Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. Acquires Garpac Corporation.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 Computer Generated Solutions, Inc. (CGS CGS centimeter-gram-second system. CGS or cgs abbr. centimeter-gram-second system. CGS, c.g.s. ) has announced the acquisition of Garpac Corporation. Garpac is a New York-based developer and provider of enterprise-wide software solutions to the sewn products industry, serving both small and large businesses. The deal was finalized last Friday. In a move to expand its service offerings, CGS will now own Garpac products and technology. CGS will also retain approximately 40 Garpac employees who will remain in Garpac's New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of facility. "This acquisition rounds out our product offerings. In addition to our flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. Optima on the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AS/400, we now have offerings for both the Unix and NT markets" says Phil Friedman, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of Computer Generated Solutions. "Garpac's products have always won respect from the industry for their functionality and technical prowess. These products combined with our product offerings plus CGS' implementation and customer service capabilities are a combination that can't be beat," says Paul Magel, Senior Vice President of CGS' Applications Solutions Division. "We are proud to become part of the CGS team. Their national and international reach will allow the entire industry to now benefit from our combined product lines", says David Roth David Roth (b.1952, New York) is an American magician. David Roth is widely regarded as one of the world's greatest living coin magicians. Roth is known both for tremendous technical mastery and for playful and surrealistic formal performance pieces. former President and founder of Garpac. David will join CGS as a Vice President and report to Paul Magel. Garpac's products include the G/4 Enterprise (a UNIX-based enterprise-wide application), G/400 (supply chain management system running on the IBM AS/400 platform) and its latest offering - Visual Garpac (a platform independent client/server supply chain management software). In business since 1981, Garpac has been considered the pioneer of best practices for sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. technology. Founded in 1984 as a systems integration and management consulting firm to the apparel and fashion industries, Computer Generated Solutions, Inc., is the exclusive provider of ACS Optima(TM), a comprehensive enterprise-wide solution for the sewn products industry. CGS is also a leading provider of information technology services worldwide to industries such as telecommunications, finance, insurance, and entertainment, as well as the US Government. Headquartered in New York, CGS utilizes more than 1500 professionals in 21 locations in the US, Canada and India. CGS is an IBM Premier Business Partner. Additional information is available at www.cgsinc.com. |
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