BioWest and CCG Announce Global Alliance to Drive Greater Efficiency in Bioscience Industry with SAP SMB Solution; Joint Offering Will Provide Best-in-Class ERP and Biochemical Supply for Stem Cell Business.

MIAMI -- BioWest LLC, one of the finest and leading European producers of sera, media and biochemical for cell culture, and Cielo Consulting Group (CCG International), a distribution partner of SAP America, today announced that the company has signed an agreement to implement the SAP Business One software.

BioWest is faced with the need to replace existing management solution and especially optimizing the company's international operations. From collection at sites around the world including shipment from company warehouses around the world, working mainly with personnel guarantees they develop a truly vertically integrated system of production and documentation. BioWest offers the widest variety of sera available in the industry; choose from a broad range of species, countries of origin, applications and pretreatments.

CCG and SAP will provide best practices gained from experience with hundreds of successful implementations of business solutions Bioscience/Biomedical administration systems, education and research organizations of all sizes around the world. Additionally, the collaborative nature of SAP solutions will enable bioscience organizations to manage complex environments by seamlessly integrating a diverse landscape of software systems, including those that manage bioscience capital; financials; quality; environment, quality standard and safety; customer relationships; supply chain and supplier relationships; plant maintenance and facilities.

About BioWest

BioWest was founded in 1987 in the heart of the Loire Valley. For more than 10 years, BioWest was the producer of top quality sera for Boehringer Mannheim (part of Roche Diagnostics). In 1999, Roche decided to end its distribution of the cell culture sera business and hand over the business solution to BioWest. This step marked the beginning of a new era - since then BioWest has been promoting its own brand, "BioWest", directly to end users and through partnerships with specialist distribution companies all over the world.

BioWest specializes exclusively in cell culture products. The company experts are regularly in contact with scientists and authorities to identify and satisfy scientific and regulatory requirements. BioWest is constantly working on creating new ways of improving the production processes to maximize quality. Most stringent quality tests are applied to ensure the highest level of product safety.

BioWest's test procedures have long been known as the strictest in the whole business. Setting such high quality standards, mainly in the field of serum processing, ensures that our production is consistent with CGMP guidelines. (Additional information at http://www.biowest.net.)

About CCG International

CCG is one of South Florida's premier solution providers. CCG offers your organization all the benefits of one of the most successful value-added solution providers in the world, plus the added advantage of a local branch office in the Broward County and Atlanta, GA area.

Founded in the early 1990s, Cielo Consulting Group provides business solutions for emerging companies. CCG International is dedicated to helping the growing companies in Florida by showing companies how having the best of breed solution can save them money and get them to the next level or ahead of their competition. Our total commitment to our customer is proven in how they continue to count on us to support their organizations throughout the years. Since the establishment of Cielo Consulting Group Inc., our team of dedicated professionals has created a methodology that expedites the process involved in the implementation and development of the best business solutions to fit our clients' needs. We provide solutions in the Finance, Distribution and Manufacturing areas. For more information about CCG International, please visit http://www.ccg-int.com/AboutUs.html.

About SAP

SAP is the world's leading provider of business software solutions. SAP(R) solutions are designed to meet the demands of companies of all sizes -- from small and midsize businesses to global enterprises. Powered by the SAP NetWeaver(TM) open integration and application platform to reduce complexity and total cost of ownership and empower business change and innovation, mySAP(TM) Business Suite solutions are helping enterprises around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations. The unique core processes of various industries, from aerospace to utilities, are supported by more than 25 SAP industry solutions. Today, more than 23,400 customers in over 120 countries run more than 79,800 installations of SAP(R) software. With subsidiaries in more than 50 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE under the symbol "SAP." (Additional information at http://www.sap.com.)

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