Softscape, the global leader in people management software, today announced that Luck Stone Corporation, the largest family owned and operated aggregates company in the United States, deployed the Softscape Apex® platform to help execute its workforce initiatives and manage the entire employee lifecycle from hire to retire. From performance, compensation, and learning management, to recruiting, hiring, and core HR management, Luck Stone is leveraging Softscape’s talent-based system of record to achieve a true and complete picture of its workforce and effectively execute business strategies.

From its beginnings as Sunnyside Granite Company in 1923 to the multi-division corporation of today, Luck Stone has become an industry leader through sound planning, innovative thinking, and hard work. The company has grown over the years but has never lost sight of its founder’s commitment to honesty, integrity, quality, and people. The values-based company’s mission is to provide innovative products and services that enhance the lives of its customers, associates, and community.

“At Luck Stone, our focus on meeting our customers’ needs and ensuring quality service and an exceptional buying experience differentiates us from our competitors,” said Michelle Trudeau, Compensation and Benefits Manager at Luck Stone. “It takes hard work, dedication, and creativity. That means remembering every day that the quality of our workforce is the key to maintaining our reputation. As we prepare for improvements in the economy and plan for our future together, we need an HR solution that’s flexible and ready to grow with us. Softscape’s full suite of people management capabilities lets us focus on our people, not paper or processes.”

With inherently integrated and fully configurable software modules for performance, compensation, hiring, learning, and HR management in a single platform, Luck Stone is taking advantage of Softscape’s ability to provide a complete view of its workforce. By integrating Softscape’s core HR management with the more strategic HR functions, Luck Stone consolidates and centralizes the critical employee data needed to analyze its workforce’s effectiveness. Softscape helps Luck Stone effectively execute business strategies to improve productivity, simplify critical work functions, create predictable analysis, and gain competitive advantages. The single people management platform provides the infrastructure for Luck Stone to better manage its staff and make more informed business decisions.

“By streamlining its business processes and creating a consistent measure of its staff’s success, Luck Stone is enhancing its bottom-line and stakeholder value with a solid foundation for the future,” said Dave Watkins, Softscape CEO and co-founder. “Softscape has more than 14 years of experience helping complex, global organizations effectively manage their HR processes. This experience, complemented by our 98% customer retention rate for the last two years, solidifies Softscape’s leadership role in the people management software marketplace.”

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About Luck Stone (www.luckstone.com)

Headquartered in Richmond, Va., Luck Stone Corporation is one of the largest, private, family-owned and operated aggregates company in the U.S. and is the ninth largest producer of crushed stone in the nation. Founded by Charles S. Luck, Jr. in 1923, the company has thrived under the leadership of three generations of the Luck family. Luck Stone is also a leading architectural stone and tennis court supplier with operations in Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland.

About Softscape (www.softscape.com)

Softscape is the global leader in complete people management software that enables organizations to more effectively drive their business performance. Recognized by industry analysts as the most comprehensive strategic human capital management solution, Softscape provides full employee lifecycle management, including a core system of record, in a single, software platform for improved business intelligence. The company offers customers of all sizes and in all industries the most flexibility and choice with multiple purchase, configuration, and deployment options. For more than a decade, Softscape has helped millions of workers across 156 countries be more successful at their jobs while contributing to bottom-line business results. Softscape’s customers represent Fortune 500/Global 500, mid-market, and government organizations, including Barclays (NYSE: BCS; London: BARC), AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN [ADR]; London: AZN), Seagate (NYSE: STX), GKN (London: GKN), Edcon, Dollar Tree (NASDAQ:DLTR), and P&G (NYSE: PG). Softscape is based in Massachusetts with offices in London, Sydney, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Bangkok, Hong Kong, and Johannesburg.

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