Island Pacific Announces Strategic Plan to Integrate Product Lines.IRVINE, Calif. -- Island Pacific, Inc. (AMEX AMEX See: American Stock Exchange :IPI (Intelligent Peripheral Interface) A high-speed hard disk interface used with minis and mainframes that transfers data in the 10 to 25 MBytes/sec range. IPI-2 and IPI-3 refer to differences in the command set that they execute. See hard disk. ) announced today a strategic plan to integrate its product lines and unify its processes and operations. This plan is a continuation of Island Pacific's drive towards profitability, with a primary goal to accelerate the achievement of that milestone. As part of this plan, Island Pacific will reduce its workforce by approximately 14% percent or 30 employees worldwide. This reduction will mean approximately $2.7 million in annual savings. The company also announced it is consolidating its accounting and finance team into its Irvine headquarters. "The retail marketplace has evolved and is focusing on an end-to-end multi-channel solution. By closely integrating our product lines, Island Pacific is positioning itself to respond to this challenging environment," said Island Pacific's President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Mike Tomczak Mike Tomczak (born October 23, 1962 in Calumet City, Illinois) is a former American football player. Tomczak played quarterback for several NFL teams including the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Detroit Lions. . Tomczak continued, "We have brought the processes of the three companies more closely together in order to reduce redundant operations. These gains in efficiency include the relocation of the finance and administration group from La Jolla La Jolla (lə hoi`yə), on the Pacific Ocean, S Calif., an uninc. district within the confines of San Diego; founded 1869. The beautiful ocean beaches, in particular La Jolla shores and Black's Beach, and sea-washed caves attract visitors and to our headquarters in Irvine, and the consolidation of the Retail Pro EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. sales management into the established IP UK office. By being located in the same facility, the groups can work more closely together, while saving the cost of maintaining an additional office. In all, our company has made tremendous strides and gained efficiencies which will allow us to operate with less cost. We believe that this plan is a big step toward profitability which will allow us to continue to be competitive." About Island Pacific Island Pacific is a global leader in retail merchandising, store operations, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and multi-channel software solutions. For more than 25 years, Island Pacific has developed a reputation for delivering high-quality, high-value, high-reliability software to the retail industry. As a result, Island Pacific is a definitive resource for scalable, flexible and affordable solutions for retailers around the world. Incorporating the recently acquired Retail Technologies International (RTI RTI - Return from interrupt ) and Page Digital, Island Pacific serves over 9,000 retail clients in more than 70 countries. Represented in more than 55,000 stores worldwide and available in 15 languages, the company's technology manages billions of transactions annually under the brand names of Island Pacific Merchandising System(TM) (IPMS IPMS Fraunhofer-Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System (ITU-T) IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System IPMS Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS International Plastic Modelers Society ), Retail Pro (R), Synaro(R) and Gladiator gladiator (Latin; swordsman) Professional combatant in ancient Rome who engaged in fights to the death as sport. Gladiators originally performed at Etruscan funerals, the intent being to give the dead man armed attendants in the next world. , and is widely regarded as the thought leader in multi-channel retailing. The company is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices in the United States and the United Kingdom, and is represented by business partners in over 30 countries. For more information, please visit www.islandpacific.com and www.retailpro.com. Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or the Company's future performance. These statements are only predictions. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, the risk factors listed in the Company's Form 10-KA for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 and other risk factors identified from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. IPI undertakes no obligation to release publicly any revisions to the forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this news release or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. |
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