process management solution, to improve the product development process and to help shorten lead times and reduce development costs.

Approximately 100 personnel within the design and product development teams at Umbro’s UK headquarters and in one of its Hong Kong offices will use the solution.

The company designs, sources and markets football-related apparel, footwear and equipment for professional and amateur soccer players—including national teams—which are sold in over 90 countries.