Bamboo Rose

Bamboo Rose is a retail product development and supply chain software company headquartered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a second base in Bangalore, India. It is a portfolio company of RUBICON Technology Partners and has grown through acquisitions: Backbone PLM, a design-centric PLM for consumer goods brands, in 2023, the planning suite of UK-based Foresight Retail in September 2024, and Paris-based decision intelligence start-up Verteego, announced in January 2025.

Its current product, TotalPLM, groups modules for planning, creation, development, sourcing and supplier relationship management, ordering, distribution and decision intelligence. The creative module is powered by VibeIQ. The scope reaches past classic PLM into purchase orders and logistics, which suits retailers that want one system from line plan to delivered goods. Grocery cooperative Wakefern Food Corp. selected TotalPLM in March 2025 for own-brand development, sourcing and supplier management, showing use beyond fashion.

Customers of the former Backbone PLM product are moving onto the Bamboo Rose platform; The S Group announced such a migration on 3 October 2024. No public end-of-life date for Backbone was found. Buyers evaluating Backbone today should ask Bamboo Rose about the product's roadmap and migration terms. Public material on sustainability lists an ESG page and a compliance resource centre, but documented features for PPWR packaging declarations or textile Digital Product Passports were not found, so these need confirmation in a demonstration. The platform suits retailers with large sourcing operations and many suppliers.

Bamboo Rose publishes ESG and compliance resource pages, but no documented PPWR, packaging specification or Digital Product Passport functionality was found as of October 2026.